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The Charlotte 49ers is the name for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This consists of sixteen teams (eight for each gender) that compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference of the NCAA's Division I. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte, or for athletics purposes, Charlotte), is a public, coeducational, research intensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. ... The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. ...

The school's official colors are green and white, though black also features prominently in the school's athletic logos and uniforms and gold prominent in all logos. The nickname 49ers derives from the fact that the Charlotte Center for the University of North Carolina, a night school created to educate returning World War II veterans, was saved from closing in 1949 by Bonnie Cone. The school was rechristened Charlotte College that year and became UNC Charlotte in 1965. The athletics logo contains a miner's hand and pick-axe as a reference to the Gold Rush in the piedmont region of North Carolina that was the largest in the nation until the California Gold rush. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...

The best national finish by a 49ers athletic team is 3rd, accomplished by the men's golf team at the 2007 NCAA Golf Championship. In September of 2007, the golf team became the first Charlotte athletic program to reach a #1 national ranking. Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Overview of teams

Loren Hibbs (born May 17, 1961) is an American baseball player and coach. ... Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium is a baseball venue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... Bobby Lutz (born April 4, 1958 near Hickory, North Carolina) is an American college basketball coach. ... Barnhardt Student Activity Center Dale F. Halton Arena Dale F. Halton Arena (commonly shortened to Halton Arena) is an indoor sports venue located on the campus of UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... Karen Sue Aston (born July 26, 1964 in Benton, Arkansas) is an American basketball player and coach. ... Barnhardt Student Activity Center Dale F. Halton Arena Dale F. Halton Arena (commonly shortened to Halton Arena) is an indoor sports venue located on the campus of UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... The Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field is a stadium located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ... The Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field is a stadium located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ... The Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field is a stadium located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ... Barnhardt Student Activity Center Dale F. Halton Arena Dale F. Halton Arena (commonly shortened to Halton Arena) is an indoor sports venue located on the campus of UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

Overview of conferences

NAIA

• Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1965-1970)

NCAA Division I

• Independent (1970-1976)
• Sun Belt Conference (1976-1991)
• Metro Conference (1991-1995)
• Conference USA (1995-2005)
• Atlantic 10 Conference (2005-present)

The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAAs Division I since 1976. ... The Metro Conference was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were situated in urban metropolitan areas in the Southern United States. ... Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. ... The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. ...

Athletics Name

Even though the university's official name is The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the athletic department opted in 2000 to shorten the university's name to Charlotte for athletics purposes. This decision was prompted by the constant misrepresentations of the school's name in the media at the local and national level.

Facilities

Athletic facilities at Charlotte have improved dramatically over the past decade. In 1996 men's basketball returned to campus full-time for the first time in nearly 20 years with the opening of Dale F. Halton Arena. A new outdoor sports facility, the Irwin Belk Track and Field Center, opened in 1999 and serves as the home to the 49ers track and field teams in addition to both men's and women's soccer. Tom & Lib Phillips Field, the baseball facility, underwent a $6 million overhaul that was completed in 2007; the facility was renamed Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium in honor of the renovation's benefactor and her late husband. The golf team's new practice facility at Rocky River Golf Club in Concord was completed in October 2006. Barnhardt Student Activity Center Dale F. Halton Arena Dale F. Halton Arena (commonly shortened to Halton Arena) is an indoor sports venue located on the campus of UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium is a baseball venue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

Football at Charlotte

UNC Charlotte does not have a football team. When the University was still the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina, there was a football team, but it was disbanded after a short time. Founder Bonnie Cone is sometimes credited with the initial ban on a football program that has persisted throughout the University's history, but this is inaccurate. There have been several myths that have been spread as to why the University doesn't have a team and many still persist to this day, but the reality is that CCUNC students voted to disband the football program.

The April 1, 2004 issue of the campus newspaper, The University Times, parodied this controversy by claiming on the front page that alumnus Clay Aiken was in the process of donating millions to the university for the creation of a football team. Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who rose to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. ...

In 2006, a student and alumni organization formed in an effort to bring an NCAA Division I-A football team to UNC Charlotte. So far the organization, Charlotte 49er Football Initiative, has set up a website in order to get a list of supporters and pledges supporters would like to make, if there were a team. They have also begun selling t-shirts and stickers to further bolster support. An on campus student version has been created and the organization as a whole has begun receiving attention, including that of the media.[8]

Near the end of 2006, a poll was undertaken to see if the topic of football should go to an official student vote. There were over 4,000 votes cast, 97% of them being for the 'yes' option.[1][2]

On February 26, 2007, the Student Government Association released the results of a 2-week official student opinion poll in which nearly 40% of all students (over 8,000) voted, making this the highest turnout achieved in the state system's history. The results were:[3]

• 22% of students participating voted in support of no fee increase
• 78% of students participating voted in support of a fee increase
• 52% of students participating voted in support of paying at least $200 per year
• 59% of students participating would attend 5 to 6 home games
• 72% of students participating would travel more than 5 miles to attend home games
• 56% of students participating would travel more than 10 miles to attend home games
• 59% of students participating would be more interested in 49er Athletics as a result of football
• 12% of students participating would not consider attending football games after graduation
• 62% of students pariticpating had attended at least one college football game at another school the previous season

In February of 2007, the Board of Trustees voted to establish a Football Feasibility Committee to be headed by outgoing Board President Mac Everett. The Committee held several meetings throughout the summer of 2007 and conducted three public forums in the fall of 2007. Following these meetings, the committee unanimously voted in favor of making a pro-football recommendation to the Board of Trustees regarding the feasibility of adding a football program at Charlotte.

Chancellor Dubois is in the process of reviewing the committee's results and determining his final recommendation to the Board of Trustees at the September board meeting. He has presented the findings of his own internal review to the board at the June meeting which included estimates from stadium design firm HOK Sport Venue Event which significantly bumped facilities construction numbers from the feasiblity committee figures and which are significantly higher then those for the much larger facility recently constructed for the University of Central Florida's Bright House Stadium. These figures high costs in relation to UCF's new stadium and a similarly priced new construction for the University of North Texas have raised doubts about the Chancellor's desire to pursue football. UCF redirects here. ... UNT redirects here. ...

The Board will vote at the September meeting for or against adding football. The team would likely begin play in the Fall of 2013.

Accomplishments

Soccer

• NCAA Final Four 1996 - Led by Striker Jonathan Mabee
• Atlantic 10 Finalist 2007

Baseball

Hayes Stadium has been the home of the 49ers' baseball team since 1984. A major renovation finished in 2008.

• First season: 1979
• Conference Championships (5)
  • 1993, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2008
• NCAA Tournament Appearances (4)
  • 1993 (0-2)
  • 1998 (0-2)
  • 2007 (2-2)
  • 2008 (0-2)
• Retired Jerseys
  • 5 Joey Anderson
  • 7 Barry Shiflett
  • 15 Tim Collie

Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 798 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2832 × 2128 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 798 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2832 × 2128 pixel, file size: 1. ... The 2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament will be held from June 1st through June 26th, 2007. ...

Golf

• Consensus #1 in the nation by three major polls: Golfweek, Golfstat, and Nike - Fall 2007 (First National Number 1 Ranking in any varsity sport for Charlotte)

• Atlantic 10 Champions
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008

• NCAA Championship 3rd Place - 2007
• NCAA Championship 8th Place - 2008

• Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year 2007 - Jamie Green

Men's Basketball

Halton Arena has been the on-campus facility for basketball and volleyball since 1996.

• First season: 1965
• Conference Championships (9)
  • 1969, 1970, 1977, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004
• NCAA Tournament Appearances (11)
  • 1977 (Final Four - 4th Place)
  • 1988 (1st Round)
  • 1992 (1st Round)
  • 1995 (1st Round)
  • 1997 (2nd Round)
  • 1998 (2nd Round)
  • 1999 (2nd Round)
  • 2001 (2nd Round)
  • 2002 (1st Round)
  • 2004 (1st Round)
  • 2005 (1st Round)
• NIT Appearances (6)
  • 1976 (Finals), 1989, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2008
• Retired Jerseys
  • 4 Byron Dinkins
  • 4 DeMarco Johnson
  • 23 Jarvis Lang
  • 32 Melvin Watkins
  • 33 Cedric Maxwell
  • 34 Henry Williams
  • 45 Charles Hayward

The 1977 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the National Champion of Mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 1988 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 1992 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 1995 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 1997 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 1998 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 1999 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 2001 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 2002 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... The 2004 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... 2005 Final Four, Edward Jones Dome The 2005 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... Byron Dinkins (born June 15, 1967 in Charlotte, North Carolina), is an American former professional basketball player who played two seasons in the NBA from 1989 to 1991. ... DeMarco Antonio Johnson (born October 6, 1975, in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.) is an American professional basketball player. ... Melvin Watkins Melvin Watkins (born November 15, 1954) is an American college basketball player and coach, and since 2004 has been the associate head coach at the University of Missouri. ... Cedric Maxwell Cedric Bryan Maxwell (born November 21, 1955, in Kinston, North Carolina) is a retired American professional basketball player now in radio broadcasting. ... Henry L. Williams (born June 6, 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American former basketball player. ...

Women's Basketball

• First season: 1975
• Conference Championships (3)
  • 1990, 2003, 2006
• NCAA Appearances (1)
  • 2003 (1st Round)
• NIT Appearances (6)
  • 1990, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

The 2003 NCAA Womens Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 22, 2003 and concluded on April 8, 2003 when Connecticut won their second straight title. ...

External links

• Charlotte49ers.com
• UNC Charlotte official homepage

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