Tar Heel Trailblazer: Synthia Kearney

Posted Feb 10, 2022
The first African American on the UNC women's soccer team and Gastonia, North Carolina's first female battalion chief, Synthia Kearney will be celebrated this month as a Tar Heel Trailblazer. Kearney is the second member of her family to receive this honor, joining her youngest brother, the late Stuart Scott, as the first siblings to be named Tar Heel Trailblazers. (GoHeels.com)

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