CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Last May, when it felt like everything was falling apart, UNC's Black student-athletes came together.
In the days following the death of George Floyd, Tar Heel student-athletes and staff members found themselves in need of community in a time when Covid made that uniquely difficult. Cricket Lane, UNC's Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Development, pulled together a group of Black student-athletes for a Zoom discussion.
Courtnie Williamson, a graduate student on the UNC field hockey team, was one the Tar Heels who joined that first call. "It was very therapeutic and much needed," she said.