University of North Carolina Athletics
Nine Tar Heel Student-Athletes Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
April 19, 2000 | General
April 19, 2000
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Nine student-athletes at the University of North Carolina were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during the course of the 1999-2000 school year. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious academic fraternity in the United States, founded in 1776 in Williamsburg, Va.
Two Tar Heels were inducted in the fall semester of 1999. They were Karen Greenberg, a member of the women's lacrosse team from Cherry Hill, N.J. who had graduated from Carolina in May 1999 but who was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa after the fact. Greenberg was joined by women's soccer player Helen Lawler, a senior from Jupiter, Fla. who also played on UNC's NCAA championship teams in 1996, 1997 and 1999.
Seven more Carolina student-athletes were inducted during the spring semester. This group includes five seniors and two juniors and all are females. The April 10 inductees included Kelly McLaughlin, a senior women's swimmer from High Point, N.C., Holly Huff, a junior field hockey player from St. Louis, Mo., Megan Piper, a senior gymnast from Jacksonville, N.C., Karen Everitt, a junior on the women's track team from Raleigh, N.C., Jeni Burnette, a senior women's tennis player from Raleigh, N.C., and Kimberly and Kyle Treiber, twin sisters on the women's fencing team and seniors from Morganton, N.C.
