Last weekend, the North Carolina Tar Heels women’s tennis team beat NC State to claim the first NCAA championship in the program’s history. While the program had won national championships before, they were all in the indoor tennis portion of the season, which are put on by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and are not officially sponsored by the NCAA.
With the win, the tennis team won UNC’s 49th all-time NCAA Tournament. They joined women’s soccer (21), field hockey (10), men’s basketball (6), men’s lacrosse (5), women’s lacrosse (3), men’s soccer (2), and women’s basketball (1), as the eighth Carolina program that’s won a NCAA title.