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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Women's Field Hockey
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Women's Field Hockey

NCAA Division 1 Chapel Hill, NC Public

Academic Snapshot

Acceptance Rate

19%

Avg SAT

1,454

Avg ACT

25

Enrollment

20,556

Team Information

Sport

Field Hockey

Gender

Women's

Division

NCAA Division 1

Location

Chapel Hill, NC

Now Evaluating

Class of 2026 Class of 2027 Class of 2028 Class of 2029

Coaching Staff (3)

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Karen Shelton

Head Coach

Shelton took over as the Tar Heels' head coach in 1981 and since then has led UNC to national prominence in the form of six NCAA Championships, 10 NCAA runner-up finishes and 33 winning seasons. Heading into her 36th campaign in 2016, Shelton carries a career record of 608-153-9 and ranks second in NCAA history in career wins. Eight times in the past nine seasons, Shelton has led Carolina to the NCAA final four, claiming titles in 2007 and 2009, finishing as runner-up in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015, and reaching the semifinals in 2013 and 2014. She has led UNC to 19 Atlantic Coast Conference championships, most recently in 2015. Shelton's 600th career win came on Oct. 18, 2015, with a 5-1 victory over VCU in Richmond, Va. In 2009, Shelton led the Tar Heels to the program's sixth national championship. She was named National Coach of the Year for the fifth time in her career and the second time in a three-year span. Shelton has been honored nine times as Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, most recently in 2012, and has led the Tar Heels to a league-best 18 ACC titles. In January of 2008, Shelton was inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame for her achievements as a coach. She was inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989 for her performance as a player. Born Nov. 14, 1957, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Shelton spent the first 10 years of her life on Army bases across the country. She was in fifth grade when her father retired and the family - Shelton has four brothers and two sisters - moved to Pennsylvania, the cradle of field hockey. At West Chester State, Shelton played on three national championship field hockey teams and one national championship lacrosse team. Three times she was named field hockey's national player of the year, a streak that has never been equaled. Shelton earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education in 1979, then spent one year as assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall College before coming to UNC. She was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1977-84 and started for the squad that won a bronze medal at the Los Angeles Summer Games in 1984. Shelton was U.S. Field Hockey's Athlete of the Year in 1983. In 1999, she was named the Delaware County Field Hockey Athlete of the Millennium by the Delaware County Daily Times. Throughout her career, Shelton has groomed her players for success after UNC. Carolina student-athletes are high achievers on the field and in the classroom, adding academic honors to All-America accolades. Tar Heels alums are successful in fields such as medicine, coaching, teaching, dentistry, business and finance. Many of Shelton's players have gone on to represent the U.S. in international play. Five of the 16 players on the U.S. roster at the 2016 Summer Games were from UNC. Every U.S. National Team since 1989 has included at least one Tar Heel. A very visible ambassador for North Carolina and its athletic programs, Shelton was inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece, a campus honor society, in March of 2002. In 2011, she received UNC's C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her longtime service and dedication to the University. Shelton is married to Willie Scroggs, who recently retired as a senior associate athletic director at UNC.  He coached the Carolina men's lacrosse team from 1979-90, a span that included three NCAA titles. Their son, William, is a 2013 Carolina graduate who played lacrosse for the Tar Heels.

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Grant Fulton

Associate Head Coach

Fulton has served as a high performance assistant coach for the USFHA Young Womens National Championship. A graduate of the University of Pretoria, he represented his home country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and appeared in a total of 60 international matches with South Africa's National Team. He was awarded a U.S. Field Hockey Level III Coaching certificate in 2007. Fulton's wife, , is Staff Athletic Trainer for Club Sports at UNC. They have a son, Oliver, and a daughter, Everly.

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Laree Beans

Assistant Coach

Beans most recently served as an assistant coach at Emmaus (Pa.) High School, her alma mater. She has coached at the Carolina field hockey summer camps since she was an undergraduate and currently holds a Level 2 Coaching Certificate with the U.S. Field Hockey Association. In addition to other coaching experience, she has served as head coach for Under-19 and Under-14 teams at the Keystone Games in Pennsylvania as well as for two club teams, Texas Pride (Houston) and Firestyx (Emmaus, Pa.) Beans earned a teaching certificate in English from Moravian College in 2010.

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