RALEIGH
Flying 2,500 miles instead of playing 25 minutes from campus is a fitting end to an unusual North Carolina’s women’s soccer season, but an equally unfortunate – and entirely avoidable – one.
The Tar Heels are back in the College Cup for the first time since 2012, an abnormal drought for the sport’s most powerful program, but instead of playing in a semifinal Friday night at Cary’s WakeMed Soccer Park, they’re in San Jose, Calif., thanks to HB2.
The women’s soccer championship was one of seven NCAA championships moved from North Carolina in September because of House Bill 2, the so-called “bathroom bill” that allows state-sanctioned discrimination against the LGBT community and has provoked nationwide outrage.