Team: North Carolina Tar Heels
Charlotte Bobcats
Championships: 2000 Final Four
Headcoach: John Bunting
University of North Carolina athletic crew is known as the Tar Heels and is because of the fact that North Carolina is "The Tar Heel State." As a legend says, the nickname was applied to state's residents as long ago as the Revolutionary War. Others say the nickname was acquired during the War Between the States. A letter found in 1991 by State Archivist David Olson lends credence to another ... (more)
University of North Carolina athletic crew is known as the Tar Heels and is because of the fact that North Carolina is "The Tar Heel State." As a legend says, the nickname was applied to state's residents as long ago as the Revolutionary War. Others say the nickname was acquired during the War Between the States. A letter found in 1991 by State Archivist David Olson lends credence to another more direct theory. A letter from Maj. Joseph Engelhard describes a fight involving men from North Carolina in which Lee was heard to have said, "There they stand as if they have tar on their heels."
The adoption of light blue and white as UNC's colors dates back to the 19th Century. When the University reopened following the Civil War, most social activities were directed by two literary societies, the Dialectic and Philanthropic. The official color of the Di was light blue and that of the Phi white. On public occasions the student officers, marshals and ball managers were chosen equally from the membership of the two societies. It had long been the custom of each society for its members to wear its color on such occasions. However, the chief marshal and chief ball manager, one from the Di and the other from the Phi, wore combination light blue and white regalias and rosettes signifying that they represented the whole student body.
The University of North Carolina has won 36 team national championships in five different sports and 51 individual national championships. The women's soccer team has won eighteen national championships since 1981; the men's soccer team won the championship in 2001.
Following a runner-up finish in the 2006 College World Series, the University of North Carolina baseball program handed out its annual awards recently with four players sharing most valuable player honors. Reliever Jonathan Hovis and left-handed starter Andrew Miller were awarded the S.H. Basnight Award as most valuable pitchers, while first baseman Chad Flack and shortstop Josh Horton claimed the S.H. Basnight Award for most valuable position players.
The 2006 Roger Clemens Award winner and Baseball America's National Player of the Year, Miller was 13-2 with a 2.48 ERA this past season. The Gainesville, Fla., native set the Carolina single-season strikeout record with 133 and also finished second in wins (13) and innings pitched (123.1) on UNC's single-season lists. Miller also set the Tar Heels' career strikeout record with 325 in just three seasons and is third all-time with 27 wins and fourth with 309 innings.
The Coastal Plain League announced Monday that Martinsville's Josh Paul, New Bern's Nick Vera and Ernie Banks of Peninsula were named the Rawlings Tri-Hitters of the Week, while Nick Sottung of Outer Banks and Wilmington's Rob Wooten were honored as Rawlings Co-Pitchers of the Week for week eight of action (July 24-July 30). The No. 6 overall selection in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, former North Carolina left-hander Andrew Miller signed a four-year major league with the Detroit Tigers Friday.
University of North Carolina athletic crew is known as the Tar Heels and is because of the fact that North Carolina is "The Tar Heel State." As a legend says, the nickname was applied to state's residents as long ago as the Revolutionary War. Others say the nickname was acquired during the War Between the States. A letter found in 1991 by State Archivist David Olson lends credence to another more direct theory. A letter from Maj. Joseph Engelhard describes a fight involving men from North Carolina in which Lee was heard to have said, "There they stand as if they have tar on their heels."
The adoption of light blue and white as UNC's colors dates back to the 19th Century. When the University reopened following the Civil War, most social activities were directed by two literary societies, the Dialectic and Philanthropic. The official color of the Di was light blue and that of the Phi white. On public occasions the student officers, marshals and ball managers were chosen equally from the membership of the two societies. It had long been the custom of each society for its members to wear its color on such occasions. However, the chief marshal and chief ball manager, one from the Di and the other from the Phi, wore combination light blue and white regalias and rosettes signifying that they represented the whole student body.
The University of North Carolina has won 36 team national championships in five different sports and 51 individual national championships. The women's soccer team has won eighteen national championships since 1981; the men's soccer team won the championship in 2001.
Following a runner-up finish in the 2006 College World Series, the University of North Carolina baseball program handed out its annual awards recently with four players sharing most valuable player honors. Reliever Jonathan Hovis and left-handed starter Andrew Miller were awarded the S.H. Basnight Award as most valuable pitchers, while first baseman Chad Flack and shortstop Josh Horton claimed the S.H. Basnight Award for most valuable position players.
The 2006 Roger Clemens Award winner and Baseball America's National Player of the Year, Miller was 13-2 with a 2.48 ERA this past season. The Gainesville, Fla., native set the Carolina single-season strikeout record with 133 and also finished second in wins (13) and innings pitched (123.1) on UNC's single-season lists. Miller also set the Tar Heels' career strikeout record with 325 in just three seasons and is third all-time with 27 wins and fourth with 309 innings.
The Coastal Plain League announced Monday that Martinsville's Josh Paul, New Bern's Nick Vera and Ernie Banks of Peninsula were named the Rawlings Tri-Hitters of the Week, while Nick Sottung of Outer Banks and Wilmington's Rob Wooten were honored as Rawlings Co-Pitchers of the Week for week eight of action (July 24-July 30). The No. 6 overall selection in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, former North Carolina left-hander Andrew Miller signed a four-year major league with the Detroit Tigers Friday.
