North Carolina Tar Heels Background Ticket Information

The North Carolina Tar Heels is the official name of the athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (usually abbreviated as UNC). At the same time the name Tar Heel is often used to name the individuals from the state of North Carolina, also known as the Tar Heel State. The athletic teams participate in the Division I-A in the NSAA and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The current athletics director is Dick Baddour. The official colors of the team are Carolina blue and white, while the mascot is Rameses the Ram.

The teams of the University of North Carolina have become champions of 37 team USA tournaments in five various kinds of sports. They are 9th all-time, and 51 individual national championships. The women's soccer team has been the first one in 18 USA championships since the year of 1981. Also, the men's soccer team knocked out all other teams in the USA championship in the year of 2001. Besides that, the women's basketball team won the championship in the year of 1994, the men's basketball team in 1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, and 2005. The men's lacrosse team was most successful in the years 1982, 1986, and 1991, while the women's field hockey team in 1985, 1995, 1996, and 1997. The women's handball team got their victory in the year of 2004, and the men's handball team in the years 2004, 2005, and 2006. The men's crew team won the 2004 ECAC National Invitational Collegiate Regatta in the University 8 category. The men's baseball team is also an eternal winner. In 2006 they advanced to the championship round of the College World Series.

In the year of 1994, the Universitys sports teams won the victory in the Sears Directors Cup, which is awarded for cumulative victories in the NCAA championship.

Prominent alumni from the athletic teams are Mia Hamm, Michael Jordan, Davis Love III, Eddie Pope, B.J. Surhoff, Roy Williams, Jeff Reed, Andrew Miller, Daniel Bard and Marion Jones. Outstanding athletes, who studied at UNC but did not finish up their education because of taking up athletic careers, include Julius Peppers, Lawrence Taylor, Willie Parker, and Dre Bly.

University of North Carolinas most vivid contention is with Duke and North Carolina State. The strife between them has been changing in its intensiveness, while the Universitys athletic teams have won and sometimes lost.

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