In a poll of the league’s 14 head coaches, the UNC women’s soccer team was picked as the favorite to repeat as conference regular season champions in the upcoming 2019 campaign.
The Tar Heels received six first place votes (188 total points) to finish just ahead of Florida State–last year’s ACC and NCAA Tournament champions. The Seminoles picked up five first place votes and 185 total points.
Virginia (163 points), Duke (155) and Clemson (121) represent the final three members of the league’s preseason top five.
A total of three Tar Heels were also named to the 11-player Preseason All-ACC team, just one shy of Florida State’s four members.
Representing UNC on that team are: junior defender Emily Fox, junior forward Alessia Russo and sophomore midfielder Brianna Pinto.
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Women’s soccer should be very popular in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Mr. Trendel I hope you’ll talk about them frequently. Women’s soccer is usually the best team in the NCAA!! The last two years they had to play most of their games in Cary because they were working on the UNC soccer stadium. But now they can play on the UNC soccer stadium. The timing of the games are great and you might see them playing successfully in the NCAA tournament. Best wishes and Go Heels!!!