{"id":7400,"date":"2014-08-25T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:19:44","slug":"unc-picked-as-acc-field-hockey-favorite-duke-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7400","title":{"rendered":"UNC picked as ACC field hockey favorite; Duke second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uncfieldhockey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uncfieldhockey.jpg\" alt=\"uncfieldhockey\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7401\" \/><\/a>North Carolina received 31 points and is the preseason favorite to claim the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Field Hockey Championship, according to a vote of the league\u2019s seven head coaches.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels, who reached the national semifinals in 2013, earned two votes for first place and edged out Duke and Syracuse for the top spot. The Blue Devils, who advanced to the national championship game last year, collected three first-place votes and 30 points, while the Orange received one top selection and 29 points.<\/p>\n<p>Boston College and Wake Forest tied for fourth with 16 points, followed by Virginia in sixth and Louisville in seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Duke and North Carolina led all league programs with three players recognized on the preseason squad. Syracuse and Wake Forest had two players selected, and Boston College and Virginia had one player apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the 11 on the preseason squad were named Longstreth\/NFHCA All-Americans in 2013, including Boston College\u2019s Emma Plasteras and North Carolina\u2019s Emily Wold, who were selected to the first team. Seven were named to the 2013 All-ACC Team.<\/p>\n<p>ACC teams have won 17 of the 33 NCAA field hockey titles, including 10 of the last 12, and at least one ACC squad has advanced to the national championship for 15 straight years. All seven current ACC programs finished the 2013 season ranked nationally.<\/p>\n<p>2014 ACC Field Hockey Predicted Order of Finish<\/p>\n<p>Team Points<\/p>\n<p>1. North Carolina (2) 31<br \/>\n2. Duke (3) 30<br \/>\n3. Syracuse (1) 29<br \/>\n4. Boston College (1) 16<br \/>\n5. Wake Forest 16<br \/>\n6. Virginia 14<br \/>\n7. Louisville 11<\/p>\n<p>2014 Preseason All-ACC Field Hockey Team<\/p>\n<p>Emma Plasteras, Sr., M, Boston College<br \/>\nAileen Johnson, Jr., M, Duke<br \/>\nAmanda Kim, Jr., D, Duke<br \/>\nLauren Blazing, R-Jr., GK, Duke<br \/>\nEmily Wold, Jr., M\/B, North Carolina<br \/>\nCharlotte Craddock, Sr., F, North Carolina<br \/>\nEmma Bozek, Jr., M\/F, North Carolina<br \/>\nKati Nearhouse, R-Sr., F, Syracuse<br \/>\nAlyssa Manley, Jr., M, Syracuse<br \/>\nTara Vittese, Fr., M, Virginia<br \/>\nAnna Kozniuk, Sr., B\/M, Wake Forest<br \/>\nGeorgia Holland, R-Sr., M\/B, Wake Forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina received 31 points and is the preseason favorite to claim the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Field Hockey Championship, according to a vote of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","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=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}