Baseball , the home of Tar Heel baseball • Head coach:
Scott Forbes • Stadium:
Bryson Field at Boshamer Stadium • ACC Championships: 9 (1982, 1983, 1984, 1990, 2007, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2022) • College World Series appearances: 11 (1960, 1966, 1978, 1988, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2018) Also nicknamed the
Diamond Heels, Carolina's baseball team has appeared in the
College World Series eleven times. They have reached the championship series twice (
2006 and
2007), losing to
Oregon State on both occasions.
Men's basketball , home of the Tar Heels since 1986. • Head coach:
Michael Malone • Arena:
Dean E. Smith Center •
Southern Conference Championships: 13 (Tournament: 1922, 1924 (undefeated), 1925, 1926, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1945; Regular Season: 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1946) •
ACC Regular Season Championships: 32 (1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2024) •
ACC Tournament Championships: 18 (1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2016) •
NCAA National Championships: 6 (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017) • Pre-Tournament Claimed National Championships: 1 (1924) •
Postseason Invitational Championships: 1 (1971) • NCAA Final Four Appearances: 21 (1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2022) • Best Final Ranking: No. 1 (Associated Press: 1957, 1982, 1984, 1994, 1998, 2008, 2009; Coaches: 1957, 1982, 1984, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017) • National Players of the Year: 8 (
Jack Cobb 1923–26,
George Glamack 1938–41,
Lennie Rosenbluth 1954–57,
Phil Ford 1974–78,
James Worthy 1979–82,
Michael Jordan 1981–1984,
Antawn Jamison 1995–98,
Tyler Hansbrough 2005–09). Carolina has enjoyed long success as one of the top college basketball programs in the country. The program claims 7 national championship teams, six
NCAA National Championships and one retroactive championship, for the
1924. This championship was awarded by the
Helms Foundation and the
Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Under coach
Frank McGuire, the Tar Heels won one national championship in 1957. The
1956-57 team went undefeated on their way to the school's first NCAA tournament championship. McGuire was succeeded by
Dean Smith. After struggling early in his tenure, Smith entrenched the Tar Heels as a basketball powerhouse over his 36 years as head coach. At the time of his retirement, Smith's 879 wins set the record for the most wins of any men's college basketball head coach. Under Smith, the Tar Heels won two national championships, 13 ACC Tournament championships, and one
NIT Championship. Smith is also credited with popularizing the
four corners, which he employed until the introduction of the
shot clock in college basketball. Smith is also credited with developing "
The Carolina Way," epitomized by his motto of "Play hard, play smart, play together," and by other team-oriented practices including "point to the passer," where the player who scores a basket thanks his teammate for the assist. In 2003,
Roy Williams, an assistant under Smith from 1978 to 1988 and the head coach of
Kansas, returned to his alma mater. In Williams' second season as head coach, the Tar Heels won the 2005 NCAA national championship. Williams would go on to win two more national titles (2009 and 2017) in his 18 seasons as Tar Heel head coach. Williams passed his mentor Smith's 879 win total, finishing his career with 903 wins, 485 of which came in Chapel Hill. Williams retired on April 1, 2021, and was replaced by assistant coach Hubert Davis. Davis, who played for Tar Heels from 1988 to 1992 under Smith, also had a lengthy career as an NBA player, and spent several seasons as an analyst for
ESPN before being hired by Williams as an assistant coach in 2012. He became the first
African American head coach for UNC men's basketball, and led the team to its NCAA-record 21st final four in the 2021-22 season.
JV Basketball North Carolina is one of the few remaining Division I schools to sponsor a junior varsity basketball team. The JV Tar Heels play games against community colleges and preparatory schools. Current varsity head coach Hubert Davis coached the JV team for several seasons, and Roy Williams also served a stint as JV head coach when he was an assistant under Dean Smith.
Women's basketball , the home of UNC women's basketball and several Olympic sports • Head coach:
Courtney Banghart • Arena:
Carmichael Arena • ACC Regular Season Championships: 4 (1997, 2005, 2006, 2008) • ACC Tournament Championships: 9 (1984, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) • Final Four Appearances: 3 (1994, 2006, 2007) • National Championships: 1 (1994) Under legendary coach
Sylvia Hatchell, North Carolina women's basketball had many successful seasons. Perhaps the most successful season came in 1993-94, when Hatchell's Tar Heels won the NCAA national championship. Following several seasons of downturn, Hatchell resigned after the 2018-19 season. Coach Hatchell was replaced by
Courtney Banghart, who immediately began to rebuild the program. In her four seasons as head coach, Banghart has begun to raise the standards of the program back to the national level by recruiting at a high level and making back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2021 and 2022. The 2022 team reached the NCAA tournament round of sixteen for the first time since 2015, where the Tar Heels gave eventual national champion South Carolina their closest game of the tournament.
Field hockey • Head coach:
Erin Matson • Stadium: Karen Shelton Stadium • ACC Championships: 26 (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) • National Championships: 11 (1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Karen Shelton led the Carolina field hockey program for 42 years prior to her retirement following the 2022 season. She won 10 NCAA national championships and 25 ACC titles, both records for the sport. Shelton was replaced by former star player
Erin Matson, who herself was a member of four of UNC's national championship teams (2018–2020, 2022), and is the only athlete to win the ACC's player of the year award five times. In Matson's first season in 2023, she led the Tar Heels to their 11th national title, becoming the youngest head coach ever to win a Division I national title in any sport (at age 23).
Football • Head coach:
Bill Belichick • Stadium:
Kenan Memorial Stadium • Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championships: 1 (1895) • Southern Conference Championships: 4 (1922, 1934, 1946, 1949) • ACC Championships: 5 (1963, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1980) • ACC Coastal Division Championships: 3 (2012, 2015, 2022) • Postseason Bowl Appearances: 37 (1947 Sugar, 1949 Sugar, 1950 Cotton, 1963 Gator, 1970 Peach, 1971 Gator, 1972 Sun, 1974 Sun, 1976 Peach, 1977 Liberty, 1979 Gator, 1980 Bluebonnet, 1981 Gator, 1982 Sun, 1983 Peach, 1986 Aloha, 1993 Peach, 1993 Gator, 1994 Sun, 1995 Carquest, 1997 Gator, 1998 Gator, 1998 Las Vegas, 2001 Peach, 2004 Continental Tire, 2008 Meineke Car Care, 2009 Meineke Car Care, 2010 Music City, 2011 Independence, 2013 Belk, 2014 Quick Lane, 2015 Russell Athletic, 2016 Sun, 2019 Military, 2021 Orange Bowl – January, 2021 Duke's Mayo Bowl, 2022 Holiday Bowl) • Best Final Ranking: No. 3 (1948 Associated Press)
Men's lacrosse in the 2009 ACC tournament final. • Head coach: Joe Breschi • Home fields:
Dorrance Field • ACC tournament championships: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2013, 2017 • ACC regular season championships: 1981, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2016, 2021 •
NCAA tournament appearances: 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021 • NCAA tournament Final Four appearances: 14 (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2016, 2021) • NCAA tournament championships: 5 (1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 2016)
Women's lacrosse • Head coach:
Jenny Levy • Home fields:
Dorrance Field • ACC tournament championships: 2002, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 •
NCAA Tournament appearances: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 • NCAA Tournament Final Four appearances: 13 (1997, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) • NCAA Championships: 4 (2013, 2016, 2022, 2025)
Men's soccer • Head coach:
Carlos Somoano • Stadium:
Dorrance Field • ACC Tournament Championships: 1987, 2000, 2011 • College Cup Appearances: 1987, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2021 (spring) • NCAA National Championships: 2 (2001, 2011)
Women's soccer • Head coach: Damon Nahas • Stadium:
Dorrance Field • ACC Championships: 38 (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Tournament, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 Regular Season) • National Championships: 23 (1981 AIAW, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2024 NCAA) • College Cup Appearances: 26 (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (spring), 2022, 2024)
Anson Dorrance coached the women's soccer team at Carolina from its inception in 1979 until 2024. In his 46 years as head coach, Dorrance won 38 ACC championships and 22 national championships on the way to over 1,000 victories as a head coach. In 2019, following the demolition of
Fetzer Field, a new combination soccer and lacrosse stadium was opened on the same site, named Dorrance Field in his honor. Damon Nahas replaced Anson Dorrance as interim head coach prior to the 2024 season and was promoted to head coach on December 9, 2024.
Women's tennis • Head coach:
Brian Kalbas • Stadium: Chewning Tennis Center • NCAA National Championships: 1 (2023) • ITA Indoor National Championships: 7 (2013, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Jamie Loeb attended UNC for her freshman and sophomore years (2013–15), during which she became the first freshman in close to 30 years to win both the Riviera/
ITA Women's All-American Championship (making her the NCAA Women's Singles Tennis National Champion) and the
USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship. She was also the first singles national champion in UNC women's tennis history. In 2025, Reese Brantmeier won the NCAA Division I individual championship, held in the fall of the 2025–2026 year.
Men's golf The men's golf team has won 15 conference championships: •
Southern Conference (3): 1947, 1952, 1953 •
Atlantic Coast Conference (11): 1956, 1960, 1965, 1977, 1981, 1983–84, 1986, 1995–96, 2006 (co-champion), 2024 Two Tar Heels have won the
NCAA individual championship,
Harvie Ward in 1949 and
John Inman in 1984. Ward also won the
British Amateur in 1952 and the
U.S. Amateur in 1955 and 1956. The team's best finish was second place in 1953 and 1991. Tar Heel golfers who have had success at the professional level include
Davis Love III (20 PGA Tour wins including
1997 PGA Championship) and
Mark Wilson (five PGA Tour wins).
Wrestling Following Coach Sam Barnes, who built the modern wrestling program at UNC (1953–1971), head coach Bill Lam led the Tar Heel wrestling program for 30 years until his retirement in 2002, where his former wrestler and 1982 NCAA Champion,
C.D. Mock, became his replacement. Under Lam, the Tar Heels were a consistent top 25 NCAA team. Lam led the Tar Heels to 15 ACC tournament titles in addition to being named ACC coach of the year 10 times. Following the Lam era, Mock was named ACC Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2006 in addition to claiming two ACC team titles. In 2015, Olympic bronze medalist and
Oklahoma State University graduate
Coleman Scott became the team's head wrestling coach. The Tar Heel wrestling program boasts many ACC champions, All-Americans, and has 4 individual NCAA champions, with 7 national championships amongst them: C.D. Mock (1982),
Rob Koll (1988), T.J. Jaworsky (1993, 1994, 1995), and
Austin O'Connor (2021, 2023). Jaworsky is known as one of the greatest college wrestlers of all time as he is the first and only ACC wrestler to win three NCAA titles in addition to winning the inaugural Dan Hodge Trophy, given to college wrestling's most dominant wrestler. UNC wrestling All-Americans include: C.D. Mock, Dave Cook, Jan Michaels, Bob Monaghan, Mike Elinsky, Rob Koll, Bobby Shriner, Tad Wilson, Al Palacio, Lenny Bernstein, Doug Wyland, Enzo Catullo, Pete Welch, Shane Camera, Jody Staylor, Marc Taylor, Stan Banks, Justin Harty, Evan Sola, Chris Rodrigues, Evan Henderson, Ethan Ramos, and Joey Ward. Other notable alumni include C.C. Fisher, a 1998 ACC champion and Most Outstanding Wrestler, who went on to become a successful wrestler on the international stage, where he was as high as second on the United States Olympic latter. Fisher also went on to become a successful coach for multiple Division I wrestling programs including Iowa State and Stanford. Also, the late Sen.
Paul Wellstone attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) on a wrestling scholarship. In college he was an undefeated ACC wrestling champion. The Tar Heel wrestling program has won 17 total ACC championships: 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2006. UNC's best finish at the NCAA tournament was 5th in
1982. They also finished 6th at the
1994 NCAA tournament.
Carmichael Arena is currently the home to the Tar Heels Wrestling team, located centrally on campus.
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