University of North Carolina Athletics
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Tickets On Sale For Jan. 18 First Pitch Dinner
December 4, 2024 | Baseball
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina Baseball will host its 16th annual First Pitch Dinner on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, inside the Blue Zone at Kenan Stadium with Tar Heel great and Seattle Mariners All-Star Kyle Seager returning as the key-note speaker.
The First Pitch Dinner, which serves as the unofficial kickoff event for the upcoming UNC baseball season, will include the opportunity to meet the 2025 team and preview the season ahead with the newly-extended fifth-year head coach Scott Forbes.
Tickets to the event can be purchased here.
Current members of the Diamond Heels will be available to sign autographs alongside a number of former UNC baseball lettermen who have gone on to professional careers that will return to Chapel Hill to be in attendance. A silent auction featuring sporting and non-sporting memorabilia and other giveaways will be conducted.
The MVP reception begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by the silent auction and meet and greet at 6:15 p.m., with dinner served around 7 p.m. Individual tickets for the event range from $50 to $180. Table sponsorships are available for $1,500 and include eight guests with two members of the 2025 team and eight MVP reception tickets.
Seager enjoyed three great seasons as a Tar Heel where he notched a .353 batting average with 155 runs and 258 hits to help the team reach the College World Series all three years. His 30 doubles as a sophomore still stands as the single-season program record 16 years later and the 66 across his career is the second most all-time.
While in Chapel Hill, he earned second-team All-America, All-Atlantic Region, All-ACC, and All-College World Series Team honors before being selected in the third round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners. He would debut for the big league club in 2011, spending his entire 11-year career in Seattle playing 1,480 games, hitting .251, and scoring 705 runs. 2014 was the pinnacle year in the majors for Seager, as he was named to the AL All-Star Team and earned a Rawlings Gold Glove for his excellent play at third base for the Mariners.
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The First Pitch Dinner, which serves as the unofficial kickoff event for the upcoming UNC baseball season, will include the opportunity to meet the 2025 team and preview the season ahead with the newly-extended fifth-year head coach Scott Forbes.
Tickets to the event can be purchased here.
Current members of the Diamond Heels will be available to sign autographs alongside a number of former UNC baseball lettermen who have gone on to professional careers that will return to Chapel Hill to be in attendance. A silent auction featuring sporting and non-sporting memorabilia and other giveaways will be conducted.
The MVP reception begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by the silent auction and meet and greet at 6:15 p.m., with dinner served around 7 p.m. Individual tickets for the event range from $50 to $180. Table sponsorships are available for $1,500 and include eight guests with two members of the 2025 team and eight MVP reception tickets.
Seager enjoyed three great seasons as a Tar Heel where he notched a .353 batting average with 155 runs and 258 hits to help the team reach the College World Series all three years. His 30 doubles as a sophomore still stands as the single-season program record 16 years later and the 66 across his career is the second most all-time.
While in Chapel Hill, he earned second-team All-America, All-Atlantic Region, All-ACC, and All-College World Series Team honors before being selected in the third round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners. He would debut for the big league club in 2011, spending his entire 11-year career in Seattle playing 1,480 games, hitting .251, and scoring 705 runs. 2014 was the pinnacle year in the majors for Seager, as he was named to the AL All-Star Team and earned a Rawlings Gold Glove for his excellent play at third base for the Mariners.
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