University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Earn No. 4 Seed In NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament
May 7, 2000 | Women's Lacrosse
May 7, 2000
Chapel Hill, N.C. - The University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team has earned the No. 4 seed in the 2000 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament, the NCAA announced Sunday evening. The Tar Heels receive an opening-round bye and will host a game next weekend in Chapel Hill for the right to go to the NCAA Final Four.
UNC will play the winner of the game between Loyola and Delaware set for this week in Loyola, Md. The Tar Heels will host either Loyola or Delaware on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at Henry Stadium in Chapel Hill.
"We're really excited about the opportunity to get our fourth NCAA bid ," UNC head coach Jenny Slingluff Levy said Sunday evening. "It's nice that we get a bye since we're in final exams this week. I think it will be a very competitive tournament, with teams one through twelve all very capable of advancing to the Final Four."
The Carolina squad, which is in its fifth year as a varsity team, is making its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. The Tar Heels are aiming for their third Final Four appearance in the last four seasons, having reached the national semifinals in both 1997 and 1998.
"We played a very tough schedule this year," Slingluff Levy said. "I hope the tough schedule will prepare us for the tournament. I'm glad the NCAA Committee rewarded us for our schedule because although we did have five losses, we had some very good wins as well."
UNC is one of four Atlantic Coast Conference teams named to the NCAA Tournament field. Maryland, the five-time defending national champions, are the tournament's top seed and will play the Georgetown-Syracuse winner next weekend in College Park, Md. Duke and Virginia also received bids. The Blue Devils will host Dartmouth and Virginia will host Boston University this week.
Carolina, which is ranked No. 4 in this week's IWLCA national rankings, has a record of 12-5 this season. UNC won the ACC regular season title and reached the championship game of the ACC Tournament. During the season, the Tar Heels defeated four opponents who were ranked in the top five nationally at the time of the contest - No. 1 Maryland, No. 2 Dartmouth, No. 3 Virginia and No. 3 Duke.
