{"id":6042,"date":"2013-08-28T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T01:21:29","slug":"tar-heels-field-hockey-team-ranked-first-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels field hockey team ranked first in the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6043\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/karenshelton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/karenshelton-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Coach Karen Shelton.\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/karenshelton-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/karenshelton.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Karen Shelton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>North Carolina is ranked No. 1 in the 2013 Penn Monto\/NFHCA Division I preseason poll, released Tuesday by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. The Tar Heels, NCAA runners-up in 2012, received 33 of 50 first place votes, with the others split between No. 2 Maryland (eight) and No. 3 Princeton (nine), the defending national champion.<\/p>\n<p>All seven Atlantic Coast Conference teams are ranked in the poll. Behind UNC at No. 1 and Maryland at No. 2, new member Syracuse is No. 5, Virginia is No. 7, Duke is No. 10, Wake Forest is No. 18 and Boston College is No. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels open the 2013 season on Friday at Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pa. Game time is 2 p.m. at Charlotte E. Smith Field. Check GoHeels.com to follow the game with live stats and video.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 2 of their season-opening road trip, the Tar Heels will take on Villanova Sunday at noon in a neutral-site game played in Newark, Del.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, UNC finished 23-2 and won its second straight ACC Championship. The Tar Heels return 12 letter winners from that team, along with 10 newcomers and three players who redshirted last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is ranked No. 1 in the 2013 Penn Monto\/NFHCA Division I preseason poll, released Tuesday by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. The&#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-6042","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\/6042","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=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}