UNC Track & Field

Complete coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels Track & Field.

Carolina Insider Podcast: Football updates; Top Gun graduate and former UNC track athlete Tim Quinn

Tar Heel Football training camp continues with plenty of storylines on and off the field (12:30), Jones Angell and Adam Lucas discuss. Former UNC track athlete and Top Gun graduate Tim "TQ" Quinn takes us into the world of a fighter pilot (31:28). Plus, it's the first weekend UNC athletic competition since the spring (1:10:10). (Listen To Podcast)

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)

Three Tar Heels Invited To International Track & Field Events

UNC freshman Blaise Atkinson earned spots at the NACAC U23 Championships and Pan American U20 Championships. Tar Heel alumna Jill Shippee will compete for the USA in the hammer throw at the World Athletics Championships in Hungary. And UNC Associate Director of Track & Field Jess Riden will be head women's manager at the Pan-Am U20 games. (GoHeels.com)

Former UNC Track Standout Amber Clark Wins Gold At International Flag Football Championship

On July 7, former UNC long and triple jumper Amber Clark won a gold medal at the IFAF Americas Continental Flag Football Championship in Charlotte. Clark, a Greenville, N.C., native, totaled five interceptions and 18 passes defended across six games, including the interception that sealed the championship game for the U.S. Women's National Team. (GoHeels.com)

Tar Heels Ranked No. 8 In Learfield Director's Cup

UNC is eighth in the next-to-final standings in the 2022-23 Learfield Directors' Cup. One championship, the men's College World Series, remains to be played, and Carolina has amassed 1030.5 points. Stanford, which is one of eight teams in the baseball World Series, has clinched the top spot. The Tar Heels are one of six ACC programs in the top 20, (GoHeels.com)

Four More Tar Heel Track & Field All-Americas On Friday

Four more Tar Heels grabbed All-America honors on Friday on the third day of the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. UNC's Jesse Hunt (1,500m) and Parker Wolfe (5,000m) both earned first-team All-America recognition, while Craig Saddler II (400m hurdles) and Ethan Strand (1,500m) made the second-team in their respective events. (GoHeels.com)

Madison Wiltrout Becomes Four-Time All-America In Javelin

The University of North Carolina's Madison Wiltrout is an All-America in the javelin once again. The Tar Heel standout picked up first-team All-America honors for the third time on Thursday on the second day of the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Including her second-team All-America honors in 2021, Wiltrout is now a four-time All-America. (GoHeels.com)

Three Tar Heels Advance On Day One Of NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Meet

Three UNC athletes advanced to the final round in their respective events on the first day of action Wednesday at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas. Jesse Hunt and Ethan Strand both advanced from the semifinals of the men's 1,500-meter run to Friday's final. (GoHeels.com)

UNC Track & Field Sends Seven To NCAA Outdoor Championships

The Tar Heels will send a combined seven men's and women's track & field competitors to the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, June 7-10: Ethan Strand (1,500m), Jesse Hunt (1,500m), Marshall Williamson (3,000m Steeplechase), Craig Saddler II (400m hurdles), Parker Wolfe (5,000m), James Joycey (hammer throw), Madison Wiltrout (javelin). (GoHeels.com)

Tar Heels Rack Up ACC Track & Field Honors

Eighteen different UNC men's and women's track and field athletes earned All-ACC honors at the the ACC Outdoor Championships, held May 11-13 in Raleigh, N.C. Madison Wiltrout (women's javelin), Ethan Strand (men's 1,500m), and Craig Saddler II (men's 400mH) each won individual ACC titles. Wiltrout won her third ACC title in the women's javelin. (GoHeels.com)

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