North Carolina Wins Ninth Straight ACC Field Hockey Championship

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (theACC.com) – For the ninth straight 12 months, the North Carolina Tar Heels lifted the ACC Field Hockey Championship trophy, defeating Virginia, 4-1, on Friday, November 7, at Trager Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the twenty eighth ACC Championship in UNC program historical past.
 
Dani Mendez, the Most Valuable Player of the 2025 ACC Field Hockey Championship, remained red-hot, logging a pair of objectives towards her former group. The Tar Heels’ ahead scored the primary two objectives of the sport, opening the scoring simply 3:19 into the competition, beating the Virginia goalkeeper and scoring into the top-right nook of the cage off an help from Charly Bruder. Mendez would as soon as once more join on a North Carolina penalty nook within the second quarter, getting an help from Isabel Boere.
 
Using a penalty nook, Bruder pushed the Tar Heels’ result in 3-0 within the second quarter after burying a shot into the left aspect of the cage. Coco Courtright and Ryleigh Heck logged assists on Bruder’s seventeenth objective of the season.
 
The Cavaliers would reply lower than 90 seconds later, getting on the scoreboard from a Mia Abello penalty stroke. Abello, who scored the game-winning objective in Virginia’s semifinal shootout victory, logged her eighth objective of the season.
 
In the opening minute of the second half, Reese Anetsberger used an help from Mendez to push the Tar Heels’ result in 4-1, the place it might stay for the rest of the competition. North Carolina didn’t permit a shot on objective within the second half as Katie Wimmer posted a spotless half-hour in objective after coming into at halftime.
 
The Tar Heels and Cavaliers will wait to listen to their names referred to as through the NCAA Field Hockey Selection Show on Sunday, November 9, at 10 p.m. ET on NCAA.com.
 
2025 ACC Field Hockey Championship All-Tournament Team
Julia Boehringer, M, Duke
Alaina McVeigh, F, Duke
Reese Anetsberger, F, North Carolina
Charly Bruder, F, North Carolina
Ryleigh Heck, F, North Carolina
Dani Mendez, F/M, North Carolina (MVP)
Bo van Kempen, B, Syracuse
Jessie Eiselin, GK, Syracuse
Lauren Kenah, M, Virginia
Madison Orsi, B, Virginia
Emma Watchilla, F, Virginia
 
2025 ACC Field Hockey Championship
Quarterfinals | Tuesday, November 4
#1 North Carolina 2, #8 Louisville 1
#4 Duke 7, #5 California 1
#2 Virginia 4, #7 Stanford 3
 
Quarterfinals | Wednesday, November 5
#6 Syracuse 3, #3 Wake Forest 1
 
Semifinals | Thursday, November 6
#1 North Carolina 5, #4 Duke 2
#2 Virginia 3 #6 Syracuse 2 (Virginia advances 4-1 in a shootout)
 
Championship | Friday, November 7
#1 North Carolina 4, #2 Virginia 1