UNC head cross country coach Chris Miltenberg announced Monday that the Tar Heels will compete this fall with an abbreviated schedule against other ACC opponents from North Carolina and Virginia.

The season begins on Sept. 25 in Charlottesville, with UNC taking on Wake Forest and Virginia. Another ACC tri-meet against teams still to be decided will await the Tar Heels in Cary on Oct. 7.

On Oct. 16, UNC will face off against NC State and Wake Forest in Kernersville–representing the last tri-meet before seeing the whole conference at the ACC Championships in Cary on Oct. 30.

The preseason poll of the league’s head coaches saw the UNC women picked to finish fifth this season, while the men were tabbed to take ninth place.

The Tar Heels finished eighth at the ACC Championship last season on the women’s side, and took 10th place on the men’s side.

“We are so fired up to have a cross country schedule to announce,” Miltenberg said.  “It will certainly look different than in past years and different from the way any of us envisioned it months ago, but our team is so excited to have the opportunity to compete. This is a return to the old-school, head-to-head to competition among ACC teams with great rivalries, and it’s exactly what our sport needs right now.”

 

 

 

Photo via Tom Connolly (UNC Athletics)

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