Total Tar Heels: March 5, 2019

Total Tar Heels news digest provides a look at UNC student-athlete accomplishments and activities outside of athletic competition.

STUDENT-ATHLETE LIFE

• Kelly McFarlane, a 2014 UNC graduate who captained the women's soccer team while at Carolina, has been selected for a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship to fund graduate work at Stanford, where she will pursue an MBA. She is currently enrolled at Harvard Medical School and will take time away from her studies there to go to Stanford.

She was one of 68 students selected for the cohort, out of 4,400 applicants. She's the second UNC student to win the Knight-Hennessy, and the other was also a student-athlete. Sasha Seymore, who played for the men's basketball team, was a member of the inaugural cohort in 2018.

Click here for more and check out the video below for a look at her impact while at Harvard.

• Another women's soccer alum, Lorrie Fair Allen, is program director for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project and says "Anson [Dorrance] builds leaders. His biggest hope is that that extends beyond the soccer field. I'm really proud of being a Tar Heel."

Click here for more on Allen.

• The DTH recently ran a feature on Patrick Lyons, a junior on the men's lacrosse team, and his involvement on campus (which includes a stint as a student representative on UNC's Faculty Athletics Council). Check the story out here.

• Carolina Athletics is celebrating Women's History Month with a series of features. Click here for a video on Karen Shelton's impact on the young women in the Tar Heel field hockey program.

If you haven't already seen it, here's another great piece – part of the Carolina Stories series – about Shelton and her legacy.

ACADEMICS

• Four Tar Heels were announced last week as recipients of ACC Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Awards. Blaine Boyden (men's tennis), Morgan Goetz (field hockey) and Luke Maye (men's basketball) received $6,000 scholarships for graduate school. Alex Comsia (men's soccer) received an honorary award, which go to deserving student-athletes who plan to pursue professional athletic careers.

In addition to excelling academically, all four competed at the highest levels while at UNC, playing in their sports' championship game or match at least once. Goetz and Maye were on NCAA Championship teams, and Boyden and Comsia both were NCAA runners-up.

• Twenty-six student-athletes have been named Athletic Director's Scholar-Athletes for 2018-19. The award goes annually to a junior or senior student on each team who has earned academic distinction. (Indoor and outdoor track are combined, thus 26 honorees even though UNC has 28 sports.)

Gary Wayne Harding is one of this years Athletic Director's Scholar-Athletes! Congrats G Dub. #UNCommon #TogetherWeWin pic.twitter.com/6VpTR8WKKH
— UNC Wrestling (@UNCWrestling) February 23, 2019

"They've all worked really hard academically and athletically, and we expect great things from them as they graduate and move on to their chosen fields," UNC Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham said.

Those who were in town (several were competing that day) were honored at the men's basketball game on Feb. 23.

• One day after scoring 30 points and pulling down 15 rebounds in Carolina's 88-72 win at top-ranked Duke, senior forward Luke Maye was named to Google Cloud's Academic All-District 8 team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Among all the great Tar Heel players, Luke Maye is the FIRST to score 30 points at both Duke and NC State in his career. #CarolinaSZN pic.twitter.com/gOUNzUxveL
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) February 21, 2019

At Duke, Maye became the second Tar Heel to score 30 or more points and grab 15 or more rebounds in the 249-game history of the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry. He also became the first Tar Heel ever to score 30 points in his career at both NC State and Duke (he had a career-high 33 in Raleigh a year ago).

Based on his All-District honor, Maye is in the running for Academic All-America honors, to be announced later this month. He was named to the second team a year ago.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

• Field hockey partnered with Vs. Cancer to raise money this fall, then visited UNC Lineberger Cancer Center to see how the funds actually impact patients.

By participating in a #PBTF fundraiser, you make an impact on the lives of kids w/ #braintumors. In 2018, 268 @Vs_Cancer teams helped fund grants at 44 #childrenshospitals, helping patients through free programs such as family outings, art therapy & camps. https://t.co/E0COy01suG pic.twitter.com/GlLRqnTrB6
— Ped Brain Tumor Fdn (@PBTF) February 28, 2019

STUDENT-ATHLETE WELL-BEING

• Student-athletes participated in Mental Health Ted Talks on Feb. 27, sharing their stories and sparking conversation around mental health and wellness. Look for more on that outstanding event in the next TTH!

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Shout out to these student-athletes for sharing their mental health stories and how they are #MoreThanATarHeel 💪🧠

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