WLAX Hosts Stony Brook Thursday For Final Four Berth

• The top-seeded and No. 1-ranked University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team (19-0) will try for the 13th NCAA final four trip in program history when it hosts No. 8 seed and seventh-ranked Stony Brook (16-2) on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Dorrance Field. UNC has reached for the NCAA semifinals in nine of the last 12 years.
• These two teams will be meeting in the NCAA quarterfinals in Chapel Hill for the second year in a row. A year ago in 2021, UNC beat the Seawolves, 14-11, in the quarters. Stony Book led the Tar Heels in the final 10 minutes before Carolina closed the game on a 5-0 run to win.
• The winner of Thursday's NCAA quarterfinal will advance to the semifinal on May 27 in Baltimore against the winner of the quarterfinal between No. 4 seed Northwestern and No. 5 seed Syracuse.
• UNC is riding a 19-game winning streak, the third-longest in program history, and is seeking its 10th trip to the semifinals in the last 13 NCAA Tournaments.
• Last weekend, the Tar Heels blitzed Virginia, 24-2, for their 19th consecutive NCAA second-round win.
• ESPNU will televise Thursday's game live nationally. Leah Secondo (play-by-play) and Dana Boyle (analyst) will have the call.

Tar Heel Hot Streaks
Carolina has:
• Won 19 consecutive games, the third-longest streak in UNC history
(last loss: 2021 NCAA semifinal to Boston College)
• Won 32 consecutive home games
(last loss: 8-14, 3/23/19 vs. Boston College)
• Won 18 consecutive road games
(last loss: 7-9, 3/31/19 at Notre Dame)
• Won 18 consecutive ACC Tournament games, the longest streak in the event's history
(last loss: 2015 final to Syracuse)
• Won six consecutive ACC Tournament titles—tied as the longest streak in the event's history (with Maryland's six straight from 2009-14).
• Won 40 consecutive regular season games (tied as third-longest streak in NCAA history)
(last loss: 7-9, 3/31/19 at Notre Dame)
• Won 22 consecutive regular season ACC games
(last loss: 7-9, 3/31/19 at Notre Dame)
• Won 46 of its last 47 games
• Won 54 of its last 56 games
• Won 10 ACC regular season championships, including five of the last seven (beginning in 2015, excluding the COVID year of 2020 and including 2022)
• Reached nine of the last 12 NCAA semifinal weekends

Carolina's NCAA Tournament History
• UNC is 37-20 all-time in NCAA Tournament games and is making its 23rd NCAA appearance in 27 years as a varsity program (including 17 in a row).
• The Tar Heels have made 12 NCAA semifinal (final four) appearances (1997, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021), including nine in the last 12 tournaments.
• Carolina's 12 berths in the NCAA final four are tied as the third-most in the history of the sport behind Maryland (27) and Virginia (14). Northwestern also has 12.
• UNC has reached the NCAA title game four times, winning twice (2013, 2016).
• Carolina is 28-10 in the last 13 NCAA Tournaments, advancing to nine final fours and four national finals since 2009.
• Carolina is 28-3 at home in NCAA Tournament games, losing only in 2000 (to Loyola), 2014 (to Virginia) and 2017 (to Navy). UNC has won 26 of its last 28 home NCAA Tournament games.
• UNC is 19-1 with 19 consecutive wins in the NCAA Tournament second round.
• The Tar Heels are 12-9 in NCAA Tournament quarterfinal games and have won nine of their last 12. Carolina is 11-3 in quarterfinal games played in Chapel Hill and 1-6 on the road.
• Carolina is 4-7 in NCAA semifinal games and has won three of its last five (but lost two in a row).
• The Tar Heels are 2-2 in NCAA championship games, beating Maryland in 2013 and 2016 while losing to Northwestern in 2009 and Maryland in 2015.
• Head coach Jenny Levy has led Carolina to 23 NCAA Tournament berths, including 17 in a row. Levy's 37 NCAA Tournament wins are fourth in the history of the sport.
• UNC is a top-five seed in the NCAA Tournament in 2022 for the 13th tournament in a row.

Two Tewaaraton Award Finalists
• Ally Mastroianni and Jamie Ortega are both among the five finalists for the 2022 Tewaaraton Award.
• This is the second year in a row and the second time overall the Tar Heels have had two Tewaaraton finalists in the same season (Ortega and Taylor Moreno were finalists in 2021).
• Ortega joins Marie McCool as the only two-time Tewaaraton finalists in Tar Heel history.
• Mastroianni and Ortega are the 10th and 11th Tewaaraton finalists in Carolina women's lacrosse history: Christine McPike (2002), Amber Falcone (2009), Jen Russell (2010), Becky Lynch (2012), Kara Cannizzaro (2013), Marie McCool (2017, 2018), Taylor Moreno (2021), Ortega (2021, 2022) and Mastroianni (2022).

Nine USA Lacrosse All-Americas
• Nine Tar Heels, most of any team in the nation, grabbed spots on the 2022 USA Lacrosse Magazine All-America teams.
• Attacker Jamie Ortega, midfielder Ally Mastroianni and defender Emma Trenchard earned first-team nods. Goalie Taylor Moreno was on the second team, while attacker Caitlyn Wurzburger and defender Emily Nalls were third-team picks. Attackers Andie Aldave and Scottie Rose Growney and defender Brooklyn Walker-Welch picked up honorable mention honors.

Tar Heels Dominate ACC Awards
• Carolina dominated the 2022 ACC individual awards, announced after the Tar Heels won their sixth consecutive ACC Tournament.
• Jamie Ortega is the ACC Attacker of the Year for the second year in a row (2021, 2022), Ally Mastroianni is the ACC Midfielder of the Year for the second year in a row (2021, 2022) and Emma Trenchard is the ACC Defensive Player of the Year of the second time (2019, 2022).
• Jenny Levy earned her seventh ACC Coach of the Year award in 2022.

Six Consecutive ACC Titles
• The Tar Heels won their sixth ACC Tournament championship in a row with their 16-9 win over No. 2-ranked Boston College on May 7 in Chapel Hill.
• The Tar Heels have won seven ACC championships overall (2002, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022).
• UNC's six ACC titles in a row tie the longest streak of consecutive titles in ACC history (with Maryland's six straight from 2009-14).
• UNC's seven ACC titles are second-most in conference history. Maryland holds the record with 11.
• Head coach Jenny Levy won her seventh ACC championship, passing Cathy Reese of Maryland for the most in ACC history.
• Carolina has won 18 consecutive ACC Tournament games, the longest streak in history. UNC's last ACC Tournament loss came in the 2015 title game to Syracuse.
• UNC has an all-time record of 35-18 in ACC Tournament play.
• Carolina has reached the ACC championship game seven years in a row, 11 times in the last 12 years and 15 times overall (1998, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022). The 15 ACC title-game appearances are the most in history.
• The Tar Heels were the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament for the ninth time. Carolina is 17-5 all-time as the No. 1 seed, winning titles in 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2022.
• UNC is 13-0 all-time in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.
• Carolina is 15-10 in the ACC semifinals. The Tar Heels have won 11 of their last 12 ACC semifinal games.
• UNC is 7-8 in ACC Tournament finals, winning in 2002 over Maryland, 2016, 2017 and 2021 over Syracuse and 2018, 2019 and 2022 over Boston College.

10x ACC Regular Season Champ
• Carolina (8-0 in the ACC) won its 10th ACC regular season championship in 2022 (1998, 2000, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022).
• This is Carolina's seventh outright ACC regular season title (1998, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022).
• Carolina has won 22 consecutive ACC regular season games.

Series History vs. the Seawolves
• Carolina and Stony Brook met twice in Chapel Hill during the 2021 season in the first matchups between the two schools.
• UNC won both meetings—14-7 in the season opener for both teams on Feb. 14, 2021, and 14-11 in the NCAA quarterfinals.
• In February, Carolina got seven points from Katie Hoeg and five from Jamie Ortega on its way to a 14-7 win over No. 6 Stony Brook. Hoeg tallied two goals and five assists and Ortega scored three times with two assists.
• In May in the NCAA Tournament, Carolina scored the final five goals of the game and came from behind to beat eighth-seeded Stony Brook, 14-11. Five different Tar Heels scored in the 5-0 run, as UNC overcame an 11-9 deficit in the final 7:34.
• Stony Brook head coach Joe Spallina is an assistant coach with the US National Team, which is led by head coach Jenny Levy.

Tar Heel Tidbits
Team
• Carolina has 19 wins this season, second-most in UNC history (the 2016 and 2021 teams each won 20 games).
• Scoring Run: Carolina has scored 10 or more goals in 55 of the last 56 games (a run that began on April 6, 2019). The exception was the 2021 ACC Tournament final vs. Syracuse (nine).
• The current Tar Heel senior class (2018-22) has posted a record of 80-9 in four-plus seasons.
• Vs. Ranked Teams: In 2022, Carolina is 13-0 vs. top-25 teams, 6-0 vs. top-10 teams and 4-0 vs. top-five teams.
• Among the NCAA's Best: The Tar Heels lead the ACC and the nation in scoring offense, scoring margin, points per game, assists per game and fewest turnovers per game. UNC also leads the ACC in save percentage (ranking 12th nationally), scoring defense (fourth nationally) and shooting percentage (second nationally).
• The 2022 Tar Heels are the highest-scoring team in school history. Carolina is averaging 17.63 goals per game this season, leading the nation. The UNC school record is 15.90, set in 2017.
• Carolina has scored at least 15 goals in 17 of 19 games this season and has scored 20 or more seven times.
• UNC has led entering the fourth quarter in every game this season and at halftime in all but two contests (tied 7-7 at Syracuse; trailed 6-4 vs. Boston College in ACC final).
• The Tar Heels are allowing 8.26 goals per game in 2022, the ACC's best and the nation's fourth-best scoring defense.
• With a lengthy list of recent All-America defenders and goalies in Chapel Hill under the tutelege of longtime defensive coordinator Phil Barnes, Carolina's defense has held its opponents to single-digit goals in 35 of its last 46 games (since the start of the 2020 season).

Individual
• Andie Aldave scored a career-high six goals against Louisville on March 13 and scored four goals in the win at No. 1-ranked Boston College on March 20.
• Sam Geiersbach has 25 goals and 23 assists in the last 16 games, providing instant offense (3.00 ppg in that span) off the bench. She is ninth in the ACC in assists per game.
• Scottie Rose Growney is second on the team with 53 goals and third with 71 points, both of which are career highs.
• Growney has scored at least two goals in 17 of 19 games this season. She scored 13 goals in three ACC Tournament wins and was named to the all-tournament team.
• Caitlyn Wurzburger leads the team and the ACC with 42 assists. She is second on the UNC team with a career-high 72 points.
• Junior defender Emily Nalls tied the school record with 10 ground balls at High Point and earned second-team All-ACC honors in a breakout 2022 season. Nalls leads UNC with 20 caused turnovers (tying her career high) and 42 ground balls (career high) and is second with 51 draw controls (career high).
• Head coach Jenny Levy has more wins (record of 392-118) and more ACC regular season wins (96-33) than any coach in ACC history.

#1 In The National Polls
• Carolina is ranked No.1 in the ILWomen/IWLCA rankings for the seventh week in a row. UNC took over the top spot on March 21 after its win at previously-top-ranked Boston College.
• UNC had been ranked No. 2 nationally in every poll this season prior to winning at BC.

All-ACC Honors
• Four Tar Heels earned first-team All-ACC honors for 2022, all for the second consecutive year: midfielder Ally Mastroianni, goalie Taylor Moreno, attacker Jamie Ortega and defender Emma Trenchard. Moreno, Ortega and Trenchard were named first-team All-ACC for the third year in a row.
• Defender Emily Nalls and attacker Caitlyn Wurzburger grabbed second-team All-ACC accolades.
• Brooklyn Walker-Welch was named to the ACC All-Freshman Team

Tar Heels Streaking at Dorrance
• Carolina has won 32 consecutive home games at Dorrance Field, the longest home winning streak in program history and the fifth-longest in NCAA history (Stony Brook's 33-game home streak is fourth).
• UNC's last loss at home came on March 23, 2019, to Boston College.

ACC Dominance
• Carolina is 68-6 in its last 74 games against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents (regular season and postseason) and has won six consecutive ACC Tournaments.
• UNC's six straight ACC titles are the longest streak in the event's history (tied with Maryland's six straight from 2009-14).
• UNC's 18 consecutive ACC Tournament wins are the longest streak in the history of the tournament.
• Since a loss in the 2015 ACC Tournament final, UNC's only losses to conference foes have come to Boston College (four times), Syracuse (once, in 2017) and Notre Dame (once, in 2019).

Ortega Rewriting Record Books
• Attacker Jamie Ortega is rewriting the UNC, ACC and NCAA record books in 2022 and is the first five-time All-America in Carolina history.
• Ortega is first in ACC history and second in NCAA history with 457 career points, topping the record of former ACC leader Jen Adams of Maryland (1998-2001) that had stood for over 20 years.
• Ortega is Carolina's career leader in goals and points and is second in school history in assists.
• Ortega has 457 points in 88 career games for a UNC-record 5.19 points per game. Katie Hoeg is second with 370 points in 89 games (4.16 ppg).
• Ortega has scored at least one goal in 52 of the last 53 games. Her 50-game streak came to an end in the ACC semifinal win over Notre Dame on May 1.
• Ortega has scored multiple goals in 78 of 88 career games (88.6 percent).
• Her 329 career goals are third in NCAA history and second in ACC annals. Current BC attacker Charlotte North is first in ACC history with 345 goals.
• Ortega has scored five or more goals 31 times in 88 career games (35.2 percent of the time).
• Ortega has tallied at least one point in 82 consecutive games and 87 of 88 in her career.
• Ortega has started all 88 games in her career, the most starts in school history and one off Katie Hoeg's UNC-record 89 games played.

Mastroianni Excelling in Midfield
• Graduate student midfielder Ally Mastroianni is the two-time reigning ACC Midfielder of the Year (2021, 2022) and a Tewaaraton Award finalist this season. She has been at her best in big games and earned first-team All-ACC honors for the second consecutive year.
• Mastroianni had three goals, an assist and tied her career high with 11 draw controls in the ACC championship game win over No. 2 Boston College, earning All-ACC Tournament honors.
• She tied her career high with four goals in the April 21 win over Duke that clinched the top seed in the ACC Tournament.
• In the April 14 win at Virginia, she scored a game-high four goals (tying her career high) and had eight draw controls.
• In the March 20 win at top-ranked Boston College, she had two goals (including the game-winner) and five draw controls.
• She tied her career high with four goals and set a new career high with five points in UNC's 20-9 win over No. 6 Northwestern on March 6.
• She leads Carolina with a career-high 116 draw controls this season. She also led UNC with 112 DCs in 2021, earning unanimous first-team All-America honors.
• She was among three Tar Heels and 52 ACC student-athletes selected as 2021 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients.
• Mastroianni, from Martinsville, N.J., earned a degree in 2021 with a double major in media & journalism and communication studies. She is now pursuing a master's degree in media and communication while also spearheading UNC's community service efforts off the field.

Moreno Snaps UNC Career Wins Record
• Graduate student goalie Taylor Moreno has a career record of 67-6 in the cage and became Carolina's all-time leader in goalie wins on Feb. 16 against Furman.
• Moreno eclipsed the wins record of Caylee Waters (2014-17), who had 49 career victories. Waters is a volunteer assistant coach for the 2022 Tar Heels.
• Moreno has started 73 consecutive games in the cage for the Tar Heels, beginning with the final five games of the 2018 season.
• Her 84 games played in goal and 73 consecutive starts both are most in UNC history.
• Moreno leads the ACC in save percentage and goals against average.
• Moreno has six games with 10+ saves this season, including a season-high 16 (one off her career high of 17) in the April 2 win over Notre Dame, 12 in the ACC semifinal win at Notre Dame and 11 in the ACC final win over Boston College.
• Moreno has 23 career games with 11 or more saves, including five in 2021 and six in 2022.
• Moreno is a three-time ACC Defensive Player of the Week and won IWLCA National Defensive Player of the Week honors on April 5.
• In 2021, Moreno finished second in the nation in goals against average (a career-best 6.65) and save percentage (a career-high .549). Her goals-against average was nearly three goals per game better than her career average entering the 2021 season (9.12).
• She is a two-time ACC Tournament MVP (2018, 2021) and three-time first-team All-ACC pick (2019, 2021, 2022).
• In the 2021 ACC Tournament, she earned MVP honors for the second time after leading the Tar Heels to three wins. Moreno allowed just 4.78 goals per game in three UNC victories, posting a save percentage of .611.

Tewaaraton Award Nominee List Includes Four Tar Heels
• Four UNC players, most of any school in the nation, led the 25-player nominee list for the 2022 Tewaaraton Award, the top individual honor in lacrosse, the Tewaaraton Foundation announced in late April.
• Tar Heels Ally Mastroianni (midfield), Taylor Moreno (goalie), Jamie Ortega (attack) and Emma Trenchard (four) all made the list for the second year in a row. Moreno and Ortega both were among the five finalists for the 2021 Tewaaraton Award.
• Seven Tar Heels had made the Tewaaraton watch list: Olivia Dirks, Mastroianni, Moreno, Emily Nalls, Ortega, Trenchard and Caitlyn Wurzburger.

Six Tar Heels On US National Team
• Head coach Jenny Levy and her staff have named the final 18-player roster that will represent the United States in this summer's World Lacrosse Women's World Championship, and six of the players are current or former UNC players who played as Tar Heels for Levy.
• The six Carolina players, most of any school in the nation, include goalie Caylee Waters (UNC '17), fifth-year senior defender Emma Trenchard ('22), graduate student midfielder Ally Mastroianni ('21), midfielder Marie McCool ('18), midfielder Emily Parros ('13) and attacker Molly Hendrick ('17).

Fedor Wins AD Scholar-Athlete Award
• Each school year, Carolina Athletics honors members of each varsity team as Athletic Director's Scholar-Athletes, recognizing one from each UNC team for outstanding academic achievement.
• Amanda Fedor, a senior exercise & sport science major from Vestal, N.Y., was the women's lacrosse winner for 2021-22.

Last Year
• Carolina went 20-1 overall in 2021, including 9-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, won its fifth consecutive ACC championship and made its 12th appearance in the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament final four.
• The Tar Heels made their ninth final four appearance in the last 12 NCAA Tournaments (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021).

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Players Mentioned

Andie Aldave

Olivia Dirks

Amanda Fedor

Sam Geiersbach

Scottie Rose Growney

Katie Hoeg

Ally Mastroianni

Taylor Moreno

Emily Nalls

Jamie Ortega

Emma Trenchard

Brooklyn Walker-Welch

Caitlyn Wurzburger