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North Carolina fields a Division I tennis program in the ACC. The Tar Heels bring 14 tennis players into the ACC this season. The Tar Heels are building toward the tournament schedule this season with Chris Xu pacing the roster (1-4 singles record). The Tar Heels list 14 athletes for the 2026 season. The class distribution includes 1 freshman, 3 sophomores, 4 juniors, and 3 seniors, with 3 athletes listed without a class year. The Tar Heels host home events on the North Carolina campus. The Tar Heels' tournament schedule will be updated as results are posted. Rameses anchors North Carolina tennis's identity, with "I'm a Tar Heel Born" as the program's fight song. When fans fuel a Tar Heel athlete on RallyFuel, 90% lands directly with the athlete — funding training, recovery, and the realities of college sports.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels are based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and field 28 varsity teams.
UNC has won 52 NCAA team championships in eight sports. Women's soccer leads with 22, most recently in 2024, and field hockey has 11, the latest in 2022 and 2023. Men's basketball won in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017, and men's lacrosse in 1981, 1982, 1986, 1991 and 2016. Women's lacrosse won in 2013, 2016, 2022 and 2025. Men's soccer won in 2001 and 2011, women's basketball in 1994 and women's tennis in 2023. In 2026, women's lacrosse lost the national final to Northwestern, 14-11, and baseball finished as College World Series runner-up to Oklahoma.
According to the university, 111 Tar Heel varsity athletes have competed at the Olympics and have won 34 gold medals. Mia Hamm won soccer gold in 1996 and 2004, Michael Jordan won basketball gold in 1984 and 1992, Allen Johnson won the 110-meter hurdles in 1996, and Shalane Flanagan took silver in the 10,000 meters in 2008. At Paris 2024, Crystal Dunn and Emily Fox won gold with the U.S. women's soccer team and Naya Tapper won bronze in rugby sevens. Other Tar Heels in Paris included Rinky Hijikata (tennis, Australia), Katie Bowen (soccer, New Zealand) and Aranza Vazquez Montaño (diving, Mexico).
Football plays at Kenan Stadium and men's basketball at the Dean E. Smith Center. Carmichael Arena hosts women's basketball, volleyball and wrestling. Baseball plays at Boshamer Stadium, soccer and lacrosse at Dorrance Field, and field hockey at Karen Shelton Stadium.
The Tar Heels' chief rival is Duke, and the Tobacco Road rivalries also include NC State and Wake Forest. The football series with Virginia is known as the South's Oldest Rivalry. Carolina blue is the school color, and the mascot is Rameses, a ram who appears both live and in costume. The fight song is "I'm a Tar Heel Born."