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Lucas: Fighting Together

The Dribble for Victory Over Cancer has become an integral part of the Carolina Basketball calendar and is an easy way for fans to interact with Tar Heel standouts. Sunday's attendees included the complete rosters of the men's and women's basketball teams, and players and/or coaches from gymnastics, softball, lacrosse, cheer, mascot, and band. (GoHeels.com)

Audio: 100 Years of Kenan Stadium - Dancing the Night Away

The UNC spirit squads are an integral part of any Kenan Stadium gameday. That includes the UNC Dance Team, which includes Chatham County Public Information Officer Kara Lusk among its distinguished alumnae. Lusk, a Cary native who grew up a Tar Heel fan, remembers the nerves and emotions that went into her first performance on the Kenan grass. (Chapelboro.com)

This former Rameses is on a Rampage

Alex Floch grew up playing sports and never envisioned doing anything else. At UNC, he found a way to do that: Become a mascot. He was Rameses for three years and is now entering his ninth season as Rampage, the Los Angeles Rams mascot. The role has taken him everywhere from the Super Bowl to Australia, where the Rams kick off on Sept. 10. (UNC.edu)

Video: Meet Seamus the ram, who greets UNC football fans in Ireland

Orla Hogan, an Irish farmer, describes the experience of introducing Seamus, the ram, to University of North Carolina fans who are in Dublin, Ireland for the UNC-TCU football game on August 29, 2026. Seamus is wearing Rameses' UNC blanket and Carolina Blue horns. (Yahoo! News)

UNC's 'Carolina Girls' dance team step up the spirit

Along with the sounds of the band and fans wearing Carolina Blue at UNC football and basketball games, the Carolina Girls dance team brings the energy to hype up the crowds. The Carolina Girls dance and cheer at games while also participating in community events like blood drives, dance classes, and hospital visits with Carolina for the Kids. (UNC.edu)

Rameses goes to grad school

Alex Henson was working at Meantime Coffee Co. when another campus job piqued his interest. “You could be me,” read the poster with a picture of Carolina mascot Rameses that he saw in Craige Residence Hall. Four years later, Henson now knows all about what being Rameses entails. Henson relished game days and crowd-surfing the student section. (UNC.edu)

Video: A Century of Rameses at Carolina

100 years can be measured in 10 decades, one century or, in Carolina's case, 22 Rameses. University Archivist Nick Graham takes a look at how Rameses became Carolina's mascot, with a reign that extends from Rameses I making his debut on November 8, 1924 all the way through Rameses XXII, who sits on the throne today. (View Video)

Audio: Former UNC, Duke mascots talk about life behind the mask

Many schools ask their mascots to remain anonymous until they hang up their costumes. Fortunately, co-host Jeff Tiberii got the chance to talk to two recent graduates – UNC’s Daniel Wood and Duke’s Cate Schick and – who were both mascots for several years, including in 2022, the year of the the Tar Heels' Final Four victory over the Blue Devils. (WUNC)

The Story Of Rameses

Eric Chilton remembers the day Rameses came to Carmichael Arena for the first time during a basketball game in the 1987-1988 season. A senior studying broadcast journalism at the time, he recalls a lot of the details, though none too vividly. As the man inside the Rameses costume, his only view was through a 6-inch hole in Rameses’ mouth. (UNC.edu)

Student behind UNC's Rameses mascot for 4 years set to graduate

It's the end of an era for UNC student Daniel Wood. Set to graduate from UNC with a degree in sport administration Sunday, Wood will also say goodbye to his role as Rameses, the school mascot. A Huntersville, NC native, Wood stepped into the role of Rameses went he arrived at UNC. He knew that it was something he wanted from the beginning. (WFMY)

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