NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS

The 'North Carolina Tar Heels' are the athletic teams for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC"). The name Tar Heel is also often used to refer to individuals from the state of North Carolina, the Tar Heel State. Being the flagship institution of the University of North Carolina system, Chapel Hill is referred to as "University of North Carolina" for the purposes of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The University of North Carolina has won 38 team national championships in six different sports, 9^th all-time, and 51 individual national championships. The women's soccer team has won 19 national championships since 1981; the men's soccer team won the national championship in 2001; the women's basketball team in 1994; the men's basketball team in 1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, and 2005; the men's lacrosse team in 1982, 1986, and 1991; the women's field hockey team in 1989, 1995, 1996, and 1997; the women's team handball team in 2004; and the men's team handball team in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The men's crew team won the 2004 ECAC National Invitational Collegiate Regatta in the varsity eight category [1].
In 1994, the University's athletic programs won the Sears Directors Cup which is awarded for cumulative performance in NCAA competition.
Notable graduates from the athletic programs include Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Lawrence Taylor, Mia Hamm, Davis Love III, Eddie Pope, Roy Williams, B.J. Surhoff, Jeff Reed, Andrew Miller, Daniel Bard and Marion Jones.
UNC's most heated rivalries are with its Tobacco Road counterparts: Duke ''(See UNC-Duke rivalry)'', North Carolina State ''(See UNC-NCSU rivalry)'', and Wake Forest. In recent years, the UNC-Duke basketball series has attracted the most attention. UNC also has a rivalry with Virginia, known as the South's Oldest Rivalry.

Contents

Men's Basketball

Football

History

Women's Soccer

History

Awards

Men's Baseball

Olympians

Baseball

Men's basketball

Women's basketball

Women's cycling

Women's fencing

Men's fencing

Women's field hockey

Men's team handball

Women's team handball

Shooting

Men's soccer

Women's soccer

Women's softball

Men's swimming

Women's swimming

Men's track and field

Women's track and field

Wrestling

Trainers

Team physicians

USOC press officers

Full-time employees

Olympic Broadcasting Organization

See Also

External links

Men's Basketball

Main articles: North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball

'Retired basketball jerseys'
Number	Player	Year
NC	Jack Cobb	1926
20	George Glamack	1941
10	Lennie Rosenbluth	1957
12	Phil Ford	1978
52	James Worthy	1983
23	Michael Jordan	1985
33	Antawn Jamison	1999

North Carolina has enjoyed long success as one of the top basketball programs in the country. Overall, the Tar Heels have won five men's basketball titles: four NCAA championships and one Helms title.
In 1924 the team went 26-0 in an era with no official national championship. In the mid-1930s, the school was retroactively awarded a national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation, an independent organization founded around that time in Los Angeles.
Under coach Frank McGuire, the team won its first NCAA championship in 1957. After McGuire left, legendary coach Dean Smith established the team as a powerhouse in college basketball. While coaching for UNC for over thirty years, Smith set the record for the most wins of any men's college basketball head coach, a record broken in 2007 by Bob Knight. Under Smith, the Tar Heels won two national championships and had numerous talented players come through the program. More recently, the Tar Heels won the national championship in 2005 under coach Roy Williams.

Football

Main articles: North Carolina Tar Heels football

History

'Retired football jerseys'
Number	Player
22	Charlie Justice
46	Bill Sutherland
50	Art Weiner
59	Andy Bershak
98	Lawrence Taylor
99	George Barclay

While not having as long of a sustained successful period as the basketball program, the North Carolina football program has had periods of excellence and several great players pass through the program, including Jeff Saturday, Lawrence Taylor also a hall of famer ,William Fuller, Greg Ellis, Dre Bly, and Julius Peppers.
The program took a step toward possible prominence by hiring former Miami Hurricanes football head coach Butch Davis for the 2007 season, and making the pledge that they would fund the football program to the same extent that their dominant Men's and Women's basketball teams are funded. On February 7, 2007, Butch Davis and staff inked one of the top recruiting classes in North Carolina football history, earning national recognition from the recruiting industry's most influential websites, including Scout.com, Rivals.com and ESPN.com. This class includes some of the nation's most highly sought after recruits including Marvin Austin, Greg Little, Dwight Jones, Mike Paulus and Tydreke Powell.
North Carolina started the Butch Davis era out with a 37 - 14 win on September 1, 2007 over James Madison University.

Women's Soccer

History

North Carolina introduced women's soccer in 1979 as a club sport. At the time, Anson Dorrance coached the men's soccer team and, at the invitation of the university, took on the duties of the women's team. At the time, women's soccer lacked any national organization, but Dorrance and University of Colorado coach Chris Lidstone petitioned the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) to run a national championship. In 1981, the Lady Tar Heels won the second AIAW championship.
In 1982, the NCAA took over responsibility for women's college soccer. Since then, the Lady Tar Heels have dominated the sport, winning championship after championship and placing more players on end of year lists than any other Division One program.

Season-by-Season

Season	Head Coach	Overall Record	Postseason
1979	Anson Dorrance	10-2	-
1980	Anson Dorrance	21-5	AIAW Final Four
1981	Anson Dorrance	23-0	AIAW Champions
1982	Anson Dorrance	19-2	NCAA Champions
1983	Anson Dorrance	19-1	NCAA Champions
1984	Anson Dorrance	24-0-1	NCAA Champions
1985	Anson Dorrance	18-2-1	Runner-Up to George Mason
1986	Anson Dorrance	24-0-1	NCAA Champions
1987	Anson Dorrance	23-0-1	NCAA Champions
1988	Anson Dorrance	24-0-1	NCAA Champions
1989	Anson Dorrance	24-0	NCAA Champions
1990	Anson Dorrance	24-0	NCAA Champions
1991	Anson Dorrance	25-0	NCAA Champions
1992	Anson Dorrance	25-0	NCAA Champions
1993	Anson Dorrance	23-0	NCAA Champions
1994	Anson Dorrance	25-1-1	NCAA Champions
1995	Anson Dorrance	25-1	Final Four
1996	Anson Dorrance	25-1	NCAA Champions
1997	Anson Dorrance	27-0-1	NCAA Champions
1998	Anson Dorrance	25-1	Runner-Up to Florida
1999	Anson Dorrance	24-2	NCAA Champions
2000	Anson Dorrance	21-3	NCAA Champions
2001	Anson Dorrance	24-1	Runner-Up to Santa Clara
2002	Anson Dorrance	21-2-4	Final Four
2003	Anson Dorrance	27-0	NCAA Champions
2004	Anson Dorrance	20-1-2	Third Round
2005	Anson Dorrance	23-1-1	Quarterfinals
2006	Anson Dorrance	25-1	NCAA Champions
'TOTAL OVERALL RECORD: 603-27-18 (.930)'

 

Awards

'National Coach of the Year:'

★ Anson Dorrance - 1982, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006
'ACC Coach of the Year:'

★ Anson Dorrance - 1982, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006
'National Player of the Year (Hermann Trophy):'

★ Shannon Higgins -1989

★ Kristine Lilly - 1991

★ Mia Hamm - 1992, 1993

★ Tisha Venturini - 1994

★ Cindy Parlow - 1997, 1998

★ Cat Reddick - 2003
'ACC Player of the Year:'

★ Mia Hamm - 1990, 1992, 1993

★ Cindy Parlow - 1998
'ACC Offensive Player of the Year'

★ Heather O'Reilly - 2005

★ Yael Averbuch - 2006
'ACC Rookie of the Year:'

★ Tisha Venturini - 1991

★ Cindy Parlow - 1995

★ Laurie Schway - 1996

★ Lindsay Tarpley - 2002
'NCAA Tournament:'

''Tournament MVP'':

★ April Heinrichs - 1984 (''last year overall MVP named'')
''Offensive Player of the Tournament'':

★ April Heinrichs - 1985, 1986

★ Kristine Lilly - 1989, 1990

★ Mia Hamm - 1992, 1993

★ Tisha Venturini - 1994

★ Debbie Keller - 1996

★ Robin Confer - 1997

★ Susan Bush - 1999

★ Meredith Florence - 2000

★ Heather O’Reilly - 2003, 2006
''Defensive Player of the Tournament'':

★ Sue Cobb - 1983

★ Carla Overbeck - 1988

★ Tracy Bates - 1989

★ Tisha Venturini - 1991

★ Staci Wilson - 1994

★ Nel Fettig - 1996

★ Siri Mullinix - 1997

★ Lorrie Fair - 1999

★ Cat Reddick - 2000, 2003

★ Robin Gayle - 2006
'First Team All American:' As of 2006, UNC had 62 players gain first team All American recognition. The next two schools with the greatest number of All Americans were tied with twenty-two each.^{See p. 286}

Men's Baseball

UNC Men's baseball has done very well in recent years reaching the College World Series in both 2007 and 2006 but losing both times to the Oregon State University. The Tar Heels had previously made it to the world series in 1960, 1966, 1978, and 1989, but have never won the World Series.

Olympians

Baseball

★ B.J. Surhoff - 1984

★ Scott Bankhead - 1984

Men's basketball

'Note:' All players and coaches were on the US national team unless otherwise indicated.

★ Larry Brown - 1964, 1980 (assistant coach), 2004 (head coach)

★ Charlie Scott - 1968

★ Bobby Jones - 1972

★ Walter Davis - 1976

★ Phil Ford - 1976

★ Mitch Kupchak - 1976

★ Tom LaGarde - 1976

★ Dean Smith - 1976 (head coach)

★ Bill Guthridge - 1976 (assistant coach)

★ Al Wood - 1980

★ Michael Jordan - 1984, 1992

★ Sam Perkins - 1984

★ J.R. Reid - 1988

★ Henrik Rödl - 1992 ( Germany)

★ Vince Carter - 2000

★ Roy Williams - 2004

Women's basketball

★ Trish Roberts - 1976

★ Sylvia Hatchell - 1988 (assistant coach)

Women's cycling

★ Danute M. Bankaitis-Davis, Ph.D. - 1988

Women's fencing

★ Nhi Lan Le - 1996

Men's fencing

★ John Friedberg - 1992

Women's field hockey

★ Karen Shelton - 1980, 1984

★ Marcia Pankratz - 1988, 1996

★ Leslie Lyness - 1996

★ Cindy Werley - 1996

★ Laurel Hershey - 1996

★ Kelli James - 1996

★ Liz Tchou - 1996

Men's team handball

★ John Keller - 1996

★ Steve Penn - 1996

Women's team handball

★ Chryss Watts - 1996

Shooting

★ Bill Roy - 1996

Men's soccer

★ Eddie Pope - 1996

Women's soccer

★ Laurie Gregg - 1996, 2000 (assistant coach)

★ April Heinrichs - 1996 (assistant coach), 2000 (head coach), 2004 (head coach)

★ Tisha Venturini - 1996

★ Kristine Lilly - 1996, 2000, 2004

★ Mia Hamm - 1996, 2000, 2004

★ Carla Werden - 1996, 2000

★ Staci Wilson - 1996

★ Cindy Parlow - 1996, 2000, 2004

★ Tiffany Roberts - 1996

★ Tracy Noonan - 1996

★ Siri Mullinix - 2000

★ Lorrie Fair - 2000

★ Catherine Reddick - 2004

★ Heather O'Reilly - 2004

★ Lindsay Tarpley - 2004

★ Tracy Bates-Leon - 2004 (assistant coach)

Women's softball

★ Natalie Anter - 2004

Men's swimming

★ Thompson Mann - 1964

★ Phil Riker - 1964

★ Chris Stevenson - 1984

★ Yann DeFabrique - 1992, 1996

★ David Monasterio - 1992

★ David Fox - 1996

Women's swimming

★ Stan Tinkham - 1956 (head coach)

★ Ann Marshall - 1972

★ Janis Hape - 1976

★ Wendy Weinberg - 1976

★ Sue Walsh - 1980

Men's track and field

★ Harry Williamson - 1936

★ Bill Albans - 1948

★ Chunk Simmons - 1948, 1952

★ Jim Beatty - 1960

★ Charles Foster - 1976

★ C.J. Hunter - 1996

★ Ken Harnden - 1996, 2000

★ Allen Johnson - 1996, 2000, 2004

★ Eddie Neufville - 1996, 2000

★ Curtis Johnson - 2000

★ Dominic Demeritte - 2000, 2004

★ Vikas Gowda - 2004

Women's track and field

★ Sharon Couch - 1992, 2000

★ Tisha Waller - 1996, 2004

★ Lynda Lipson - 1996, 2000

★ Joan Nesbit - 1996

★ Marion Jones - 2000, 2004

★ LaTasha Colander-Richardson - 2000, 2004

★ Monique Hennagan - 2000, 2004

★ Nadine Faustin - 2000, 2004

★ Nicole Gamble - 2000

★ Crystal Cox - 2004

★ Shalane Flanagan - 2004

★ Laura Gerraughty - 2004

Wrestling

★ Perrin Henderson - 1956 - 1957

★ Kendall Cross - 1992, 1996

Trainers

★ John Lacey - 1964 (men's basketball trainer), 1972 (head trainer)

Team physicians

★ Tim Taft - 1980

USOC press officers

★ Rick Brewer - 1984

★ Dave Lohse - 1988

★ Frank Zang - 1992, 1994, 1996

Full-time employees

★ Dave Lohse - 1996

★ Chris Schleter - 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004

★ Donald Lockerbie - 1996, 2000, 2004 (organizing committee)

Olympic Broadcasting Organization

★ Kevin Best - 1996, 2000, 2002

See Also

★ UNC-Duke rivalry

External links

★ InsideCarolina

★ ESPN.com - UNC clubhouse