{"id":557223,"date":"2017-12-19T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=557223"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:18:28","slug":"2017-volleyball-season-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=557223","title":{"rendered":"2017 Volleyball Season in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2017\/12\/19\/2017-volleyball-season-in-review.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Expectations were high for the Tar Heels in 2017. Carolina returned more than half of its starting lineup from a successful 2016 season in which UNC captured its 13th ACC title and reached NCAA Regionals for the second time in three years. UNC entered the year ranked No. 11 in the AVCA Preseason Poll. The Tar Heels retained 2016 ACC Player of the Year Taylor Leath and 2016 ACC Freshman of the Year Julia Scoles. All three middles who helped Carolina rank fourth in the nation in blocks were still in Chapel Hill. Redshirt freshman setter\/hitter Holly Carlton spent the summer with the U.S. Women&#8217;s Junior National Team. The sky was the limit for Carolina. But a wave of injuries knocked the Tar Heels off course. <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2017\/12\/19\/2017-volleyball-season-in-review.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2017\/12\/19\/2017-volleyball-season-in-review.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"2017 Volleyball Season in Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goheels.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations were high for the Tar Heels in 2017. Carolina returned more than half of its starting lineup from a successful 2016 season in which UNC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557223","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923562,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557223\/revisions\/1923562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}