University of North Carolina Athletics
Men's Soccer Opens Spring Season, Releases 2001 Fall Schedule
March 29, 2001 | Men's Soccer
March 29, 2001
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The University of North Carolina men's soccer team has begun its 2001 spring schedule, gearing up to defend its Atlantic Coast Conference championship in the fall. Last weekend, Carolina opened its spring campaign with a 2-0 win over the Greensboro Dynamo, a division III professional team of the USISL. Rising seniors Ryan Kneipper and Mike Gell each scored for UNC.
Carolina will play in exhibition action five more times this spring.
On Friday, March 30, the Tar Heels will face the Under-17 National Team on Fetzer Field at 1 p.m. Admission is free. The U-17 team is preparing in North Carolina for their World Cup Qualifying Tournament in April, having played at Wake Forest on Monday night and at Duke on Wednesday evening. If the U-17 squad qualifies, it will compete in the Youth World Cup in Trinidad & Tobago in September 2001.
On April 1, Carolina will host its annual Alumni Tournament, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Finley practice field complex. On Sunday, April 8, the Heels will play versus Virginia Tech (9 a.m.) and Penn State (3 p.m.) in the Bluefield Invitational in Bluefield, W.Va.
On Saturday, April 14, Carolina will face the University of Richmond at the WRAL Soccer Center in Raleigh, N.C. Finally, on Saturday, April 21, the Tar Heels will take part in the NCYSA College Spring Fling, a mini-tournament at Bryan Park in Greensboro, N.C.
The Tar Heels on Thursday released their fall schedule for the 2001 season. The slate includes home matches against ACC foes Duke, Maryland and Clemson, road games at conference foes Virginia, NC State and Wake Forest and key non-conference matchups at William & Mary and at home versus Old Dominion and South Carolina.
The Tar Heels will take part in the 2001 Saint Louis Soccer Classic in early September, facing Cincinnati and host Saint Louis and will be a part of the 2001 UNC Greensboro Soccer Classic against South Florida and Georgia State. Carolina also will host the 2001 installment of its annual Nike Carolina Classic, facing New Hampshire and West Virginia on the weekend of Sept. 14 and 16.
To view the entire schedule, click on "Schedule/Results" at the top of the men's soccer page on TarHeelBlue.com.
