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The Lynx Blue Line provides light rail service to the stadium via JW Clay Blvd/UNC Charlotte station. [52] UNC Charlotte’s bus system, Niner Transit, has scheduled stops along both the Silver and Red routes. Roughly 2 hours before kickoff on days of a game, regular operations are reduced and the two football shuttles begin operations.
In 1946, 22 young men began practice as the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina Owl's first athletic program: a football team. [8] The team finished the season 2–4, with wins over Pembroke State and Belmont Abbey, and losses to Davidson JV, Catawba College JV, and Clemson's "B" team. [8]
While UNCC and UNC Charlotte were the officially accepted athletic names, media outlets frequently used unofficial nicknames such as N.C.-Charlotte, N.C.-Char, North Carolina-Charlotte, UNC, UNC-C, UNCC at Charlotte, and others. When the name change was made official, Athletics Director Judy Rose summarized the sentiment that drove the name change:
In fall 2014 Jeff Miller was hired as the first Director of Athletic Bands and, under UNC Charlotte Director of Bands Shawn Smith, began recruiting the inaugural band class. [3] With an additional gift of $2,000,000 from the Johnsons ground was broken on the Vickie and Gene Johnson Marching Band Center. [3]
In 2009, UNC Charlotte received the largest single donation from a private source, when The Leon Levine Family Foundation donated $9.3 million to the university to form the Levine Scholars program. [58] The scholarship program, named for Leon and Sandra Levine, provides a four-year scholarship to UNC Charlotte.
Hundreds of colleges are vying to join this rarified group. In the past two decades, 32 universities have made the leap to Division I. Like Georgia State, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of Texas at San Antonio, among others, have added football — the sport with the most potential to lead to big paydays.
UNCC may refer to: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte , a university in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States A now-obsolete reference to the Charlotte 49ers , the above school's athletic program
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