MARIANA LUCENA. ALL-ACC Ashley Verplank - 8th - 20:23.4 Evan Watchempino - 11th - 23:40.1 Adam Cunningham - 12th - 23:42.1

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1 Carolina Track and Field 2009 Cross Country Recap 2009 CROSS COUNTRY HONORS ALL-REGION Ashley Verplank - 20th - 21:14.34 Lauren Holesh - 23rd - 21:22.24 Mariana Lucena - 24th - 21:24.49 Adam Cunningham - 17th - 30:46.85 Evan Watchempino - 22nd - 30:57.30 ALL-ACC Ashley Verplank - 8th - 20:23.4 Evan Watchempino - 11th - 23:40.1 Adam Cunningham - 12th - 23:42.1 Carolina Cross Country Welcomes New Coach Head Coach Peter Watson took the helm of the 2009 men s and women s cross country teams after four years of expereince at Auburn and volunteer coaching experience at his alma mater West Virginia. While at Auburn, Watson coached runners to five Southeastern Conference titles, nine All-America honors, 31 NCAA qualifying marks, and five school and 10 freshmen school records. His other coaching accomplishments include coaching a freshman to win the 2008 SEC title, taking the 2008 NCAA South Region men s and women s championships, and coaching a 2007 NCAA regional men s individual title. Tar Heels Open Season at Covered Bridge Open The men s and women s cross country teams showed that they were ready to get to work in the 2009 season after taking third and second place finishes, respectively, in Boone, N.C. The women took four top-20 finishes, led by freshman Mariana Lucena who opened her career at Carolina by capturing fourth place in 18:27.50 for the 5K. Redshirt sophomore Adam Cunningham placed highest among the men at sixth in the four-mile race. teams at the meet in Terre Haute, Ind., the site of the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Lauren Holesh broke her 6K personal record in her 10th place finish by nearly a minute and a half at 20:51.6. The men finished 21st in a result Coach Watson said did not reflect how hard they competed. Evan Watchempino led the men with his 41st finish of 24:24.5 in the 8K. Women Break Into National Rankings The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association released the fourth week of national rankings, placing the women in the 28th slot. The votes came on the heels of the women s performances at the NCAA Pre-National Meet. Women Take Fifth, Men Sixth at ACCs The 2009 ACC Championships showed well for the Tar Heels, earning 13 personal records for the men s and women s teams. Ashley Verplank took her first top-10 finish of the season when she captured All-ACC honors in eighth place and a PR of 20:23.4 in the 6K. Other PRs for the women included Mariana Lucena (21:26.7), sophomore Callan Fike (21:32.3), freshman Courtney Whittington (22:38.0), freshman Nicole Suarez (23:25.5), sophomore Michelle Lutz (23:48.0), and freshman Alexa Gellman (24:33.0). Evan Watchempino and Adam Cunningham went onetwo for Carolina, finishing 11th and 12th with All-ACC honors. They each tagged PRs, Watchempino at 23:40.1 and Cunningham at 23:42.1 in the 8000-meter event. Other PRs for the men included redshirt sophomore John Curtiss (24:54.4), sophomore Kyle Milks (25:05.6), junior Sam Pompei (25:27.6), and freshman Logan Rosenberg (25:28.3). Strong Individual Wins at UNC Challenge Mariana Lucena, in only her second collegiate race, and Evan Watchempino, in his first race of the season, took the women s and men s individual titles at the program s only home meet of the season. Lucena highlighted the day with a personal record of 17:30.90, her first time ever to break 18-minutes in the 5000-meters. Watchempino took first place for a second straight year of the event with a final of 24: Carolina Shows Strides at Notre Dame Invite The Notre Dame Invitational was the first sight of nationally ranked competition the Tar Heels faced all season, and both teams seemed ready to prove that they belonged. Senior Lauren Holesh led the women with a personal best 17:02 in the 5K to take 11th overall. Sophomore Evan Watchempino shouldered the men s team with his 18th place finish in 24:14 for the 8K. Coach Watson commended Watchempino and Adam Cunningham for their performances against multiple All-Americas in the field as well as sophomore Ashley Verplank for her first race of the season. Verplank finished 39th in 17:25, easily moving up about 70 positions and 30 seconds from her finish as a freshman. Women Take Eighth Place at Pre-National The Tar Heel women sparked an eighth place finish among 37 teams and accomplished their goal of breaking into the top-10 team finishes. The women s team beat out four top-30 ranked MARIANA LUCENA No At-Large Bids After Finishes at NCAA Southeast Regional The women finished fifth and the men took sixth at the 2009 regional held in Louisville, Kent., but neither team finishes nor individual finishes were enough to earn automatic or at-large bids granted by the NCAA committee. Ashley Verplank, Adam Cunningham and Evan Watchempino all took home All-Region honors for their individual performances. Verplank finished 20th to lead the Tar Heel women. Cunningham took a fast-paced 17thplace finish for the only 10K event of the season. Watchempino took 22nd. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

2 2009 Women s Schedule Cross Carolina Country Track Carolina and FieldTrack and Field From L to R: M. Lucena, L. Holesh, M. Lutz, V. Wallington, C. Hayes, A. Verplank, N. Suarez, C. Whittington, C. Fike, C. Kirby, A. Gellman Covered Bridge Open - 5K September 5 Asheville, N.C. Mariana Lucena 18: th Cara Hayes 19: th Michelle Lutz 19: th Alexa Gellman 19: st Courtney Whittington 19: th Team Finish: 2nd UNC Challenge - 5K September 18 Chapel Hill, N.C. Mariana Lucena 17: st Caroline Kirby (UA) 17: th Cara Hayes 18: th Nicole Suarez 18: th Michelle Lutz 18: th Courtney Whittington 18: th Alexa Gellman 19: th Team Finish: 2nd Notre Dame Invite - 5K October 2 South Bend, Ind. Lauren Holesh 17:02 11th Ashley Verplank 17:25 38th Mariana Lucena 17:44 71st Callan Fike 18:10 101st Michelle Lutz 18:22 115th Cara Hayes 18:27 122nd Nicole Suarez 19:25 169th Team Finish: 12th NCAA Pre-National - 6K October 17 Terre Haute, Ind. Cara Hayes 20: th Ashley Verplank 21: th Mariana Lucena 21: th Callan Fike 22: th Lea Anna Godwin 22: th Michelle Lutz 22: th Veronica Wallington 23: th Team Finish: 8th ACC Championship - 6K October 31 Raleigh, N.C. Ashley Verplank 20:23.4 8th Mariana Lucena 21: th Callan Fike 21: st Lauren Holesh 21: th Cara Hayes 21: nd Courtney Whittington 22: th Nicole Suarez 23: th Michelle Lutz 23: nd Alexa Gellman 24: nd Team Finish: 5th NCAA Regional - 6K November 14 Louisville, Kent. Ashley Verplank 21: th Lauren Holesh 21: rd Mariana Lucena 21: th Alexa Gellman 21: st Cara Hayes 22: th Courtney Whittington 23: th Team Finish: 5th Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

3 Carolina Track and Field 2009 Men s Cross Country From L to R: S. Crawford, E. Watchempino, L. Rosenberg, J. Curtiss, K. Milks, Z. Dawson, A. Cunningham, S. Pompei Covered Bridge Open - 4 Miles September 5 Asheville, N.C. Adam Cunningham 19: th Zack Dawson 20: th John Curtiss 20: rd Sam Pompei 21: th Logen Rosenberg 21: rd Team Finish: 3rd UNC Challenge - 8K September 18 Chapel Hill, N.C. Evan Watchempino 24: st Adam Cunningham 25: th Zack Dawson 25: th Logen Rosenberg 27: th Seth Crawford (UA) 27: th Team Finish: 2nd Notre Dame Invite - 5 Miles October 2 South Bend, Ind. Evan Watchempino 24:14 18th Adam Cunningham 24:20 26th Zack Dawson 24:52 59th Sam Pompei 26:13 150th Logen Rosenberg 26:29 163rd John Curtiss 26:31 165th Team Finish: 15th NCAA Pre-National - 8K October 17 Terre Haute, Ind. Evan Watchempino 24: st Zack Dawson 25: th Adam Cunningham 25: th Kyle Milks 26: th Logan Rosenberg 26: th Team Finish: 21st ACC Championship - 8K October 31 Raleigh, N.C. Evan Watchempino 23: th Adam Cunningham 23: th John Curtiss 24: th Zack Dawson 25: nd Kyle Milks 25: th Sam Pompei 25: st Logan Rosenberg 25: rd Team Finish: 6th NCAA Regional - 10K November 14 Louisville, Kent. Adam Cunningham 30: th Evan Watchempino 30: nd John Curtiss 31: th Zack Dawson 31: th Kyle Milks 32: th Sam Pompei 34: th Logan Rosenberg 34: st Team Finish: 6th Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

4 A 2009 Letter Schedule from Coach Carolina Craddock Track Carolina and FieldTrack and Field A Look Back at 2009 and 25 Years by: Head Coach Dennis Craddock The season was a good year in track and field: our women s team finished 12th in the country at the NCAA Indoor Championships; several of our men and women earned All-America honors by scoring at the NCAA Nationals meet; and as a team, we finished in the top division of the ACC for both teams at both indoors and outdoors. I thought because we have such a young team that we gave out of gas a little in the outdoor season. We still had a good season but the fire and enthusiasm was not there like we had in the indoor season. To be good at the ACC Championships, we have to have depth in all 18 events as just one or two people can t score enough points for us. We had some really good up-front points but just not enough at the back end to really help us. Daniel Keller became the first multi-event athlete to score and earn All-America honors in both indoor and outdoor track and field. Mateo Sossah also deserves special mention as he was NCAA runner-up in the decathlon. Mateo now holds the UNC school record and is the first Tar Heel to score over 8000 points in the decathlon. He also represented his native country of France in the IAAF World Championships in Berlin this past summer. Enough about last year. We are excited about the 2010 indoor and outdoor seasons. We have All- America men such as Donte Nall, Mateo Sossah, Dan Keller, Austin Davis along with All-ACC honored athletes Parker Smith, Scott Houston, Charles Cox, Adam Cunningham, Evan Watchempino, and Ed Baldwin, just to name a few. Add to that a good freshmen recruiting class and we have exactly what we need to build this program. We are capable of being in the top two of the ACC and the top 20 in the NCAA. On the women s side, our NCAA Champion, Brie Felnagle, is returning with an outdoor season of eligibility left. Brie will have help from senior Lauren Holesh, a 2008 All-America and 2009 All-Region in cross country. Even more depth comes from sophomore, 2009 All-ACC and All- Region Ashley Verplank who already showed as a freshman she can compete in the collegiate field. Add to that Dominique Jackson, an NCAA qualifier in the 800; Latoya James, an All America in the 400-meter hurdles; the All-America 4x400 relay of Callie Pottinger, Tasha Stanley, Elizabeth Mott and Christine Johnson; Patience Coleman, an All America in the high jump; Vanneisha Ivy, a twotime All America in the 60-meter hurdles and 100 hurdles; and finally our two heptathletes, Gabby Gioia and Alex Coppadge, who qualified for NCAAs. That formula equals a fantastic NCAA nucleus especially when the freshmen class is added. For the women, we want to win the ACC Championships and be a top-10 NCAA program. Many things have changed since I first arrived here from the University of Virginia in People, places, and things are supposed to change, as that goes with life. I was a high school coach for eight years before taking the job at UVA, and there was certainly change when I moved up to collegiate coaching. But with that change comes new opportunities, new dreams and new goals. As a coach for over 40 years, one thing that has not changed is my love of coaching and teaching young men and women. Faces change and talent grows, but the philosophy of having young people bond as a team, a family, will never change. I really believe in this atmosphere and I believe in the great enthusiasm we have for what we are trying to do. I will always want student athletes who excel in the classroom first and then perform well in their events not athletic students who think it is okay just to be good in sports. You can do both, and do both really well if you want to and apply yourself. I like to measure success with teams as to how much they achieved in being a team because if you have good leadership, good talent and add in good old-fashioned hard work, then the wins and championships will take care of themselves. Our sport is as much of an individual sport as you can get, so each athlete will naturally invest in what they are trying to do. But what they put in is always what they will get out. I watch the young people grow and mature in so many ways during college so it s not all about the winning or awards although who wouldn t love being successful? Finally, a head coach is only as good as his assistant coaches and student athletes. I am blessed to have such a wonderful staff and great student-athletes who believe in what we are trying to do here at Carolina. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

5 Carolina Track and Field Tradition Continuing the Tradition in Indoor All-Americas 4 Outdoor All-Americas 10 ACC Indoor Champions 15 All-ACC Indoor Honorees 4 ACC Outdoor Champions 20 All-ACC Outdoor Honorees 11 All-ACC Academic Plaudits Danielle Brock Adam Cunningham Tyler Ford Gabby Gioia Daniel Keller Elizabeth Mott Michelle Newman Callie Pottinger Parker Smith Malai Walker Ashley Verplank 2009 ACC Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year Brie Felnagle 23 New All-Time Top Marks Heptathlon - Daniel Keller Indoor 60 Meters - Vanneisha Ivy Indoor Mile - Brie Felnagle Indoor 60 Hurldes - Vanneisha Ivy (3) Women s Distance Medley Relay Indoor Pole Vault - Abby Kimball Pentathlon - Alexandra Coppadge (2) Outdoor Long Jump - Edward Baldwin III Outdoor Triple Jump - Austin Davis (3) Decathlon - Mateo Sossah (2) and Daniel Keller Outdoor 100 Hurdles - Vanneisha Ivy (3) Outdoor 400 Hurdles - LaToya James Heptathlon - Alexandra Coppadge 7 USTFCCCA Academic All-Americas Adam Cunningham Tyler Ford Gabby Gioia Elizabeth Mott Callie Pottinger Malai Walker Ashley Verpank Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

6 2009 Indoor Schedule Season Carolina Review Track Carolina and Field Track and Field ACC Women s Indoor Championships February 26 - February 28 Blacksburg, Va. - Virginia Tech 1. Florida State North Carolina Clemson Virginia Tech Miami NC State Georgia Tech Virginia Duke Wake Forest Boston College Maryland...10 ACC Champions Brie Felnagle (3000), Christine Johnson (4x400 Relay), Elizabeth Mott (4x400 Relay), Callie Pottinger (4x400 Relay), Tasha Stanley (4x400 Relay) All-ACC Honorees Brie Felnagle (DMR), Callan Fike (DMR), Vanneisha Ivy (60-Hurdles), Dominique Jackson (800 and DMR), Christine Johnson (400), Cierra McGee (DMR), Elizabeth Mott (400), Becky O Brien (Shot Put), Callie Pottinger (800) NCAA Women s Indoor Championships March 13 - March 14 College Station, Texas - Texas A&M University 1. Tennessee Texas A&M Brigham Young Texas Arizona State LSU Penn State Florida State...23 T9. Oregon...21 T9. Texas Tech...21 T12. North Carolina...14 All-America Honorees Brie Felnagle (5th, Mile and 2nd, DMR), Vanneisha Ivy (8th, 60-Hurdles), Christine Johnson (8th, 4x400 Relay), Elizabeth Mott (8th, 4x400 Relay and 2nd, DMR), Callie Pottinger (8th, 4x400 Relay and 2nd, DMR), Tasha Stanley (8th, 4x400 Relay), Ashley Verplank (8th, DMR) ACC Men s Indoor Championships February 26 - February 28 Blacksburg, Va. - Virginia Tech 1. Florida State Virginia Tech Virgina North Carolina Clemon NC State Wake Forest Georgia Tech Miami Duke Maryland Boston College...3 ACC Champions Ryan Booker (DMR), Adam Cunningham (DMR), Austin Davis (Triple Jump), Kyle Milks (DMR), Adam Smith (DMR) All-ACC Honoree Adam Smith (800) NCAA Men s Indoor Championships March 13 - March 14 College Station, Texas - Texas A&M University 1. Oregon Florida Florida State LSU...29 T5. Arizona State...25 T5. Baylor...25 T5. Nebraska Arkansas Texas A&M Texas T41. North Carolina...4 All-America Honorees Austin Davis (7th, Triple Jump), Daniel Keller (7th, Heptathlon) Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

7 Carolina Track and Field 2009 Outdoor Season Review ACC Women s Outdoor Championships April 16 - April 18 Miami, Fla. - Miami 1. Florida State Virginia Tech North Carolina Virginia Miami Georgia Tech NC State Clemson...44 T9. Wake Forest...35 T9. Maryland Duke Boston College...8 ACC Champions Patience Coleman (High Jump), Gabby Gioia (Heptathlon), Dominique Jackson (800) All-ACC Honorees Shardae Anderson (4x100 Relay and 4x400 Relay), Addie Bracy (Steeplechase), Alexandra Coppadge (Heptathlon), Tyler Ford (4x100 Relay and 4x400 Relay), Vanneisha Ivy (100-Hurdles), LaToya James (400-Hurdles and 4x400 Relay), Cierra McGee (4x100 Relay), Elizabeth Mott (4x400 Relay), Michelle Newman (Triple Jump), Tasha Stanley (800), Malai Walker (4x100 Relay) NCAA Women s Outdoor Championships June 10 - June 13 Fayetteville, Ark. - University of Arkansas 1. Texas A&M Oregon Arizona State Florida State Texas LSU Michigan Southern California Florida...23 T10.Baylor...21 T10. Tennessee...21 T47. North Carolina...5 All-America Honorees Vanneisha Ivy (6th, 100-Hurdles), Dominique Jackson (7th, 800) ACC Men s Outdoor Championships April 16 - April 18 Miami, Fla. - Miami T1. Virginia T1. Florida State Virginia Tech Georgia Tech North Carolina Clemson Duke Wake Forest Miami Maryland Boston College NC State...7 ACC Champion Mateo Sossah (Decathlon) All-ACC Honorees Charles Cox (400), Austin Davis (Long Jump), Scott Houston (Pole Vault), Daniel Keller (Decathlon), Parker Smith (Pole Vault) NCAA Men s Outdoor Championships June 10 - June 13 Fayetteville, Ark. - University of Arkansas 1. Texas A&M...48 T2. Oregon...46 T2. Florida...46 T2. Florida State LSU South Carolina Stanford Arizona State Arkansas Southern California North Carolina...9 All-America Honorees Mateo Sossah (2nd, Decathlon), Daniel Keller (8th, Decathlon) Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

8 Moments of 2009 Carolina Track and Field 2009 Schedule Carolina Track and Field A -ACC, ALL-AMERICA ALL ALL LL-A -AMERICA -A MERICA AND ACADEMIC ACADEMIC HONOREES HONOREES CHAMPIONSHIP RELAYS 18 NCAA QUALIFIERS INDIVIDUAL WINS AT THE 2009 UNC CHALLENGE Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide NCAA RUNNER-UP IN THE DECATHLON

9 Carolina Track and Field Tar Heel Footprints in History North Carolina s great tradition in track and field traces its roots back to 1900 when the men s team overwhelmed Davidson 125 1/2-11 1/2 in the first state championship at Horner s Park in Oxford. In 1901, the Tar Heels won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet in New Orleans, and in 1904 Carolina participated in its first Penn Relays. Carolina hosted its first dual meet in 1908 on what was then known as Lake Track, the state s first cinder track, built by Harry S. Lake in The track and field program continued to grow and thrive in the 1920s under the expert tutelage of coach and athletic director Robert A. Fetzer. Along with one of his early proteges, Dale Ranson, Fetzer helped form the foundations for a golden era of Tar Heel track. The Dixie Flyer Galen The Dixie Flyer Elliott was one of the first track standouts to call Chapel Hill home. He turned in the nation s fastest time in the mile in He received All-America honors that year, the first of a long list of Carolina performers to earn such national recognition. In 1928, Elliott teamed up with Hoyt Pritchett, Minor Barkley and June Fisher to win the national championship in the 4xMile relay, marking the first national title in UNC track and field history. It would be 19 years until Jack Milne won the NCAA cross country title to become the second Carolina national champion. Early Tar Heel Olympians Williamson distinguished himself as Carolina s first Olympian at the 1936 Berlin Games. He finished sixth in the 800 meters as part of the Jesse Owens-led American contingent, which dominated the field in Germany. Chunk Simmons, who competed in five different events for Carolina, was the bronze medalist in the decathlon at the 1948 London Olympics and the first Tar Heel to win an Olympic track medal. He repeated as bronze medalist four years later at the 1952 Helsinki Games to become UNC s first twotime Olympic medalist. Wild Bill Wild Bill Albans (right), who won more blue ribbons and set more school and conference records than anyone else in Carolina track history, joined Simmons at the 1948 London Games to compete as a triple jumper. Albans then returned to Chapel Hill and led the Tar Heels to the 1949 Southern Conference indoor championship with five firstplace finishes in sprinting, hurdling and jumping events. The next year he continued to prove his extreme athletic prowess, scoring more points than any other competitor at the NCAA Championships. His national championship in the 220- yard low hurdles helped Carolina to a third-place national finish. Tar Heel Distance Domination All-America middle distance runner Dave Scurlock competed from and won three straight Atlantic Coast Conference indoor and outdoor half-mile championships and placed second in the 1955 NCAA outdoor championships. Another standout of the 1950s was distance runner Jim Beatty (below), who became the first man to ever break the indoor four-minute ute mile barrier with a blistering mark of 3:58.9. He completely dominated his events in the ACC, winning the conference indoor mile and two-mile races three consecutive years and the outdoor mile title twice. Beatty initially retired from running after college but returned to the sport under the guidance of legendary Hungarian coach Mihaly Igloi. Beatty made the 1960 Olympic Team in the 5,000 meters, but a foot injury hampered him during his race. In 1962, he set three world records, including in the indoor mile and outdoor two mile. That same year, Beatty had a mindblowing 16- day stretch during which he set American records in the 1,500, mile, 3,000, three mile and 5,000, helping him to become the first American to simultaneously hold records in all events from the 1,500 to the 5,000. Beatty was awarded the James A. Sullivan Award that year as the nation s top amateur athlete. He remains the only Tar Heel athlete ever to receive this illustrious award. Coach Hilton Joe Hilton, an integral member of the Carolina staff since 1946, took the job as head coach in Hilton replaced Dale Ranson, who had been head coach since 1952 but whose coaching and competing career at UNC dated back to the 1920s. Hilton guided the Tar Heel program until he retired in 1981, a 19-year run that saw an astounding 77 individual ACC champions, two national champions and five All- Americas. Reggie McAfee Reggie McAfee (below), a three-time All-America in his era, is the Carolina record-holder for the 880-yard and 300-meter runs. McAfee won the ACC outdoor mile championship twice and also won the indoor mile and the 100-yard dash. The runner-up in the mile at the 1972 and 1973 NCAA indoor championships, McAfee finished third in the indoor mile at the 1973 national meet. In the 1973 World University Games, McAfee placed second in the 1,500. Carolina s First World Record At the 1949 Penn Relays, Albans and teammates Jack Moody, Dick Taylor and Bob Morrow set an American and world record of 58.6 seconds in the shuttle hurdle relay. The Tar Heels track and field team further enhanced their national standing the following year during the 1950 Penn Relays, when Bob Kirk won the javelin for the second consecutive year and the shuttle hurdles team of Albans, Moody, Morrow and Garrett Fitzgibbons repeated as champions. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

10 Tar 2009 Heel Schedule Footprints Carolina History Track Carolina and FieldTrack and Field Tony Waldrop Another mile specialist, Tony Waldrop (below), stunned the track world by running 11 consecutive sub-four minute miles in competitive races. During the streak, Waldrop set the world record mark at 3:55.0 at the San Diego Games and later ran a personal record of 3:53.2 at the Penn Relays. The incredible Waldrop won the 1973 indoor 1,000-yard run and the 1974 NCAA indoor mile championship, six ACC titles and a gold medal in the 1,500 at the Pan American Games. He received All-America honors in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Waldrop was named the 1974 ACC Athlete of the Year and was honored by the NCAA for his academic performance. He also garnered the Patterson Medal, symbolic of the University s most outstanding senior athlete. Allen Johnson In 1992, Allen Johnson (below) won the NCAA championship in the 55-meter indoor hurdles in a meet-record and Hoosier Dome-best 7.07 seconds. At the time, it was just the fourth individual national title in UNC track history. Johnson finished second at the NCAA Championships as a senior in both the 55-meter indoor hurdles and the 110-meter outdoor hurdles. He also set an ACC record in the long jump at the indoor championships when he sailed /2 to break the oldest existing conference record. The Distance King Ralph King, another member of Carolina s outstanding distance runner lineage, won four indoor and four outdoor ACC championships. The three-time All-America won the indoor mile title three times, the 1,500 and 5,000 twice each and the indoor two mile once. He also won the 1977 ACC cross country championship and still owns the Penn Relays 5K record of 13:32.5. A Family Affair From the Tar Heels won five consecutive ACC decathlon championships, and all five titles belong to one family. Kevin McGorty (below) won the ACC decathlon from , tying the conference record for most decathlon titles won. Dennis McGorty won two championships in Tony McCall Sprinter Tony McCall earned a pair of All-America honors as a freshman, as he was sixth in the 100 and seventh in the 200 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. That was only the beginning. During his career from , McCall earned All-America honors a remarkable 11 times. He also took home national championships in the 1,600-meter relay in 1995 and the 400-meter relay in McCall is still the fastest man in Carolina history. His record time of in the 100 meters has stood since 1997, and his record time of in the 200 has stood since During McCall s freshman year, the Tar Heels brought home the ACC outdoor title for the second time in three years in one of the most exciting finishes in history. The title was not secured until Ken Harnden (below) held off a Florida State competitor down the backstretch in the 1,600- meter relay. Harnden edged the Seminole by a step and Carolina held on to beat Florida State by a mere four points to win the team title. Two Titles in 1995 The 1995 season was one of the most successful in Tar Heel men s track history. Carolina claimed the ACC title both indoors and outdoors, tied for 11th place at the NCAA Indoor Championships and finished seventh at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Harnden won the NCAA title in the 400- meter hurdles, the first NCAA outdoor crown by a Tar Heel since Albans in He also teamed up with Milton Campbell, Henry McKoy and McCall to win the NCAA indoor title in the 1,600-meter relay. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

11 Carolina Track and Field Tar Heel Footprints in History Milton Campbell Milton Campbell (right) was one of the leaders of the powerhouse teams of the mid-1990s, and is the most decorated man in Carolina track history in terms of All-America honors. Campbell finished his career a 13-time All-America, including six indoors and seven outdoors. Additionally, he was a member of two national champion relay teams and won nine ACC titles. Campbell went on to win the 400 at both the 2004 and 2006 National Indoor Championships. Eric Bishop After Tony Waldrop s two national titles in 1973 and 1974, it took 23 years before another Tar Heel man won multiple individual national championships. That man was high jumper Eric Bishop (below), who captured the outdoor high jump crown in 1996, then won the indoor event the following winter. Bishop s 10 points for the win in 1996 helped lead the men s team to a fourth place overall finish, still its best ever performance at the NCAA Championships. A Title Worth the Wait At the 2003 NCAA Indoor Championships, high jumper Adam Shunk jumped 7-2 1/2 to what he thought was a second place finish. Months later, however, just before the NCAA Outdoor Championships that year, the man who beat Shunk was ruled ineligible, and the title was justly awarded to the Tar Heel. Tar Heel Women Enter the Fray The Carolina women s program was formed in 1975 and has steadily improved to the point where it stands today: one of the elite track and field teams in the country on a yearly basis. The first women s All-America arrived in 1981 as long jumper Lisa Staton placed seventh at the AIAW indoor nationals. Karen Stevenson set 14 school records and excelled in the classroom, as well. She was a two-time recipient of the Jim Tatum Award for her athletic and academic leadership. As well, Stevenson was a Morehead Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa graduate and became the first black woman to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. All-America Times Three Joan Nesbit was one of the greatest distance runners in Carolina history. At one point she held the school record in all four major distance events - the 1,500, 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000. She was the first Tar Heel woman to earn All-America honors in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. She also took ACC titles in the 3,000 and the 10,000 in The Dennis Craddock Era Dennis Craddock (below) left Virginia for Chapel Hill in 1985, and the Tar Heel women s program took off to never look back. Since the school year, the women have won at least one ACC title in all but two years under Craddock. They have never finished worse than third at the outdoor event, and they have never finished worse than second at the indoor championships. Two times and the Tar Heel women won the ACC Triple Crown - titles in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Feats of Strength Around the turn of the century, throwers dominated Carolina men s track and field. Allen Bradd was a two-time All-America in the shot put, and won six ACC titles in the shot put and the hammer. Kestutis Celesius was a 2000 All-America in the javelin, finishing third at the NCAA Championships, the highest ever finish for a Tar Heel in that event. Sal Gigante was an All-America in the weight throw, and Ian Douglas won four ACC shot put titles. Kim Austin From , Kim Austin had one of the greatest careers in Carolina and ACC history. She was a six-time All-America and an eight-time ACC champion in the triple jump and the 55- and 100-meter hurdles. During that time, Austin s teams won six ACC team titles and had a top-10 finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships in By the end of her career, she had established three ACC meet records and two school records. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

12 Tar 2009 Heel Schedule Footprints Carolina History Track Carolina and FieldTrack and Field Kendra Mackey Kendra Mackey (right) was one of the greatest sprinters in school history. An eight-time All- America, Mackey earned honors individually in the 200 and was a member of All-America 400- and 1,600-meter relay teams. Mackey won 13 individual and relay ACC titles and still ranks in the Carolina top five in five different events, including the 100 meters, an event in which she still possesses the record. Couch Takes Patterson Medal Sharon Couch (right) became the first Tar Heel women s track studentathlete to win the coveted Patterson Medal, awarded to the University s most outstanding senior athlete. Couch won eight ACC titles on her way to claiming MVP honors at three ACC Championships. She placed third in the long jump at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June 1992 to become Carolina s first female track Olympian, taking sixth place at the Barcelona Games. Couch would again reach the Olympics in 2000, this time as a 100-meter hurdler. Waller Wows Em High jumper Tisha Waller (left) rewrote the record book in She won both ACC championships, finished second at the NCAA meets and set ACC records both indoors and outdoors. Waller leaped 6-4 two consecutive weeks indoors and cleared 6-3 1/2 at Texas in the spring. The South Boston, Va. native also set the record at the Penn Relays and placed third at the TAC National Championships. Her school indoor and outdoor records still stand, as does her ACC outdoor record. She would end her career with five All-America honors and was the first Caroli na woman ever to win an international medal at the 1991 World University Games. Tar Heels Throw, Hurdle to Success in Early Nineties Carolina swept the ACC Championships in 1993 and 1994 behind a pair of All-Americas. Thrower Lynda Lipson established an ACC record in the discus and was a three-time All-America in the discus and javelin. She also finished in the top eight overall at the USA Track and Field Championships in both events, a rare and impressive throwing double. Lipson s teammate Ayo Atterberry was a four-time All-America, scoring in the NCAA meet three times as a hurdler and once in the 400-meter relay. Best Team in History? During the school year, Carolina produced what was arguably the greatest women s track team in ACC history. That team was the first in league history to win the ACC Triple Crown - titles in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Only the version of the Tar Heels has done it since. The legendary team was led by three future Olympians - LaTasha Colander, Monique Hennagan and Marion Jones. Carolina dominated both the indoor and outdoor ACC meets, winning the indoor meet by a whopping 104 points and the outdoor meet by a similarly staggering 81 points. First (And Second) Women s Title Since its launch in 1975, the Carolina women s track and field team compiled a number of great feats in its first two decades. However, for the first 21 years of the program s existence, it had failed to win an NCAA title. That stigma was shattered in a big way in 1996 when Monique Hennagan (left) won not one but two national championships. During the indoor season, she took the 400 meters title and then followed that up with the 800 crown in the outdoor season. Hennagan collected seven All-America honors in her career and represented the United States in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, winning gold in the 1,600-meter relay in Colander Stellar Indoors LaTasha Colander, who joined Hennagan on the 2000 and 2004 Olympic teams, finished her career with more indoor All-America honors than any other student-athlete in Carolina history. She would collect eight in total, including three in the 55-meter hurdles. She was named the Most Outstanding Performer at the 1995, 1997 and 1998 ACC Indoor Championships, as well as the 1997 outdoor event. Colander was also a four-time outdoor All-America, including back-to-back honors in the 100-meter hurdles in 1995 and Jones and Moore Jump To Glory North Carolina established itself as a women s jump powerhouse in the nineties behind the incomparable efforts of Marion Jones and Tyra Moore. Jones was twice a long jump All-America and won a pair of ACC titles in the event. Moore was a seven-time All-America in the long jump and triple jump, and a five-time ACC champion. Christopher and Gamble Carry the Torch Where Jones and Moore left off, LaShonda Christopher (right) and Nicole Gamble picked right back up. From , the duo owned the jumping events in the ACC. Christopher would finish with six ACC titles, Gamble with eight. Christopher earned 12 All-America honors to 13 for Gamble, two of the highest totals in school history. The crowning achievement for the Tar Heel jumpers came in 1999, when Nicole Gamble was the NCAA champion in the indoor triple jump. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide

13 Carolina Track and Field Tar Heel Footprints in History ACC 50th Anniversary Celebration To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the league chose the all-time greatest performers in each sport, as well as a list of the 50 Greatest Athletes in ACC history. UNC dominated the lists, and the storied Tar Heel track and field program played a big part in that domination. North Carolina sported a combined 63 selections from men s and women s indoor track, outdoor track and cross country teams. The Tar Heels also had three track stars named to the 50 Greatest Athletes on the all-sports list. Jim Beatty made the list on the men s side, while Monique Hennagan and Marion Jones were honored on the women s side. Shalane Flanagan Flanagan (below) won four straight ACC cross country titles and led the team to four consecutive NCAA berths, helping establish Carolina as a veritable distance force. In 2002, she became the first UNC cross country national champion in 55 years and the first woman to ever accomplish the feat. Before her arrival, no Tar Heel had ever finished higher than 15th - Flanagan finished in the top four three times. In 2003, she became only the third woman in history to defend her NCAA cross country crown, concluding her cross country career as a four-time All- America. Her success, however, was not limited only to the outdoor trails. She earned 10 All-America honors in just three years of indoor and outdoor track. In 2003, she became a dual national indoor champion, winning the 3,000 meters then teaming up to triumph in the distance medley relay. Flanagan was an All-America at every distance from the 1,500 to the 5,000. After redshirting the indoor and outdoor seasons in 2004, she decided to turn professional just weeks before the U.S. Olympic Trials. In her first race as a professional, Flanagan took third in the 5,000 meters, earning a spot on the Olympic team and a trip to the 2004 Athens Games. Flanagan finished her Carolina career as the most decorated distance athlete in school history. She was named the NCAA Cross Country Athlete of the Year three times, helped set an American record in the distance medley relay and established four individual school records. She capped her stellar career by winning the Patterson Medal, the highest honor bestowed on a student-athlete at UNC. Alice Schmidt Alice Schmidt s career as a standout on both the track and the cross country course culminated in a second-straight Patterson Medal for a female student-athlete from the track and field program. One of the greatest middle distance runners in ACC history, Schmidt became the first Tar Heel woman since Nicole Gamble to win an outdoor national championship, taking the 800 meter crown in Then, in 2003, she did something no Carolina woman had ever done in Tar Heel track and field history - she became a national champion for a second time in the same event, winning the 800 in a school- and ACC-record time of 2: That 800 title actually marked Schmidt s third NCAA title, as she earlier teamed up with Flanagan, Anissa Gainey and Erin Donohue to take the distance medley relay title. Schmidt finished her career as an 11-time All-America. She won six ACC titles, including the indoor 800 three times and the outdoor 800 twice. She was a multiple Penn Relays champion, a member of the Americanrecord-setting distance medley relay team that finished second at the 2002 NCAA Championships, and twice earned All-ACC honors for her cross country performances. Schmidt (right) also thrived in the classroom. She was awarded CoSIDA Academic All-America honors for the school year and was named to the ACC demic Honor Roll four Acatimes. Laura Gerraughty Gerraughty (below) came to UNC from Nashua, N.H., with quite a lofty reputation from her high school days. Suffice it to say she more than lived up to that billing, graduating from Carolina as one of the top Tar Heel performers of all time regardless of sport and indeed leaving a legacy on the ACC unlike anyone before her. The numbers are undeniably staggering. She won four NCAA titles in 2003 (outdoor shot put), 2004 (indoor and outdoor shot put) and 2006 (outdoor shot put). She earned 10 All-America honors and won a remarkable 13 Atlantic Coast Conference individual event championships. A member of the 2004 United States Olympic Team, Gerraughty set UNC records in five events and is the alltime collegiate record-holder in the indoor shot put. Additionally, Gerraughty was named MVP of the 2006 ACC Championships after winning three throws events (discus, shot and hammer). She also was named 2006 Southeast Region Track and Field Athlete of the Year and won the shot at the prestigious Penn Relays for the fourth time, a feat only five women have ever accomplished at that meet. The field of competition was not the only place Gerraughty excelled, though; the biology major was a first-team Academic All- America three times and received the ACC s Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarship. She also became the third straight woman from the track and field program to win UNC s illustrious Patterson Medal, following Shalane Flanagan and Alice Schmidt, respectively. In 40 years of coaching, I ve never had a person, student and athlete combination like Laura, says UNC track and field coach Dennis Craddock. She was an Olympian as a college student, won NCAA titles and set a national record, was a tremendous student and leader, and an even better person and friend. She did everything we ever asked of her and more. Page North Carolina Track and Field Media Guide