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Video: Carolina Insider - Interview With UNC Gymnast JoJo Valahovic

North Carolina freshman gymnast JoJo Valahovic joins Jones Angell and Adam Lucas in the Carolina Insider podcast studio to discuss her first season as a college gymnast, recovering from four-hour workouts, inviting Adam to train with her in the weight room and on the balance beam, and more. (View Video)

Carolina Insider Podcast: UNC Football Schedule, Hubert Davis and Gymnast JoJo Valahovic Interviews

The 2025 Tar Heel Football schedule is out. We look at UNC's slate in Bill Belichick's first year (3:02). Carolina outscored BC to avoid a crushing loss and now enters its most difficult stretch of ACC play (25:21). Next, JoJo Valahovic from UNC gymnastics joins (50:29), followed by a check-in from Hubert Davis (1:07:52). (Listen To Podcast)

UNC gymnastics defies expectations in first two meets of 2025 season

In her fourth year at the helm of the UNC gymnastics program, head coach Danna Durante has helped lead the Tar Heels back to gymnastics relevancy. She coached them to a 195.225 in their away opener against now-No. 3 Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Despite the loss, UNC set the highest season-opening road score in program history. (Daily Tar Heel)

UNC’s ACC Network Takeover to air on Friday

While the action will begin right at midnight, Carolina’s biggest success of the year will air at 4:30 PM ET with the field hockey National Championship Game. After a legendary playing career at the school, Erin Matson took over as head coach before last year and immediately kept things rolling with a national title in her first season. (Tar Heel Blog)

RJ Davis, Aranza Vazquez take top honors at Rammys

UNC honored the best athletes and performances of the last year at the annual Rammys on Monday night. The top male and female athletes were no surprise, as All-American guard R.J. Davis and four-time NCAA champion diver Aranza Vazquez took home top honors. Drake Maye’s left-handed touchdown pass at Pittsburgh was named Play of the Year. (Tar Heel Tribune)

UNC Student-Athletes Set Graduation Success Rates Record

For the fourth straight year UNC student-athletes set a school-record for multi-year graduation rates and set the mark for highest single-year rate as reported in the NCAA's annual Graduation Success Rates. Tar Heels student-athlete GSRs for the incoming classes of 2013-14 through 2016-17 were a record 92%. The single-year rate was also a record 94%. (GoHeels.com)

Video: UNC Historian Freddie Kiger Spins Tar Heel Tales At Sutton's

Longtime University of North Carolina historian Freddie Kiger talks about the rich history of UNC and Olympic Sports at Carolina for an audience at Sutton's Drug Store in Chapel Hill. (View Video)

Ten Tar Heel Things To Watch In 2023-24

UNC's first day of classes is around the corner, and training camps and exhibition games have begun. The regular season arrives this week when the women's soccer team visits Penn State on Thursday. There's plenty of reason to be excited about UNC Athletics. Here are 10 things for Tar Heel fans to look forward to entering the 2023-24 academic year. (GoHeels.com)

Former All-American Sami Durante Joins UNC Gymnastics Staff

Former Louisiana State University standout Sami Durante has joined the University of North Carolina gymnastics staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2023-24 season. Durante earned WCGA Regular Season All-America recognition on bars in both 2021 and 2022. She was part of an NCAA Championship squad each year during her time in Baton Rouge. (GoHeels.com)

Born & Bred: A Grandfather's Foresight

Former UNC gymnast Elizabeth Culton wanted to be a Tar Heel. Both her brothers attended Carolina. Her parents, Julian and Cathy, attended Carolina. It was a deep legacy but not an unusual one; once a family develops some Carolina blue traits, it tends to take over the family. But Culton’s family tree was different, and had a deeper Tar Heel tie. (Rams Club)

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