{"id":1931078,"date":"2026-09-03T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931078"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:34:05","slug":"being-volleyball-dad-at-unc-matches-dramatically-different-for-malone-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931078","title":{"rendered":"Being \u2018volleyball dad\u2019 at UNC matches dramatically different for Malone this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Michael Malone likes to call himself a \u201cvolleyball dad,\u201d but the dynamics of that have changed dramatically from when he followed Bridget Malone\u2019s freshman season with the Tar Heels. He might get recognized in the crowd because of his profile as an NBA coach who won a league title, but he could keep a low profile while watching his daughter\u2019s matches.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/03\/being-volleyball-dad-at-unc-matches-dramatically-different-for-malone-this-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Being \u2018volleyball dad\u2019 at UNC matches dramatically different for Malone this season<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/03\/being-volleyball-dad-at-unc-matches-dramatically-different-for-malone-this-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Michael Malone likes to call himself a \u201cvolleyball dad,\u201d but the dynamics of that have changed dramatically from when he followed Bridget Malone\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931079,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931078\/revisions\/1931079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}