UNC's 28-Sport Program

SPORT-BY-SPORT HISTORICAL BRIEFS (updated August 5, 2025)

Baseball
Scott Forbes, the 2024 ACC Coach of the Year, is in sixth season as head coach • Played in the NCAA Tournament 37 times with 12 appearances in the College World Series • The first ACC school to play in four consecutive College World Series (2006-09) • Won nine ACC Tournament championships, including 2025 • Prominent players include Major League All-Stars Andrew Miller, Matt Harvey and Kyle Seager, B.J. Surhoff (19 MLB seasons), 1988 American League Rookie of the Year Walt Weiss, Brian Roberts, Adam Warren, Dustin Ackley, Zac Gallen and Michael Busch • Miller led UNC to the 2006 CWS and was the American League Championship Series MVP in 2017 • Ackley set the CWS record for base hits •  Mike Fox retired following the 2020 season as the winningest coach in Carolina history and seventh in NCAA history with 948 wins • In 2024, UNC became the eighth program in NCAA history with 3,000 wins • In 2024, Vance Honeycutt led UNC back to the College World Series while becoming the program's all-time home run leader • Honeycutt became the first Tar Heel baseball player to earn first-team All-America and first-team Academic All-America honors • In 2025, Jake Knapp returned from Tommy John surgery to win all 14 of his decisions and win National Pitcher-of-the-Year honors.

Parker Haskin University of North Carolina Baseball v West Virginia Boshamer Stadium Chapel Hill, NC Saturay, June 8, 2024

Men's Basketball
Won NCAA championships in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017 (the Helms Foundation declared the 1924 team national champions) • Won 33 ACC regular-season championships (12 more than any other school) and 18 ACC Tournament championships • Played in a record 21 Final Fours • No. 1 in NCAA Tournament wins, No. 1 all-time in ACC victories and No. 3 in all-time wins • Fourteen Naismith Hall of Fame players and coaches, the most players elected to the Hall of Fame • More first-team All-ACC selections (80) than any other school and the second-most U.S. Olympians (14) • Third all-time in first-round NBA Draft picks (55), including Drake Powell in 2025 • Tar Heels have won 36 NBA championships as players, more than any other college's alumni • Eleven players have won national player-of-the-year honors in 13 seasons • Prominent players include Hall of Famers Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Billy Cunningham, Bob McAdoo, Charlie Scott, Bobby Jones, Vince Carter and Walter Davis, Tyler Hansbrough, the ACC's all-time leading scorer, Phil Ford, Sam Perkins, Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith, Antawn Jamison, Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, Lennie Rosenbluth, Justin Jackson, Joel Berry II, Armando Bacot and RJ Davis • Jordan was named the Greatest Athlete of the 20^th Century by ESPN • Five Hall of Fame coaches, including Dean Smith, Roy Williams, Frank McGuire, Larry Brown and Ben Carnevale • Smith won 13 ACC Tournament titles, took teams to 11 Final Fours and won 879 games, the all-time record when he retired • Smith coached more players inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame than any other coach • Williams won three NCAA titles, 903 games (the third-most Division I wins all-time), nine ACC regular-season championships and three ACC Tournaments and led UNC to five Final Fours • Former Tar Heel guard Hubert Davis became the program's first Black head coach in 2021 and became the fifth individual to lead his team to the national championship game in his first season as a head coach • Davis, the 2024 ACC Coach of the Year, is in his fifth season as head coach • Davis has led UNC to a Final Four (2022), a regular-season ACC championship (2024) and a No. 1 NCAA seed (2024), UNC's 18^th, the most in NCAA Tournament history.
 
Women's Basketball
The 2025-26 season is Courtney Banghart's seventh as head coach • Banghart is the fourth head coach in the program's history • Won the 1994 NCAA championship • Played in the NCAA Tournament 32 times • The Tar Heels notched their 53rd NCAA Tournament win in 2025 with a second-round victory over West Virginia – Carolina is one of just seven programs with 32 or more NCAA Tournament trips and one of 10 programs with 50 or more tournament wins • UNC has made three Final Four appearances (1994-2006-2007) • Nineteen trips to the Sweet 16, including 2025 • Nine ACC Tournament championships, most recently in 2008 • Won more conference titles than any other current ACC school • Two retired jerseys: No. 23 for Charlotte Smith (1992-95) and No. 12 for Ivory Latta (2004-07) • Twenty-one players picked in the WNBA draft, including Stephanie Watts, who in 2021 became the ninth Tar Heel selected in the first round • LaToya (Pringle) Sanders helped the Washington Mystics to a WNBA Championship in 2019, becoming the fourth Tar Heel to win a WNBA title • Others are Nikki Teasley (Los Angeles, 2002), Camille Little (Seattle, 2010) and Erlana Larkins (Indiana, 2012) • Former head coach Sylvia Hatchell was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 • Hatchell was National Coach of the Year three times and won 751 in 33 seasons at Carolina (1986-2019).

Men's Cross Country
The 2025 cross country season is head coach Chris Miltenberg's seventh at UNC • Fifteen individual ACC champions, most by any school, including Parker Wolfe in 2023 • Jack Milne won the NCAA champion in 1947 • Eleven NCAA Championship team appearances, including each of the last four seasons • Eight top-20 finishes at the NCAA meet, including three straight top 10s (10^th in 2022 and sixth in both 2023 and 2024) • Highest NCAA finish was fifth in 1985 • Won 10 ACC and 13 Southern Conference team championships • In 2023, UNC won its first ACC cross country title since 1985 • Tar Heels have earned 13 All-America honors, most recently in 2024 by Ethan Strand and Wolfe • Wolfe was the ACC Freshman of the Year in 2021, the ACC Runner of the Year in 2022 and 2023 and is the only Tar Heel to earn All-America honors four times in cross country • Other prominent alumni include Jim Beatty (former world record holder in the indoor mile and two miles, first person to run a sub-4:00 mile indoors), Reggie McAfee (first African-American to run sub-4:00 in the mile) and Tony Waldrop (former world record holder in the indoor mile).

Parker Wolfe
 
Women's Cross Country
Women's Cross Country
The 2025 cross country season is head coach Chris Miltenberg's seventh at UNC • Eight ACC champions (second-most among ACC schools) • Shalane Flanagan won NCAA championships in 2002 and 2003 • Eighteen NCAA Championship team appearances, including 14^th-place finishes in both 2020 and 2021 and the best finish in program history, fifth, in 2022 • UNC has had 12 top-20 finishers in the national championship • Four ACC championships • Flanagan is a four-time Olympian, an Olympic silver medalist, American record holder in the indoor 3,000m, indoor 5,000 and outdoor 10,000m and New York City Marathon champion • Tar Heels have earned 23 All-America honors, including Brynn Brown and Taryn Parks in 2024 • Tar Heels won back-to-back ACC Freshman-of-the-Year honors in 2020 and '21, with Sasha Neglia winning in 2020 and Brown in 2021.
 
Men's and Women's Fencing
Matt Jednak, the 2024 ACC Men's Fencing Coach of the Year, is in his sixth season as head coach • In 2024, Jednak led the men to their first ACC championship since 1980, the ninth in program history • Jednak is the program's second head coach, following a 52-year career by Ron Miller, who retired in 2019 with 1,603 wins • In 2021, Jednak led Carolina to a sixth-place finish at the 2021 NCAA Championship, the highest in program history • A Tar Heel alum, Jednak won 2019-20 ACC Women's Fencing Co-Coach-of-the-Year honors • UNC has sent at least one qualifier to the NCAA Championship every year in the program's history, including Sophia Kovacs, Elden Wood, Brayden Gryue and Peter Bruk in 2025 • Kovacs earned All-America honors for the third consecutive year • Carolina has finished in the top 30 in each of the last 33 NCAA Championships (combined men's and women's results), including 22 times in the top 20 and twice in the top 10 – eighth in 1991 and sixth in 2021 • The Tar Heels won their first ACC women's championship in 2018 • Georgina Summers was the 2018 ACC Championship MVP, Jackie Litynski was named ACC Women's Sabre Fencer of the Year and Miller was the ACC Men's and Women's Coach of the Year • John Friedberg won the NCAA men's sabre championship in 1983 • Carolina won eight of the first 10 ACC men's fencing championships • After 1980, there was a 34-year hiatus in ACC fencing competition before conference competition was re-established (and women's competition was added) in 2015. 

Field Hockey
The 2025 season is the third as head coach for Erin Matson, formerly the most decorated player in the history of the program • UNC has won an NCAA-record 11 national championships (1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023) and 27 ACC titles, including the last eight in a row • The 27 ACC championships are the most by any Tar Heel team • This is the eighth season Carolina has played in Karen Shelton Stadium • Seven Tar Heels have earned National Player-of-the-Year honors on nine occasions: Leslie Lyness (1989), Cindy Werley (1996, 1997), Rachel Dawson (2007), Katelyn Falgowski (2011), Ashley Hoffman (2018), Erin Matson (2019, 2020, 2022) and Ryleigh Heck (2023) • Matson became just the second player to win field hockey's Honda Sport Award three times –Shelton, who starred at West Chester, was the first • In 2022, Matson became the ACC's all-time leader in points and goals • Shelton retired after winning the 2022 NCAA title as the winningest coach in the sport's history, leading the Tar Heels to 745 victories in 42 seasons • Shelton became the sport's wins leader on Nov. 6, 2020 with her 701^st win • UNC has reached the national semifinals in 15 of the last 16 years and 28 times overall • The Tar Heels have made 41 NCAA Tournament appearances and won 85 NCAA Tournament games, both records • Over the years, Carolina has contributed heavily to U.S. National Team rosters – three players on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team were Tar Heel alums.

The Tar Heels celebrate capturing the 2023 field hockey NCAA championship.
 
Football
The Tar Heels are under the direction of first-year head coach Bill Belichick, who was hired in December 2024 • Carolina has played in six consecutive bowl games, including the Orange Bowl following the 2020 season, and 39 overall • Won five ACC Championships (1963, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1980) and three ACC Coastal Division titles (2012, 2015, 2022) • Won a school-record 11 games three times (1972, 1980 and 2015) and 10 or more eight times • Ten College Football Hall of Fame members, including seven players and three coaches • Defensive end Julius Peppers was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2024 • The top three winningest coaches are Mack Brown (113 victories, 12 bowl game appearances over 16 seasons), Dick Crum (72) and Bill Dooley (69) • Running back Omarion Hampton earned first-team All-America honors in 2023 and 2024 (the first UNC back to accomplish that since Charlie Justice in 1948-49) and was the 22^nd pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft by the L.A. Chargers • Hampton was the 26^th Tar Heel selected in the first round • Quarterback Drake Maye was drafted third overall by New England in the 2024 NFL Draft • In 2022, Maye became only the second player in ACC history to sweep ACC Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year and Offensive Rookie of the Year awards, and was named the National Freshman of the Year • From 2019-21, Sam Howell set 27 program records and became Carolina's all-time leader in total offense, passing yards, passing yards per game, passing touchdowns, touchdowns responsible for and pass efficiency rating • Other prominent players include Justice (Heisman Trophy runner-up and Walter Camp Player of the Year), Lawrence Taylor (arguably the greatest defensive player in NFL history), Peppers (Lombardi and Bednarik Award winner), Dre' Bly (the only three-time first-team All-America in ACC history), Don McCauley (broke O.J. Simpson's single-season NCAA rushing record), Art Weiner, William Fuller and Kelvin Bryant • The program has produced the top five APR scores in program history over the last five years.

Men's Golf
The 2025-26 season is Andrew DiBitetto's ninth as head coach – he was the ACC Coach of the Year in 2022, 2023 and 2024, just the second to win the award three straight seasons • Carolina has 25 top-10 finishes in the NCAA Championship, including second in 1953 and 1991 • UNC finished third in 1993 and 2023, fourth in 1960 and 1984 and fifth in 1978, 2021, 2022 and 2024 • Fifth-place finishes in 2021, 2022 and 2024 and third in 2023 mark the best four-year period in NCAA Championship play in UNC history • In 2024, UNC tied the school record with seven tournament wins, won the ACC Championship and became the first program in ACC history to have all five starters earn all-conference honors • The Tar Heels are one of three teams to advance to match play in four consecutive NCAA Championships • In 2025, David Ford won the Haskins and Nicklaus Awards as the National Player of the Year, his ACC Player-of-the-Year award, became the first Tar Heel men's golfer to earn first-team All-America honors twice and won PGA TOUR University • He set the UNC record with five wins as a senior and tied Dustin Bray's mark with seven career wins • In 2024, Austin Greaser became the first Tar Heel to win two NCAA regionals and the first golfer to win a Patterson Medal • Four Tar Heels earned Golf Coaches Association All-America honors in 2023 for the first time in UNC history • Peter Fountain was medalist at the 2021 ACC Championship and became the first UNC freshman to earn first-team All-America and All-Jack Nicklaus Team honors • The Tar Heels have won 118 team events, including 12 ACC titles • Carolina golfers have won two NCAA championships among 135 individual titles • Harvie Ward won the college championship in 1949 and John Inman won in 1984 • Ryan Burnett tied for second in a playoff at the 2022 NCAA Championship • Greaser was runner-up in the 2021 United States Amateur • Davis Love III is a World Golf Hall of Famer, two-time U.S. Ryder Cup captain, led the Tar Heels to three top-10 NCAA finishes and two ACC titles from 1982-84 and won 21 PGA Tour events, including the 1997 PGA Championship • Ford and Bray hold the UNC record with seven collegiate wins followed by Love and Pat Moore with six, and Inman, Greg Parker and John Hughes with five apiece • Ford, Bray and Greaser are the only four-time All-ACC honorees.
 
Women's Golf
The 2025-26 season is Aimee Neff's fifth as head coach • Neff is the sixth head coach in program history, following Dot Gunnells (1974-93), Sally Austin (1993-2009) and Jan Mann (2009-21) • In Neff's first four seasons, Krista Junkkari, Kayla Smith and Megan Streicher established the lowest single-season scoring averages in UNC history, while first Smith and then Streicher set the career scoring record • Carolina has won 51 team tournament championships (five in the last two seasons), including two ACC championships • Two individual ACC champions (Debbie Doniger and Meaghan Francella) • Made 22 appearances in the national championship (five AIAW, 17 NCAA) and played in 30 NCAA regionals • Twenty-two All-America selections, including Streicher in 2025 • Prominent alumni include Suzy McGuire Whaley (qualified for PGA Tour event, president of the PGA) Mindy Moore (senior vice president of professional development, LPGA), Donna Andrews (six LPGA Tour wins with one major championship), Marcy Newton (two-time All-America and 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur champion) and two-time All-Americas Katie Peterson and Ashley Prange.
 
Gymnastics
Danna Durante is in her fifth season as head coach • Finished 2025 ranked in the top 25 (24th) for the fourth time in program history and earned a team bid to the postseason for the second time in three years • Lali Dekanoidze earned All-America and ACC Specialist-of-the-Year honors, JoJo Valahovic was named ACC Newcomer of the Year and Durante was tabbed ACC Co-Coach of the Year • Kaya Forbes competed on vault in the 2025 NCAA Championships, the first Tar Heel to earn a bid since 2018 • Competed in its inaugural ACC season in 2024 • Previously competed in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) • Durante led the team to back-to-back undefeated regular-season EAGL titles in 2022 and 2023 • In 2022 and 2023, Durante guided the team to its first regional berths since 2017 • Derek Galvin directed the program from 1982-2020 • Produced five All-Americas • Courtney Bumpers won NCAA floor exercise championships in 2004 and 2005 • Won five EAGL championships • Made 22 NCAA regional appearances as a team • More than 150 Scholastic All-Americas.

Men's Lacrosse
Joe Breschi is in his 18th-season as the head coach • Tar Heels have won five NCAA championships, most recently in 2016, when UNC became the first unseeded team to win the title, beating top-ranked Maryland 14-13, in overtime • UNC won 1981, 1982, and 1986 NCAA titles under National Lacrosse Hall of Fame head coach Willie Scroggs and the 1991 title under Dave Klarmann • 14 ACC regular-season championships, most recently in 2025, and nine ACC Tournament titles • National Players of the Year include Tom Sears in 1982, Tom Haus in 1986 and Dennis Goldstein in 1991 • Fifty-two Tar Heels have been named first-team USILA All-Americas and 133 have earned All-ACC honors • Chris Gray was a first-team All-America in 2021 after setting a single-season school-record with 91 points • Gray is the NCAA's all-time leading scorer with 401 points, and became the first UNC player to win the USILA Lt. Col. J.I. (Jack) Turnbull Outstanding Attackman of the Year award in 2021 and 2022.

Women's Lacrosse
Won NCAA titles in 2013, 2016, 2022 and 2025 • Jenny Levy is the only head coach in program history (beginning in 1996) and was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2021 and the IWLCA Hall of Fame in 2025 • A eight-time ACC Coach of the Year and four-time National Coach of the Year, Levy is the second-winningest coach in NCAA Division I history, is second among active DI head coaches and the winningest coach in ACC history • Levy served as head coach of the U.S. National Team from 2017-22, leading Team USA (including six Tar Heels) to the world championship gold medal in 2022 • UNC won a program-record 22 games as undefeated national champions in both 2022 and 2025 • Made 26 NCAA Tournament appearances in 30 seasons, including 20 straight, playing in six championship games • Has 14 NCAA semifinal appearances, the third most in NCAA history • Advanced to at least the national semifinals in 11 of the last 16 seasons • Won eight ACC championships (2002, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2025), including a league-record six in a row from 2016-22 (no tournament in 2020 due to the pandemic) • Won 11 ACC regular-season championships • Three Honda Award winners (Kara Cannizzaro in 2023, Jamie Ortega in 2022, Chloe Humphrey in 2025) • Sixteen National Players of the Year, 70 All-Americas, a Tewaaraton Award winner, 13 Tewaaraton Award finalists, 11 ACC Players of the Year and 125 All-ACC selections • Ortega graduated in 2022 as UNC's first five-time All-America, including a four-time first-team pick • Ortega is the ACC's career points leader and ranks second in NCAA history • Katie Hoeg earned four All-America honors, including three first team, is the ACC's career assist leader and ranks second in NCAA history • Ashley Humphrey set the NCAA record for career assists with 258 • In 2025, Chloe Humphrey won the program's first Tewaaraton Award after setting the NCAA record for goals by a freshman with 90.

Jamie Ortega University of North Carolina Women's Lacrosse v Boston CollegeNational FinalJohns Hopkins UniversityHomewood FieldBaltimore, MDSunday, May 29, 2022

Rowing
Former All-America Erin Neppel returned to her alma mater as head coach in 2021 • Neppel was a two-time All-ACC rower in 2000 and 2001 and earned second-team All-America honors in 2001 • Became UNC's 28th varsity sport in 1997 • The Tar Heels won an NCAA bronze medal in the 4+ in 1998, the program's first year of competition • Neppel is one of three UNC All-Americas and one of three Tar Heel rowers who have earned All-ACC honors multiple times • Lisy McIntee (2nd team in 2007 and 2008) and Dana Peirce (2nd team in 2001) also were All-Americas • McIntee earned All-ACC honors in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and Megan McMullin was all-conference in 2009, and 2010 • Joel Furtek was Carolina's first head coach and Sarah Haney led the program for 18 seasons • Emilie Gross and Thomas Revelle were co-interim head coaches from 2019-21 • Kristen Siermachesky, a grad transfer from New Liskeard, Ontario, was named 2022 ACC Newcomer of the Year, the first Tar Heel to win the award • Siermachesky competed for Canada in the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Men's Soccer
Carlos Somoano is in his 15th season as head coach and 24th on the UNC coaching staff • Somoano led the Tar Heels to the 2011 NCAA title, becoming the second rookie head coach in NCAA history to win a national championship • NCAA titles in 2001 and 2011 among its 31 NCAA Tournament appearances • Nine trips to the College Cup, including four straight from 2008-11 • Three ACC championships (1987, 2000, 2011) • Forty players have combined for 51 All-America selections • Five ACC Players of the Year and eight ACC Rookies of the Year • Four ACC Scholar-Athletes of the Year • Sixty-four MLS signings, including 22 first-round selections • Gregg Berhalter served as the USMNT head coach for the 2022 FIFA World Cup • Eddie Pope played in the 1996 Olympics and 2002 World Cup, was a five-time MLS all-star and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2011.

Women's Soccer
The Tar Heels won their 22^nd NCAA championship (and 23^rd national title, which includes the 1981 AIAW championship) in 2024 with a 1-0 win over Wake Forest on a second-half goal by Olivia Thomas • Damon Nahas replaced Hall of Famer Anson Dorrance as head coach three days before the start of the 2024 season • Dorrance retired after serving as the only head coach since the program began in 1979 • Dorrance led UNC to a record of 934-88-53 with 22 national championships, six national runner-up finishes, 31 College Cups, 25 regular-season ACC championships and 22 ACC Tournament titles • UNC has five unbeaten and untied seasons (1981, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2003) • The 22 NCAA championships are the most by any women's program and third-most by any men's or women's program in NCAA Division I history • Dorrance's 21 titles are more than any coach in NCAA history in a single sport • Led by National Player of the Year Kate Faasse (Honda Award and Hermann Trophy), the Tar Heels played in the College Cup in 2024 for a record 32nd time • Faasse became the 20^th Tar Heel to win National Player-of-the-Year awards 28 times, including three-time honoree Parlow (1996-98) • UNC players have earned 102 first-team All-America awards • Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly are members of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and join Dorrance, April Heinrichs, Tisha Venturini Hoch, Carla Werden Overbeck and Cindy Parlow Cone in the National Soccer Hall of Fame • Other prominent players include Crystal Dunn, Emily Fox, Tobin Heath, Lori Chalupny, Shannon Higgins, Heather O'Reilly, Lindsay Tarpley, Staci Wilson, Robin Confer, Catherine Reddick and Janet Rayfield • Hamm was named the Greatest Female Athlete in the ACC's first 50 years in 2004 • Hamm set the UNC career scoring record with 278 points • More than 30 years later she is still ranked in the top four in NCAA history in goals, assists and points, is the NCAA's single-season points leader with 97 in 1992 and is the USWNT's all-time scoring leader • UNC set the NCAA record for consecutive games without a loss at 103 from 1986-90 and had another 101-game unbeaten streak from 1990-94 • Has the four-longest winning streaks in NCAA history at 92, 46 and 36 (twice) games • UNC student-athletes have represented U.S. Teams which won 1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019 World Cups and 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2024 Olympics • Dunn and Fox won gold medals in the 2024 Olympics in Paris – they were the 13^th and 14^th Tar Heels to win a combined 21 Olympic gold medals.

Softball
Megan Smith Lyon, a Carolina softball alumni and former assistant coach, is in her third season as head coach • In 2025, she led the Tar Heels to their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2019 • NFCA Hall of Famer Donna J. Papa led the program for 38 seasons, winning 1,368 games • Papa was a five-time ACC Coach of the Year and is the winningest coach in ACC history • Carolina has made 16 NCAA regional appearances • 1981 AIAW national runner-up • Five regular-season ACC titles and 2001 ACC Tournament champion • Five ACC Players of the Year, two Pitchers of the Year and three Rookies of the Year • Prominent players include Kat Rodriguez (All-America, first player in ACC history to win Player of the Week four times in a season), Danielle Spaulding (three-time All-America, three-time ACC Player/Pitcher of the Year), Tiffany Tolleson (Two-time All-America), Kristen Brown (two-time All-America) • Natalie Anter represented Italy in 2004 Olympics.
 
Women's Swimming & Diving
The 2025-26 season is the seventh at UNC for head coach Mark Gangloff • Carolina has won the ACC title 16 times and placed in the top 30 at the NCAA Championships 42 times since program's founding in 1975 • Has 21 national champions, including Sue Walsh's one relay title and 10 individual backstroke titles from 1981-84 • Walsh's 11 national championships are the most by any Tar Heel • Six Olympians, including diver Aranza Vázquez Montaño in 2020 and 2024 • Vázquez Montaño won the 1- meter and 3-meter NCAA titles in 2023 and 2024, equaling the second-most individual NCAA titles ever by a female Tar Heel athlete • Fifteen ACC Swimmers of the Year and three Divers of the Year • Earned 229 individual and 47 relay first-team All-America citations since 1975 and 198 individual and 72 relay ACC champions • Carolina has won 80 percent of its dual meets all-time as well as 80 percent of its ACC dual meets • Former head coach Frank Comfort (1977-2007) is the second-winningest dual meet coach of all-time (men and women combined).

Aranza Vazquez, Yaidel GamboaUniversity of North Carolina Swimming and Diving Women's NCAA Championship - Day 3Gabrielsen NatatoriumAthens, GAFriday, March 22, 2024
 
Men's Swimming & Diving
The 2025-26 season is the seventh at UNC for head coach Mark Gangloff • UNC has won 17 ACC championships and 14 Southern Conference titles • Has 35 top-25 finishes at the NCAA Championships • Four NCAA champions, including Charlie Krepp in both backstrokes in 1957 • Ten Tar Heel swimmers and divers have competed in the Olympic Games, including Patrick Hussey (Canada), Martin Kartavi (Israel) and Adam Maraana (Israel) in 2024 • Thompson Mann was a gold medalist at 1964 Games in Tokyo and was the first swimmer to ever go under one minute in 100-meter backstroke • UNC has produced 1105 individual and 29 relay first-team All-Americas • Ten ACC Swimmers of the Year and seven Divers of the Year, including Anton Down-Jenkins in 2022 • 192 ACC individual champions and 53 relay champions • John Davis (1988-91) won more individual ACC titles (11) than any swimmer in league history • Former head coach Frank Comfort (1977-2007) is the second-winningest dual meet coach of all-time (men and women combined).

Men's Tennis
The 2025-26 season is Sam Paul's 33rd as head coach • He is the winningest coach in program history with 587 career victories • Carolina has won ITA Indoor national championships in 2016 and 2021 and advanced to the NCAA championship match in 2017 and semifinals in 2019 • The Tar Heels have 12 top-10 finishes in NCAA Championship play • Six former Tar Heels are part of the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame: Vic Seixas, Bitsy Grant, John Kenfield, Don Skakle, Allen Morris and Freddie McNair • The Tar Heels have won 25 ACC championships, most recently in 2002, and also won 15 Southern Conference championships • William Blumberg finished his career in 2021, becoming the first 10-time All-America in college tennis history • Blumberg was the NCAA Freshman of the Year and NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player in 2017 • Ronky Hijikata won the Australia Open doubles in 2023, was a Wimbledon finalist in 2025 and competed in the 2024 Olympics for Australia.

Women's Tennis
Won its first NCAA championship in 2023 • Head coach Brian Kalbas, in his 23^rd season at UNC, is a three-time ITA National Coach of the Year (2010 and 2022 at UNC) and six-time ACC Coach of the Year • He has the highest winning percentage in ACC history and is one of only three Division I women's tennis coaches to compile 750 career victories • Played in the NCAA Tournament 25 times, securing 14 trips to the quarterfinals, seven Final Fours and two finals • Tar Heels are 68-25 in NCAA play, a .731 winning percentage, the highest in ACC history • Won the ITA National Team Indoor championship seven times (2013, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) • Four individual NCAA titles – one singles (Jamie Loeb in 2015) and three doubles (Jenna Long and Sara Anundsen in 2007, Makenna Jones and Elizabeth Scotty in 2021 and Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig in 2023) • Won 13 ACC championships, including five straight from 2016 through 2021 (no tournament in 2020 due to the pandemic) • Seven Tar Heels have won ACC Player-of-the-Year honors 11 times, including three-time winner Cinda Gurney and two-time recipients Loeb and Hayley Carter (the ACC's leader in career singles victories with 168) • Prominent players include Crawley (2023 ITA National Player of the Year and ACC Player of the Year), Loeb (2014 ITA National Player of the Year), Jessie Aney, Sara Anundsen, Carter, Sara Daavettila (2021 Honda Sport Award winner), Alexa Graham, Gurney, Long, Sanaz Marand, Caroline Price and Reese Brantmeier (2025 ACC Player of the Year and Academic All-America of the Year) • Crawley won the ITA Fall National Championship in 2022, joining Loeb, Daavettila and Graham in winning that prominent singles titles • Carter teamed with Whitney Kay and Crawley with Scotty to win the ITA Fall National Championships in doubles in 2016 and 2022, respectively • Laura Dupont won the USLTA national title in 1970 before the sport earned varsity status at UNC.

Men's Track and Field
This is Chris Miltenberg's seventh season as head coach • UNC has 16 top-25 finishes at the NCAA Indoor Championships (fifth in 1973) and 18 in the NCAA Outdoor Championships (fourth in 1950 and 1996) • Won 10 ACC and 27 Southern Conference championships • Sixteen NCAA event championships, including most recently Parker Wolfe in the outdoor 5,000 in 2024 and Ethan Strand in the indoor 3,000m in 2025 • Three-time national champions include Eric Bishop (high jump), Ken Harden (400 hurdles and 4x400), Milton Campbell and Tony McCall (4x100, 4x400), Justin Ryncavage (javelin) and Tony Waldrop (distance) • In 2023-24, Wolfe became the first individual ever to win ACC Male Athlete of the Year in cross country, indoor and outdoor track in the same season • In 2025, Wolfe and Strand became the first two Bowerman semifinalists in program history • Strand became the first college runner to set the NCAA record in the mile and 3,000m in the same season, earning him the USTFCCCA National Men's Track Athlete of the Year • Other prominent alumni include Allen Johnson (Olympic gold medalist) hurdler, Waldrop (former world record holder in the indoor mile), Jim Beatty (former world record holder in the indoor mile and two mile, first person to run a sub-4:00 mile indoors), Reggie McAfee (first African-American to run sub-4:00 in the mile) and Kenny Selmon (2018 USATF 400 hurdles champion, 2018 Athletics World Cup 400 hurdles champion and 2020 Olympian) • Former head coach Dennis Craddock won 45 ACC titles (six men's track and field), more than any coach in all sports in ACC history, and was inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame in 2013.

Ethan Strand
 
Women's Track and Field
Chris Miltenberg is in his seventh season as head coach • Carolina has won 29 ACC team championships (the most by any ACC school) • Eighteen individual or relay NCAA champions, including Makayla Paige, who won the indoor 800 in 2025 • Prominent alumni include Laura Gerraughty (four-time NCAA shot put champion), Monique Hennagan (two-time NCAA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist), Latasha Colander (Olympic gold medalist) and Shalane Flanagan (four-time NCAA track/cross country champion, four-time Olympian, an Olympic bronze medalist and American record holder in the indoor 3,000m, indoor 5,000 and outdoor 10,000m) • Gerraughty and Flanagan are tied for the second-most individual NCAA titles ever by a female Tar Heel athlete • Brie Felnagle and Alice Schmidt won three NCAA titles • Schmidt was a back-to-back national champion in the outdoor 800 in 2002 and 2003 • Former head coach Dennis Craddock won 45 ACC titles (six men's track and field), most by any coach in all sports in ACC history, and was inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame in 2013.

Volleyball
Mike Schall is in his third season as head coach and eighth in the program • Carolina has made 19 NCAA Tournament appearances • Leads the conference with nine ACC Tournament and 12 regular-season titles • Most overall and ACC wins as a conference member • Five ACC Players of the Year, two Defensive Players of the Year and four Freshmen of the Year • Eighty-three All-ACC selections four All-Americas and 17 AVCA honorable mentions • Prominent players include All-Americas Paige Neuenfeldt, Chaniel Nelson, Laura Greene and Sharon German • Joe Sagula was head coach for 33 seasons (1990-2022) • Sagula won 662 matches, was a three-time AVCA Regional Coach of the Year and four-time ACC Coach of the Year.

Wrestling
Rob Koll, who won a national championship as a Tar Heel in 1988, is in his third season as head coach • He is the seventh head coach in program history • Koll has the most career wins by a Tar Heel (155-20-1 as a Tar Heel) and the highest single-season win total in program history (47 in 1986-87) • Austin O'Connor became UNC's fourth wrestler to win a national championship and the second to win multiple times • O'Connor won the 149-pound title in 2021 and at 157 pounds in 2023, joining T.J. Jaworsky (1993, 1994, 1995) as multiple national championship winners • Jaworsky went 110-5 as a Tar Heel, was the 1995 National Wrestler of the Year and Most Outstanding Wrestler in the 1995 NCAA Championship • Jaworsky (50) and Koll (49) rank one-two in UNC history in career wins by fall • Carolina has won 17 ACC team titles, third most in conference history, produced 59 All-Americas and 171 individual ACC champions • Koll, heavyweight Justin Harty and O'Connor were four-time All-Americas • Carolina finished in the top 25 in the NCAA Championship 24 times, including a program-best fifth-place finish in 1982 • The 1982 team, led by head coach Bill Lam, included five All-Americas • Lam, the National Coach of the Year, won 378 dual matches and produced 37 All-Americas, 93 individual ACC champions and 15 ACC team titles • Lam has more wins and conference titles than any coach in ACC history • C.D. Mock was Carolina's first All-America (1979), first national champion (1982) and head coach from 2003-15 • Ethan Ramos (Puerto Rico) competed in the 2024 Olympics • Carolina hosted the 1994 NCAA Championship in the Smith Center.

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