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Carolina Leadership Academy Honors Tar Heel Standouts
The Richard A. Baddour Carolina Leadership Academy identifies and recognizes top leaders each year with the Leader of Distinction Award. Eighteen Tar Heel student-athletes were selected for the honor for 2020-21, but with COVID limiting gatherings in the spring of 2021, Leadership Academy Executive Director Shelley Johnson had to get creative. (
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No. 3 UNC Women's Tennis Match Against No. 4 Georgia Postponed
The women's tennis match between No. 3 North Carolina and No. 4 Georgia scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. in Chapel Hill has been postponed due to COVID protocols within the UGA program. The two programs will attempt to reschedule the match for a later date this spring. The Tar Heels are slated to host the ITA Kick-Off Weekend Jan. 28 and 29. (
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No. 3 UNC Women's Tennis Shuts Out ECU, Campbell
The No. 3 UNC women's tennis team earned its second doubleheader sweep in the last four days with a pair of 7-0 wins over East Carolina and Campbell on Tuesday. The victory over the Pirates set the program record with 51 consecutive home wins. In singles, No. 7 Reilly Tran, No. 19 Fiona Crawley, Sophia Patel, and Sara McClure recorded victories. (
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UNC Women’s Tennis Dominates In Spring Season Openers
The No. 3 North Carolina women’s tennis team flexed its muscles in its first dual matches of the 2022 spring season Saturday, earning sweeps over Elon and Appalachian State in Chapel Hill to start the year 2-0. Reilly Tran, Carson Tanguilig, and Fiona Crawley, each ranked in the country’s top 20 for singles, recorded two victories each on the day. (
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UNC Men's Tennis Gets Off To Strong Start Saturday
UNC opened its 2022 indoor men's tennis season with a strong performance Saturday in Atlanta at the Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational, hosted by Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels picked up a pair of singles wins and swept all three of their doubles matches against players from the University of Illinois. Mac Kiger and Anuj Watane won their singles matches. (
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UNC To Host National Girls And Women In Sports Day Celebration On Feb 6
Young Tar Heel fans pre-K through eighth grade are invited to join the UNC women's sports teams for the 2022 UNC National Girls & Women in Sports Day, an annual event to highlight women's athletics at UNC. The NGWSD celebration is set for Feb. 6 from 10-11:30 a.m. at the
Bill Koman Practice Complex on UNC's campus. There is no charge to participate. (
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Elizabeth Scotty, Cameron Morra Shine For UNC Women's Tennis At Tar Heel Invite
North Carolina welcomed Tennessee this weekend for the Tar Heel Invite. The Tar Heels and Volunteers competed Friday and Sunday at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center. On Friday, Carolina picked up three singles wins over nationally-ranked players. The best match of the day pitted UNC's fifth-ranked
Cameron Morra against No. 14 Rebeka Mertena. (
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UNC Women's Tennis Starts 2022 Ranked No. 3
The North Carolina women's tennis team will begin the 2022 spring season ranked No. 3 in the ITA Collegiate Tennis Preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll released on Wednesday. This marks the fourth straight year the that Tar Heels will begin a season ranked among the top 3 teams in the nation. UNC was ranked third in 2019, No. 2 in 2020, and No. 1 in 2021. (
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Tar Heels Help Make The Holidays Brighter
The holiday season is rife with traditions, and one of the longest running for UNC student-athletes is the Share Your Holidays program. Each year, UNC student-athletes and staff "adopt" families through the Share Your Holidays program. Families provide wish lists and the Tar Heels use those to shop for items that help make the holidays brighter. (
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Elizabeth Scotty's Sensational Season
Three national championships, an ACC Championship, and an appearance at the US Open sounds like a career's worth of accomplishments. Elizabeth Scotty did all that in a span of nine months in 2021. Scotty recently put the finishing touches on her tennis season with a doubles national title at the ITA Fall National Championships in early November. (
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