With Chloe Humphrey leading the way, North Carolina is aiming for a NCAA women’s lacrosse national title

Charlotte, NC – Surrounded by her teammates in celebration, Chloe Humphrey has just stained. He did not need to score the final goal of the game with 4.1 seconds, but anyway, padding the tar leadership a bit while exceeding any flickering of Hope Boston College could have had the movement of his stick.

North Carolina sowed number 1 in the Tournament of Female ACC, led by a goal about the Eagles with 50 seconds to play in the game for the title at the American Legion Memorial Stadium. The possession belonged to the Tar Heels after winning a draw after a deceased goal in the Boston College, and the goal in the waning moments of the game was simply draining the clock and ensuring victory.

But Humphrey saw an opportunity. Darien’s 5 -inch attack 4 inches, Connecticut, ran towards the mouth of Boston College’s goal and pretended his shot several times. Then he left the fold and ran around the back of the network. She forced a defender to persecute and then threw another when the beautiful seconds left the clock. She folded the corner to go to the finish line again and moved away the goalkeeper of the Eagles of the Cage. With her now, three Boston College players who accompany her, Humphrey turned her stick on her body and shot a shot with the back of the network.

As the BC goalkeeper finished, Humphrey threw his stick on the hot grass while his teammates pushed his arms in the air and shouted.

Now, the victory was sure. Humphrey had closed forever in Boston College.

“I simply put the little cherry on top,” said Humphrey, a first -year student of a red shirt. “I don’t know if I should have done that, but it was so exciting that I was thinking.”

Not taking into account any concern to upload the score and simply trust their instincts turned out to be the correct movement. With less than five seconds to play, there was no way that the Eagles could two scores in such a limited amount of time. And so, for the first time since 2022 and for the eighth time in general, North Carolina won the Tournament of Lacrosse Female Actom, defeating the reigning national champions for the second time this season 14-12 on a sunny Sunday in Charlotte.

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Humphrey finished the game with three goals and two assists, and was appointed MVP of the ACC Tournament for his efforts. Their game skills helped the Tar Heels to erase a two -goal deficit at the beginning of the fourth period.

“This team has a heart and you will see it from an end to.” It simply reduces to our love for each other and our love for the team. And there is never doubt that we can achieve the objectives we want. “

For the Tar Heels, the last undefeated team remover throughout the Female Lacrosse of Division I, the next goal on the horizon is to win a national championship. The support for the Tournament of Team 29 will be presented on May 4 and is expected that UNC is the general seed number 1.

In the direction of the selection and the tournament, the Tar Heels seem to be the favorite too much to win everything. After capturing the title of ACC, North Carolina players have confidence and throw themselves into the next chapter of the postseason.

“It is not just what you see in these games, it is what we see in practice, and that is what makes me sure to say that we are the team no. 1, because everyone comes to practice 100 percent and these games are children or simply show the hard work we put in” “” we definitely have the eyes in the biggest prize. “

The numbers tell the story of how good is North Carolina this season. Not only are 18-0 with 11 victories on classified opponents, but the Tar Heels are third at the national level in the score offensive with 17.5 goals per game and first in defense by allowing only 6.67 goals per game.

UNC is also the second national in game assists (9.06), second as a compensation percentage (.950), 18º in raffle control percentage (.575), thirty as a percentage of savings (.518), first in scoring margin (10.83), second in six -in -sex gunfire to the game per game (11.33).

In a nutshell, Tar Heels have no weakness anywhere in the field or on their list. In each facet of the Lacrosse game, Jenny Levy’s team is excellent.

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“We are really the best defense in the country. We always work together. We continually support each other and give ourselves confidence,” says Junior Defensor Ellie Traggio. “Our team this year is so deep that our attackers that could not be starting are as good as the initial attackers of the other team. We play against them every day.”

Traggio is part of a defensive unit for the heels that Hero Boston College now, the nation’s offensive, to its two lowest scoring totals of the season. The pair of defeats against UNC also mark the only losses of BC in the year.

The improvements at defensive and offensive extremes have helped the Tar Heels to design a notable change of one year. According to the standards of UNC and Levy, the only chief coach that the program has had the 10-7 brand of the season was an incredible disappointment. After enduring injuries and losses, UNC fell into its opening games in the ACC and NCAA tournaments, running out of what would have been the 14th Final Four programs.

“We had a difficult year last year, and it’s great to be back in this game, playing a great opponent like BC and it’s great to go out with a victory,” Levy said. “I think for us, our approach every day is to try to improve the things we are watching in the movie and the things we can sharpen … We are going to play one game at the same time and see what happens.”

From last season until this, a great different convenient and a great impulse has the bone of the presence of Hopphrey. She was one of the three key players, the others were the American defender Brooklyn Walker-Welch and the attacker All-Acce Marissa White-to Fall of the entire 2024 season due to the tears of LCA. Another talent for the entire accent, the medium gardener Kaleigh Harden, was also discarded for last season.

Humphrey’s debut had been highly anticipated because he had a leg of his legs as not. 1 Recruit in its class and the best high school player in the country by USA Lacrosse and use today, while also getting a place in the U20 national team. She also comes from a Lacrosse family. His mother played in Dartmouth, his sister Nicole won a national title on UNC in 2022, and her sister Ashley won consecutive PAC-12 titles in Stanford before joining her in the chapel as a transfer. Ashley-Who established the record record of a NCAA season at Stanford-Hahas 70 Dimes in the season for UNC.

When Chloe Humphrey finally put Carolina’s blue this season, she did not disappoint. She occupies the third place at the national level in goals scored with 73. She and her sister Ashley are tied in sixth place in the nation at total points with 97 each.

Levy believes that Humphrey has a season of watching the university game closely from the beard has helped her become a star player this season.

“In high school, the defense is very interesting … it is different at this level,” says Levy. “Not being able to play last year really helped her see how the game looks at the university level.”

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What is certain is that Humphrey is seeing the bottom of the incredible network, whether it is shooting in the fold or long range, or if the cage is in front of it or behind it. With a creator of the game like this, with a defense that is the best of the nation, with great depth and experience, and with a coach of the Hall of Fame on the margin, the sky seems to be the limit for tar cures.

The Final Four this season is in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and there is a good possibility that UNC will meet Boston College at that stage for the third time this season. If that confrontation happens again, only in what would be the enemy territory, tar cures are convinced that the result will be the same.

“We have definitely thought about the possibility of playing them again. I think we have just learned that they are such a good team, but we continue to remember that we play against the best attackers in the country every day. And so, we can do it, motivating mutually, continuing to be dogs throughout the field,” says Traggio. “We know we can do it twice, so we can do it for the third time.”