Tar Heels To Play A Pair This Weekend

• The North Carolina women's lacrosse team will play a pair of games this weekend as it continues the early stages of its 2018 season.
• Carolina will visit High Point on Friday afternoon, then host Liberty on Sunday at noon in Chapel Hill at Kenan Stadium.
• The Tar Heels are looking to rebound from their season-opening loss at No. 16 James Madison. UNC dropped a 15-14, double-overtime decision at JMU last Saturday.
• Friday's game will be streamed live by the Big South Network. Sunday's game will be streamed by ACC Network Extra.
• Carolina is ranked No. 7 in the Cascade media poll this week. It was ranked No. 3 in the nation in the IWLCA coaches poll (the new coaches poll will be released on Monday Feb. 19). The Tar Heels were No. 3 in both polls prior to their loss at James Madison.
• High Point and Liberty are both unranked.
• Carolina is the two-time defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion and has won three consecutive ACC regular season titles.

SERIES VS. HIGH POINT
• Carolina leads the all-time series with High Point, 5-0. Last year, the Tar Heels beat the Panthers, 16-6, in Chapel Hill.
• The Tar Heels have beaten the Panthers in Chapel Hill in 2011, 2015 and 2017 and in High Point in 2013 and 2016.

SERIES VS. LIBERTY
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Liberty, 1-0.
• In the only previous meeting between the two schools, Carolina won, 19-3, at Liberty in 2012.

TAR HEELS PLAYING AT KENAN STADIUM IN 2018
• The Tar Heel men's and women's lacrosse teams will play their home games in 2018 at Kenan Stadium, home of the UNC football team. Carolina's home lacrosse stadium, Fetzer Field, is under extensive renovations and scheduled to reopen for the 2018-19 academic year.
• The new Fetzer Field will be a soccer/lacrosse facility with improved fan amenities, office space for UNC coaches, training and medical facilities, locker rooms and more.
• Fetzer was built in 1935, and the Carolina women's lacrosse team has played games at Fetzer since the inception of the program in 1996.
• Carolina is 139-28 all-time at Fetzer Field, including 18-2 in NCAA Tournament games.

McCOOL BACK FOR MORE AS A SENIOR
• Midfielder Marie McCool is among the most decorated players in the nation and is primed to earn more national honors as senior in 2018.
• McCool was one of five 2017 finalists for the Tewaaraton Award, the highest individual honor in the sport, as well as one of four nominees for the 2017 Honda Award for Lacrosse. She is a two-time, first-team All-America and two-time, first-team All-ACC pick. She also was the 2017 ACC Midfielder of the Year and the 2017 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
• McCool also was one of just two college players on the United States National Team that won a gold medal at the World Cup in England in July of 2017.

ROSTER TURNOVER
• UNC returns 21 letterwinners and five starters from its 2017 team that won the ACC regular season and ACC Tournament while ranking among the top three teams in the national polls throughout the season.
• Carolina graduated a decorated senior class after the 2017 campaign, a group that included ACC Attacker of the Year Molly Hendrick, two-time National Goalie of the Year Caylee Waters, All-Americas Sammy Jo Tracy and Maggie Auslander and more.

BACK-TO-BACK ACC TOURNAMENT TITLES
• Carolina won its second straight ACC Tournament last year, beating Duke, Boston College and Syracuse by an average of over seven goals per game.
• The Tar Heels have won three ACC Tournaments, including each of the last two (2002, 2016, 2017).

TAR HEELS WIN ACC REGULAR SEASON TITLE
• Carolina was the ACC regular season champion in 2017 for the third year in a row and the eighth time overall: 1998 (outright), 2000 (tie), 2006 (tie), 2010 (tie), 2012 (outright), 2015 (outright), 2016 (outright) and 2017 (outright).

CAROLINA HAS WON 23 OF LAST 24 VS. ACC
• Carolina has won 23 of its last 24 games against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, losing only to Syracuse in the 2017 regular season in Chapel Hill since the 2015 ACC Tournament final.

TAR HEELS ARE 34-4 IN LAST 38 GAMES
• The Tar Heels enter Friday's game having won 34 of their last 38 games, dating back to early in the 2016 season.
• Carolina closed its 2016 NCAA championship run on a 17-game winning streak, then went 17-3 in 2017.

300 WINS FOR LEVY
• Head coach Jenny Levy became the third coach in NCAA Division I history to win 300 games with a win over Canisius in March 2017. Levy joined Navy's Cindy Timchal and Princeton's Chris Sailer in the 300-win club, and Virginia's Julie Myers has since joined the group.
• Levy has a record of 312-110 in her 23rd season as a head coach (all at Carolina).

LEVY NAMED HEAD COACH OF U.S. NATIONAL TEAM
• UNC's Jenny Levy was named head coach of the United States women's national team on November 9, 2017.
• Levy takes over for Georgetown coach Ricky Fried, who led the U.S. to back-to-back Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships, including a 10-5 victory over Canada in the gold medal game in Guildford, England last summer. The U.S. has been the dominant force in international women's lacrosse for decades, winning eight of the 10 FIL World Cups held since 1982.

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Players Mentioned

Maggie Auslander

Molly Hendrick

Marie McCool

Sammy Jo Tracy

Caylee Waters

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