Looking Back on an Excellent Season North Carolina finished the season 20-6 and as the NCAA runner-up after 2016 Schedule and Results falling to Delaware in the 2016 NCAA Championship game. The Tar Heels Date Opponent Site Time/Result reached the final four for the eighth year in a row and 21st time overall and ACC-Big Ten Challenge then advanced to the title game with a 2-1 overtime win over Connecticut in 8/27 Vs. Michigan Winston-Salem, N.C. L, 1-0 the semifinal. Carolina, the runner-up in the 2016 ACC Tournament, reached the NCAA 8/28 Vs. Iowa Winston-Salem, N.C. W, 4-1 field via an at-large bid. The Tar Heels were unseeded and opened tournament 9/2 At Princeton Princeton, N.J. W, 2-1 play on the road for the first time since 2009. 9/4 At Penn Philadelphia, Pa. W, 6-2 The NCAA Tournament appearance was UNC’s 33rd, more than any other program. UNC is a six-time NCAA Champion and has finished as the NCAA 9/10 Wake Forest * Chapel Hill W, 4-1 runner-up in the past two seasons. 9/11 VCU Chapel Hill W, 6-0 9/16 At Boston College* Newton, Mass. L, 2-1 Fast Facts on UNC 9/18 At Maine Orono, Maine W, 3-1 Final 2016 record: 20-6 (3-3 ACC) 9/23 Syracuse * Chapel Hill W, 3-2, 2OT Final NFHCA poll ranking: 4th (Nov. 8 poll) 9/25 Duke Chapel Hill W, 3-2 Head Coach: Karen Shelton (36th season at UNC) Record at UNC and overall: 628-159-9 10/2 Michigan Chapel Hill W, 5-1 Staff: Grant Fulton, Associate Head Coach; Mark Atherton, Assistant 10/4 At Davidson Davidson, N.C. W, 6-0 Coach; Laree Beans, Assistant Coach; Emily Wold, Undergraduate Assistant 10/7 Virginia Chapel Hill W, 3-2, OT Coach 10/15 At Louisville * Louisville, Ky. L, 1-0 Team Captains: Julia Young, Captain; Emma Bozek and Lauren Moyer, 10/16 At Miami (Ohio) Oxford, Ohio W, 6-0 Vice Captains ACC Titles: 19 (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 10/22 At Duke * Durham, N.C. L, 3-0 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015) 10/23 At Liberty Lynchburg, Va. W, 5-1 NCAA Titles: Six (1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009) 10/29 At Old Dominion Norfolk, Va. W, 2-0 Conference: Atlantic Coast 10/30 Appalachian State Chapel Hill W, 9-1 Home Stadium: Francis E. Henry Stadium (Capacity 1,086) * – Atlantic Coast Conference games Quick Hits • UNC reached the championship game for the 17th time in school history. 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship The Tar Heels are now 6-11 in NCAA title games. They last won in 2009 and Nov. 3 Louisville Winston-Salem, N.C. W, 3-2 have finished as NCAA runner-up five times since then, in 2010, 2011, 2012, Nov. 4 Duke Winston-Salem, N.C. W, 3-2 2015 and 2016. Nov. 6 Virginia Winston-Salem, N.C. L, 4-2 • Carolina played in its eighth consecutive final four, ninth in the past 10 years, and 21st in school history. • UNC made a record 33rd appearance in the NCAA Tournament field. The 2016 NCAA Division I Championship Tar Heels also hold the record for NCAA Tournament games played with 87, Nov. 12 Stanford College Park, Md. W, 3-0 all under coach Karen Shelton. Nov. 13 Maryland College Park, Md. W, 3-0 • The Tar Heels have 60 NCAA Tournament wins, more than any other Nov. 18 Connecticut Norfolk, Va. W, 2-1 OT school. Maryland is second with 57 and Old Dominion is third with 50. Nov. 20 Delaware Norfolk, Va. L, 3-2 • North Carolina is 60-27 all time in NCAA Tournament play. • Tar Heel alum Carrie Lingo was inducted into the U.S. Field Hockey Hall of Fame on Nov. 19 in Norfolk, Va. Lingo, a U.S. National Team member * – Atlantic Coast Conference games from 2001-12, played in the NCAA Championship game in Norfolk in 2000, when Carolina lost to ODU. She’s one of numerous Tar Heels from the state of Delaware, long a source of great field hockey talent. • UNC’s leading scorer, Lauren Moyer, finished the year with more than twice as many goals (24) than in her freshman, sophomore and junior sea- UNC Athletic Communications sons combined (10). She scored as many goals in the ACC quarterfinal game Field Hockey Contact: Dana Gelin (three) as she did in all of her junior season. [email protected] • 919-455-8289 • Sam Night, a junior forward, was inducted into UNC’s Phi Beta Kappa honorary society chapter on Monday before the final four. A public policy major from Hous- ton, Night graduated from UNC in December. 2016 Honors and Awards • Carolina opened the season ranked No. 1 in the NFHCA National Coaches Poll and re- mained in the top five all season. All-America • Senior Julia Young was named the 2016 ACC Defensive Player of the Year. She’s the First Team: Julia Young third Tar Heel to win the honor. The other two (Rachel Dawson and Caitlin Van Sickle) rep- Second Team: Emma Bozek resented the U.S. in Rio last summer. Third Team: Lauren Moyer • Five Tar Heels earned 2016 All-ACC Honors, including all three who serve as part of the captains group. Team captain Julia Young and vice captains Emma Bozek and Lauren Moyer, all seniors, were named to the first team. Sophomores Malin Evert and Eva van’t Hoog were All-South Region named to the second team. First Team: Emma Bozek, Ashley Hoff- • Emma Bozek was one of 38 seniors selected for the Victory Sports Tours/NFHCA Di- man, Lauren Moyer, Julia Young vision I Senior Game. However, since UNC reached the final four as a team, she did not Second Team: Malin Evert, Eva van’t compete in the game. Hoog • UNC’s 86 goals during the season came from 14 different players. Eight of those players didn’t score a single goal last season. All-NCAA Tournament • The Tar Heels beat the nation’s No. 1 and No. 2 teams in back-to-back games in Septem- Malin Evert, Lauren Moyer, Julia Young ber, defeating top-ranked Syracuse 3-2 in double overtime on Sept. 23 and second-ranked Duke 3-2 on Sept. 25. Both of those games were played in Chapel Hill. ACC Defensive Player of the Year UNC’s Statistical Leaders Julia Young Goals: Lauren Moyer 24, Gab Major 9, Ashley Hoffman 9, Eva van’t Hoog 8 Assists: Gab Major 10, Julia Young 10, Ashley Hoffman 10 All-ACC Points: Moyer 51, Major 28, Hoffman 28, van’t Hoog 21, Malin Evert 21 First Team: Emma Bozek, Lauren Moyer, Julia Young UNC in the NCAA Tournament Second Team: Malin Evert, Eva van’t The 2016 Tar Heels reached the NCAA Tournament field for the 33rd time in program his- Hoog tory, more than any other school. UNC also has played in more tournament games (87) and won more tournament games (60) than any other school. All-ACC Tournament UNC reached the field for the 14th year in a row. Ashley Hoffman, Lauren Moyer, Julia • In 2016, the Tar Heels opened NCAA Tournament play on the road for the first time since Young 2009. That year, UNC played first and second round games in Winston-Salem, N.C., then returned there for the final four and won the program’s sixth and most recent NCAA title. In Preseason All-ACC 2016, Carolina opened in College Park, Md., defeating Stanford in the first round and host Maryland in the second, both 3-0. Emma Bozek, Julia Young NFHCA National Def. Player of the Championship Game Recap Nov. 20, 2016: No. 8 Delaware 3, No. 4 UNC 2 Week NORFOLK, Va. – Delaware’s Greta Nauck scored the gamewinning goal with less than six Julia Young (Sept. 28) minutes remaining on the clock Sunday afternoon to earn her team a 3-2 win over North Carolina in the NCAA Field Hockey Championship, played at Old Dominion’s L.R. Hill Sports Complex. ACC Offensive Player of the Week The fourth-ranked Tar Heels rallied from a 2-0 halftime deficit to tie the score in the 63rd minute Lauren Moyer (Sept. 27) of play, but Nauck’s goal just over a minute later proved to be the deciding factor. No. 8 Delaware finished the year 23-2 with the first NCAA championship in program history. ACC Defensive Player of the Week UNC wrapped up at 20-6, falling in the title game for the second year in a row. Julia Young (Sept. 27) “Congratulations to the University of Delaware for winning the national championship,” UNC Ashley Hoffman (Oct. 4) coach Karen Shelton said. “It was a hard-fought game and it was fun to be a part of it, but it’s heartbreaking for our Tar Heels. It’s been a really, really fun ride for our group, an up-and-down season and one in which we came together at the end. I couldn’t be prouder of our group and our ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year seniors that led the way.” Emma Bozek The game was the final one in Carolina blue for eight Tar Heels: Kristy Bernatchez, Emma Bozek, Blissie Du Bose, Shannon Johnson, Lauren Moyer, Sam Night, Caroline Plyler and Julia All-ACC Academic Young. Emma Bozek, Malin Evert, Ashley Hoff- Delaware took an early lead in the 10th minute of play on an unassisted goal by Nauck, who man, Sam Night, Julia Young shot from the top of the circle to put her team up 1-0.