The North Carolina Tar Heels women's tennis team, commonly referred to as Carolina, represents the

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. North Carolina currently competes as a member of the

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(ACC) and plays its home matches at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.

History

The team's history in the

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includes one runner-up finish in 2014 and three appearances in the quarterfinals (2013, 2015, 2017). The Tar Heels have won the ITA National Team Indoor Championship three times (2013, 2015, 2018). Additionally, the program boasts ten ACC tournament championships. The team is currently led by Brian Kalbas, UNC’s all-time wins leader. Kalbas compiled an .805 career winning percentage over his first 15 seasons at North Carolina, the highest in ACC history.

Notable former players

Jamie Loeb Jamie Loeb (born March 8, 1995) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 132 in singles, achieved in February 2018, and 120 in doubles, achieved in July 2018. Loeb has won nine singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF ...

Hayley Carter Hayley Carter (born May 17, 1995) is an inactive American tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, WTA doubles ranking of No. 25, which she achieved on 14 June 2021. Carter is primarily a doubles player. She has won two WTA Tour and tw ...

Honors

Individual NCAA Champions

(2015)

Doubles NCAA Champions

Jenna Long Jenna Long (born November 26, 1985) is an American former professional tennis player. She is now an attorney. Long grew up in Fremont, California and studied at the University of North Carolina. In her senior year of collegiate tennis, she partne ...

Sara Anundsen Sara Lynn Anundsen (born June 21, 1985) is an American former professional tennis player. Born in Denver, Anundsen attended Columbine High School and was a three-time Colorado state schools champion from 2001 to 2003, going undefeated (50–0). ...

(2007) *

Makenna Jones Makenna Jones (born February 26, 1998) is an American tennis player. She has career high WTA singles ranking of No. 236 achieved on 23 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 107 achieved on 3 July 2023. Jones played college tennis at the Unive ...

Elizabeth Scotty Elizabeth Scotty (born July 12, 2001) is an American tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis rac ...

(2021)

All-Americans

*Cinda Gurney (1992, 1993) *Alisha Portnoy (1993) *Marlene Mejia (2001) *Kate Pinchbeck (2002, 2003) *Kendall Cline (2003, 2005) *Aniela Mojzis (2003, 2004, 2005) *

(2006, 2007) *

(2006, 2007) *Sanaz Marand (2008, 2009) *Sophie Grabinski (2009) *Zoe De Bruycker (2011) *Shinann Featherston (2011, 2012) *Lauren McHale (2011, 2012) *Caroline Price (2013, 2014) *Gina Suarez-Malaguti (2013) *

(2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) *

(2014, 2015) *Whitney Kay (2014, 2016) *Sara Daavettila (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) *

Jessie Aney Jessie Aney (born 19 April 1998) is an American tennis player. Aney has career-high WTA rankings of 343 in singles and 112 in doubles. In her career, she has won two singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Aney won her biggest ...

(2017, 2018) *

(2018, 2019, 2021) *Alexa Graham (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) *Alle Sanford (2018) *

Cameron Morra Cameron Morra (born September 20, 1999) is an American tennis player. Morra has reached a career-high WTA ranking of 1008 in singles and 868 in doubles. She made her main draw debut at the 2019 Citi Open partnering with Alana Smith in doubles. ...

(2019, 2020, 2021) *

(2021)

ITA National Coach of the Year

*2010: Brian Kalbas ''Information about honors and former players cited from th
2019 team yearbook
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References

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