Tar Heel Trailblazer: Sharon Couch-Fikes
Posted Feb 15, 2016
In 1991, Sharon Couch-Fikes became the first African-American to win the Patterson Medal, Carolina's highest athletic honor. The next year, she became the first track athlete from UNC to compete at the Olympic Games, in Barcelona. Twenty-four years later, she has been named a Tar Heel Trailblazer.
(GoHeels.com)
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