FIELD HOCKEY 2021 GAME NOTES >> 9 NCAA Championships >> 23 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships SCHEDULE/RESULTS UNC at the Big Ten/ACC Challenge: Aug. 27 and 29, 2021 0-0 OVERALL, 0-0 ACC 0-0 HOME • 0-0 AWAY • 0-0 NEUTRAL North Carolina Tar Heels (0-0) ALL-TIME SERIES Head Coach: Karen Shelton (West Chester, 1979) UNC leads UM 25-5 Record at North Carolina: 711-165-9 (41st season) UNC leads Iowa 31-3 Date Opponent Time/Result Career Record: Same Aug. 27 vs. #2 Michigan* 2 PM LAST MEETINGS • UNC beat Michigan 4-3 Aug. 29 at #3 Iowa* (BTN+) Noon OT on May 9, 2021 vs. • UNC beat Iowa 3-0 on Sept. 3 at Princeton^ 2:30 PM Michigan (0-0) May 7, 2021 Head Coach: Marcia Pankratz Sept. 5 vs. Penn^ 11 AM Record at Michigan: 317-137 (22nd season) GAME COVERAGE Sept. 10 at Saint Joseph’s 4 PM Career Record: Same Iowa game TV: Big Ten Network + Sept. 12 at Drexel Noon Iowa (0-0) Sept. 19 Miami (Ohio) 1 PM Head Coach: Lisa Cellucci Sept. 24 Boston College (RSN) 4 PM Record at Iowa: 82-53 (Eighth season) Career Record: Same Sept. 26 UConn 1 PM Oct. 1 at Syracuse (ACCN) 4 PM QUICK HITS Oct. 3 at Albany 11:30 AM • The Tar Heels are opening this season with a mirror image of the last one: They wrapped up the Oct. 8 Duke 7 PM extended 2020-21 campaign against Michigan in the NCAA title game after facing Iowa in the Oct. 10 Liberty (ACCN) 3 PM semis. UNC starts 2021 against Michigan on Aug. 27 before taking on Iowa on Aug. 29. Oct. 15 at Wake Forest (ACCN) 5 PM • The Big Ten/ACC Challenge includes the top three teams in the NFHCA preseason poll, with UNC No. 1, Michigan No.2 and Iowa No. 3. Wake Forest, the fourth team in the event, starts the Oct. 22 Louisville 4 PM season at No. 11. Oct. 29 at Virginia 5 PM • The Tar Heels have won the last three NCAA titles, completing the second three-peat in program history, following the 1995, 1996 and 1997 titles. No school has won four in a row. ACC Tournament (Syracuse, N.Y.) • While graduation left significant holes on defense as the Tar Heels no longer have All-America Nov. 4 Quarterfinals TBA goalkeeper Amanda Hendry and starting defender Courtnie Williamson, they return all but one Nov. 5 Semifinals TBA player who scored a goal last season. Bryn Boylan, who has graduated, had six goals last season, including a 4-for-4 performance in penalty strokes. The other 59 goals last season came from Nov. 7 Championship TBA players who are part of the 2021 roster. • Senior forward Erin Matson, the 2019 and 2020 National Player of the Year and Honda Award NCAA Tournament winner, enters the weekend within striking distance of UNC’s career records for scoring and goals. Nov. 12 First Round TBA She heads into Friday’s game with 82 career goals, two behind all-time leader Cindy Werley’s 84. Nov. 14 Second Round TBA Her current total of 207 career points is five behind Werley’s 212. Nov. 19 Semifinals % TBA • Matson and Cassie Sumfest, a senior athletically and graduate student academically, were voted Nov. 21 Championship % TBA by their teammates as the 2021 captains. Matson serves as captain and Sumfest as vice captain. • Matson and senior Meredith Sholder were named to the Preseason All-ACC team. BOLD home game at Karen Shelton Stadium • UNC opens the season with three weekends on the road before playing at home for the first time * Big Ten/ACC Challenge in Iowa City, Iowa on Sept. 19. ^ ACC/Ivy Conference Crossover in Princeton, N.J. % Ann Arbor, Mich. STATS LEADERS BY THE NUMBERS (2020 season) TV designations in ( ) »Goals Erin Matson needs to Goals: Erin Matson 29, Cassie Sumfest become UNC’s all-time leader All times Eastern and subject to change 6, Paityn Wirth 6, Bryn Boylan 6, Eva in goals scored. She has 82 Rankings are NFHCA poll at time of game Smolenaars 5 career goals after 63 games Assists: Romea Riccardo 10, Madison 3 as a Tar Heel. Orobono 8, Erin Matson 8, Points: Erin Matson 62, Paityn Wirth 21, » UNC Athletic Communications NCAA titles for UNC, tied Field Hockey Contact: Dana Gelin Cassie Sumfest 14, Madison Orobono 12, with ODU for the most by any [email protected], 919-455-8289 Eva Smolenaars 11, Hannah Griggs 11 team. The Tar Heels have won the past three for their second FOLLOW @UNCFIELDHOCKEY 9 three-peat in school history. »Seasons for Karen Shelton at the Tar Heel helm. She is the winningest coach in NCAA #GoHeels field hockey history with 711 41 career victories. BIG TEN/ACC CHALLENGE » AUG. 27 & 29, 2021 Fast Facts The Rivalries University of North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Wolverines North Carolina vs. Michigan: Location ...........................................................................Chapel Hill, N.C. • UNC leads the series with the UNC leads the series 25-5 Chartered........................................................................................... 1789 Wolverines 25-5. Date Result Site Undergraduate Enrollment ........................................................... 19,355 Chancellor ..................................................................... Kevin Guskiewicz • Friday’s matchup makes it 9/6/97 UNC, 6-3 Ann Arbor, Mich. Director of Athletics ................................................. Bubba Cunningham back-to-back games against the 8/28/99 UNC, 4-1 Chapel Hill Faculty Athletic Representative ........................................ Lissa Broome Wolverines. The teams also met in 9/3/00 UNC, 2-0 St. Louis, Mo. Senior Woman Administrator .................................... Marielle vanGelder the final game of the 2020 season, 10/13/00 UNC, 4-0 Chapel Hill Affiliation ..........................................................................NCAA Division I 9/8/01 UNC, 2-1 Philadelphia Conference ...................................................... Atlantic Coast Conference with UNC winning 4-3 in overtime Nickname....................................................................................Tar Heels in the national championship game 11/10/01 UM, 5-2 * Ann Arbor, Mich. School colors .......................................................Carolina blue and white on May 9, 2021. 8/31/02 UM, 2-0 Chapel Hill Athletic department phone ..............................................(919) 962-6000 8/31/03 UNC, 4-0 Ann Arbor • UNC and Michigan have opened Athletic department website.............................................. GoHeels.com 11/15/03 UM, 2-1 * East Lansing, Mich. the season against each other in 8/28/04 UNC, 3-2 Ann Arbor 16 of the past 18 years, with the 8/27/05 UNC, 2-0 Iowa City, Iowa Carolina Field Hockey exceptions 2013 (when the Tar 8/26/06 UNC, 3-1 Chapel Hill Head Coach .....................................Karen Shelton (41st season at UNC) Heels and Wolverines faced off in Career Record ...........................................................................711-165-9 8/25/07 UNC, 3-1 Ann Arbor Record at UNC .................................................................................Same the second weekend of the season, 8/30/08 UNC, 6-0 Winston-Salem, N.C. Associate Head Coach ..................... Grant Fulton (17th season at UNC) in UNC’s third game) and last 8/29/09 UNC, 2-1 Iowa City, Iowa Assistant Coach ........................ Robbert Schenk (Third season at UNC) season, when Carolina played only 8/28/10 UNC, 3-0 Chapel Hill Performance Analyst..................................................................Chris Fry 8/27/11 UNC, 5-0 Ann Arbor Volunteer Assistant Coach ............................................. Guy Butler-Felton ACC opponents in the fall. The first Team Captains ........................................................ Erin Matson (captain) season-opening meeting between 10/23/11 UNC, 4-3 2OT Chapel Hill .....................................................................Cassie Sumfest (vice captain) the two was in 2002. 11/13/11 UNC, 5-1 * Chapel Hill • Michigan was UNC’s first 8/25/12 UNC, 5-1 Winston-Salem, N.C. opponent at its current home 9/7/13 UNC, 7-2 Iowa City, Iowa Program History 8/30/14 UNC, 5-1 Chapel Hill National Championships ....................................................................... 9 facility, Karen Shelton Stadium, 8/29/15 UNC, 2-1 Ann Arbor, Mich. 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009, 2018, 2019, 2020 when the two faced off on Aug. 25, ACC Tournament Championships ...................................................... 23 11/15/15 UNC, 1-0 * Chapel Hill 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2018, in that year’s ACC/Big Ten 8/27/16 UM, 1-0 Winston-Salem, N.C. 1996, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Challenge. 8/26/17 UM, 3-2 Iowa City, Iowa • The teams’ last regular-season 8/25/18 UNC, 5-1 Chapel Hill Team Information matchup was the 2019 season 11/11/18 UNC, 5-2 * Chapel HIll 2020 record .......................................19-1 (4-1 ACC fall, 5-0 ACC spring) opener in Ann Arbor, Mich., as part 8/31/19 UNC, 4-2 Ann Arbor 2020 ACC Tournament .............................................................Champion of the Challenge. Michigan led 1-0 5/9/21 UNC, 4-3 OT* Chapel Hill (Beat Boston College 4-0 in quarterfinals; Beat Syracuse 4-3 OT in early, but Erin Matson scored a hat semifinals; Beat Louisville 4-2 in championship) North Carolina vs. Iowa: 2020 NCAA Tournament .........................................................Champion trick and Marissa Creatore added UNC leads the series 31-3 (First-round bye; Beat Stanford 2-0 in second round; Beat Iowa 3-0 in one more to power the Tar Heels to Date Result Site semifinals; Beat Michigan 4-3 OT in championship) a 4-2 comeback win. 9/22/84 UNC 2-1 Philadelphia 9/19/86 UNC 4-1 Chapel Hill Tar Heels vs. Hawkeyes 9/26/87 UNC 5-0 Norfolk, Va. Athletic Communications 9/22/88 UNC 2-0 Chapel Hill Field hockey contact ................................................Dana Gelin • UNC leads the series with the 11/18/89 UNC 1-0* Springfield, Mass. ...................................................dgelin@unc.edu Email address Hawkeyes 31-3. 9/23/90 UNC 2-1 Norfolk, Va. Cell phone .......................................................... (919) 455-8289 • The teams traditionally meet 9/12/92 Iowa 4-1 Philadelphia Mailing address .............P.O.