Tar Heels Announce 2015 Schedule
November 16, 2014 | Women's Lacrosse
CHAPEL HILL - Head coach Jenny Levy has announced the 2015 University of North Carolina women's lacrosse schedule, a slate that will see the Tar Heels play one of the nation's most challenging schedules in the new-look Atlantic Coast Conference.
In 2015, Carolina will play at least 10 games against teams that made the 2014 NCAA Tournament, including No. 1 seed Maryland, No. 2 seed Syracuse, No. 4 seed Florida, No. 5 seed Syracuse, No. 6 seed Virginia, No. 7 seed Boston College and No. 8 seed Notre Dame (UNC was the No. 3 seed in last year's NCAA Tournament). Unseeded 2014 NCAA teams Duke, Louisville and Towson also dot the slate.
The new-look ACC has lost Maryland but adds Louisville and still includes recent additions Notre Dame and Syracuse. The 2015 ACC Tournament will be hosted by Virginia on April 23-26 in Charlottesville, Va.
The schedue includes seven games in Chapel Hill and eight games away from Chapel Hill, plus the ACC Tournament at Virginia.
Carolina will host regular season home games against James Madison (Feb. 1 to start the season), High Point (Feb. 13), Northwestern (Feb. 28), Elon (March 1), Virginia (March 7), Boston College (March 21) and Syracuse (April 11).
Carolina will scrimmage Elon in a January 24 exhibition in Chapel Hill as a final tune-up for the regular season.
Carolina returns nine starters and eight of its top 10 scorers from last year's NCAA quarterfinalist squad.
Abbey Friend, who set a UNC single-season scoring record in 2014, and three-time All-America Sloane Serpe are lost to graduation, but Carolina anticipates the return of several key players who missed all or most of the 2014 season due to injury. That group includes Brittney Coppa, Sammy Jo Tracy, Kelly Devlin and Morgan Rubin. Sophomore All-America Sydney Holman also is expected back from a late-season knee injury.
Levy signed the nation's fourth-rated recruiting class, which a group that includes a sophomore transfer in Alex Moore and will take the field next spring.
