ACC Points of Pride

Jun 6, 2025, 2:40 PM

ACCOMPLISHING GREATNESS

The ACC has won 29 NCAA team titles over the last four academic years (2021-25), the most of any conference in its respective league-sponsored sports.

Before this season, the ACC won seven or more national titles in each of the last three years, marking its best run in conference history.
In 2022-23, the ACC won the most NCAA championships of any conference with a league-record nine.
In both 2021-22 and 2023-24, the ACC won seven NCAA championships.

This year, the ACC has won six NCAA team titles, bringing the league's total to 29 since the start of the 2021-22 season.

North Carolina won the 2024 NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship
Virginia won the 2024-25 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship
Notre Dame won the 2025 NCAA Fencing Championship
Wake Forest won the 2025 NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship
North Carolina won the 2025 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
Stanford won the 2025 NCAA Women's Rowing Championship

The ACC has won 27 NCAA individual national titles this season:

Elaine Chervinsky and Melodie Collard (Virginia) – Women’s Tennis Doubles
Jadin O’Brien (Notre Dame) – Pentathlon
Simen Guttormsen (Duke) – Pole Vault
Ethan Strand (North Carolina) – 3,000 meters
Makayla Paige (North Carolina) – 800 meters
Wes Porter, Gary Martin, Conor Murphy, Alex Sherman (Virginia) – DMR
Eszter Muhari (Notre Dame) – Women’s Epee
Magda Skarbonkiewicz (Notre Dame) – Women’s Sabre
Arianna Cao (Stanford) – Women’s Foil
Chase Emmer (Notre Dame) – Men’s Foil
Vince Robinson (NC State) – Wrestling (125 pounds)
Gretchen Walsh, Alex Walsh, Claire Curzan, Maxine Parker (Virginia) - 200 medley relay
Caroline Bricker, Aurora Roghair, Lillie Nordmann, Kayla Wilson (Stanford) - 800 free relay
Torri Huske (Stanford) – 200 IM
Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) - 50 free
Chiara Pellacani (Miami) - 3-meter diving
Gretchen Walsh, Claire Curzan, Maxine Parker, Anna Moesch (Virginia) - 200 free relay
Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) - 100 fly
Caroline Bricker (Stanford) - 400 IM
Alex Walsh (Virginia) - 100 breast
Claire Curzan (Virginia) - 100 back
Claire Curzan, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, Anna Moesch (Virginia) - 400 medley relay
Claire Curzan (Virginia) - 200 back
Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 100 free
Lucy Bell (Stanford) – 200 breast
Claire Curzan, Anna Moesch, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) - 400 free relay
Jack Alexy, Gabriel Jett, Destin Lasco, Lucas Henveaux (California) – Men’s 800 free relay

Greatness is Becoming Greater in Year Two of the “ACCOMPLISH GREATNESS” Creative Campaign

The Atlantic Coast Conference embarked on the second year of its “ACCOMPLISH GREATNESS” creative campaign, unveiled on August 30, 2023. The campaign continues to showcase the ACC's outstanding achievements in both athletics and academics through a series of powerful multi-sport advertisements, highlighting the conference's success across all sports during the academic year. (Release)

This second year of ACCOMPLISH GREATNESS expanded on year one and continues with multiple TV spots - including football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and fall, winter and spring sports - radio spots, social media creative, digital media promotion and school-specific campaign design assets for each member school. (Release)

ACC Spring Sports PSA: HERE

Second ACC Men’s Basketball PSA: HERE

Second ACC Women’s Basketball PSA: HERE

ACC Men’s Basketball PSA: HERE

ACC Women’s Basketball PSA: HERE

ACC Winter Sports PSA: HERE

Postseason ACC Football PSA: HERE

Third ACC Football PSA: HERE

Second ACC Football PSA: HERE

First ACC Football PSA: HERE

ACC Fall Sports PSA: HERE

The ACC currently has 13 teams that either finished the season or are currently ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in the country:

North Carolina Baseball – No. 1 D1Baseball, NCBWA & USA Today Coaches Polls, No. 2 Baseball America Poll
North Carolina Women’s Lacrosse – No. 1 IWLCA & Inside Lacrosse Polls
Stanford Rowing – No. 1 Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll
Stanford Women’s Golf – No. 1 WGCA & Scoreboard powered by Clippd (FINAL)
Wake Forest Men’s Tennis – No. 1 ITA National Rankings (FINAL)
North Carolina Field Hockey – No. 1 Penn Monto/NFHCA DI Coaches Poll (FINAL)
North Carolina Women’s Soccer – No. 1 United Soccer Coaches Poll (FINAL)
Notre Dame Men’s Fencing – No. 1 USFCA Poll (FINAL)
Notre Dame Women’s Fencing - No. 1 USFCA Poll (FINAL)
Virginia Women’s Swimming & Diving – No. 1 CSCAA Coaches Division I Top 25 Poll (FINAL)
Florida State Women’s Golf – No. 2 Mizuno WGCA Coaches (FINAL)
Wake Forest Women’s Soccer – No. 2 United Soccer Coaches Poll (FINAL)
Louisville Volleyball – No. 2 AVCA/TARFLEX Coaches Poll (FINAL)

2024 ACC Fall Champions

The ACC crowned seven fall champions in 2024, with Wake Forest leading the way with two championships. Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Pitt each won one ACC team title over the fall slate.

Men’s Cross Country - Wake Forest
Women’s Cross Country - Notre Dame
Field Hockey – North Carolina
Women’s Soccer – Florida State
Men’s Soccer – Wake Forest
Volleyball - Pitt
Football - Clemson

2024-25 Winter Champions

The ACC awarded eight conference championships this winter season, with both Duke and Virginia Tech winning two ACC titles each.

Men’s Swimming & Diving – California
Women’s Swimming & Diving – Virginia
Men’s Indoor Track & Field – Virginia Tech
Women’s Indoor Track & Field – Clemson
Women’s Basketball – Duke
Wrestling – Virginia Tech
Men’s Basketball – Duke
Gymnastics – Stanford

2025 Spring Champions

The ACC awarded 11 spring conference championships.

Men’s Tennis – Stanford
Women’s Tennis – North Carolina
Women’s Golf – Florida State
Men’s Golf – Virginia
Women’s Lacrosse – North Carolina
Men’s Lacrosse – Syracuse
Softball – Clemson
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field – Duke
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field – Virginia
Rowing – Stanford
Baseball – North Carolina

FALL SPORTS

Football

The Atlantic Coast Conference, in partnership with Bowl Season, has officially announced the full slate of bowl matchups for the 2025 season. Mark your calendars, as the 2025 ACC bowl schedule will feature 11 marquee matchups on ABC and ESPN, and one each on CBS and Fox. (Release)
The ACC, in conjunction with its television partners, has announced the kickoff times and network designations for more than 40 football games scheduled during the first three weeks of the 2025 season. The announcement also includes broadcast details for the league’s Thursday and Friday matchups throughout the season. (Release)
The 2025 ACC Football Championship Game will kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 6, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, on ABC. The league’s football championship game will showcase the top two teams based on regular-season conference winning percentage. (Release)
Television designations for seven marquee ACC football games in Week 1 of the 2025 season were announced Tuesday, May 13, as part of the ESPN and Disney Ad Sales Up Front presentation. This year’s opening slate of full competition delivers five straight days of ACC Football from Thursday, August 28, through Monday, September 1, offering fans an exciting and action-packed start to the college football season. (Release)
The ACC announced that the 2025 ACC Football Kickoff event will once again be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, the home of the ACC, on July 22-24 at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown. The event will feature all 17 football teams, with ACC Network providing coverage throughout all three days, including live interviews with head coaches and student-athletes, press conferences and more. Additional information on credentials, media schedules, student-athletes attending and other logistics will be announced in the future. (Release)
ACC Football is set to dominate Friday nights this fall, with a league-record 12 games scheduled on Fridays. The specific game times and television networks will be announced at a later date. No other conference has more scheduled Friday games than the ACC. (Release)
The ACC announced its 2025 football schedule on January 27 during the two-hour special “ACC Huddle: 2025 Football Schedule Release” show on ACC Network and simulcast on ESPN2. (Release) (Full Schedule)
Five ACC defensive stalwarts were named to the 2025 Lott IMPACT Trophy Watch List: Rueben Bain Jr. (Miami), Kyle Louis (Pitt), T.J. Parker (Clemson), Chandler Rivers (Duke) and Peter Woods (Clemson). (Release)
Nineteen former football standout student-athletes and one head coach from ACC schools were listed on the 2026 NFF College Football Hall of Fame Ballot: Russell Carter (SMU), Matt Cavanaugh (Pitt), Marco Coleman (Georgia Tech), Aaron Donald (Pitt), Ken Dorsey (Miami), Elvis Dumervil (Louisville), Greg Ellis (North Carolina), D’Brickashaw Ferguson (Virginia), Levar Fisher (NC State), Marvin Harrison (Syracuse), Craig Heyward (Pitt), DeSean Jackson (California), Sebastian Janikowski (Florida State), Marshawn Lynch (California), Herman Moore (Virginia), Ron Rivera (California), Jonathan Vilma (Miami), Peter Warrick (Florida State) and Donnell Woolford (Clemson), as well as Larry Coker (Miami).

WINTER SPORTS

Men’s Basketball

Clemson men’s basketball will play BYU on Tuesday, December 9, in Madison Square Garden in New York City in the 2025 Jimmy V Classic.
Wake Forest men's basketball and Michigan will meet for the second straight year for the Wolverine-Deacon Challenge on Tuesday, November 11, at Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit.

Swimming & Diving

Virginia had four swimmers crowned as U.S. Champions at the 2025 Toyota National Championships: Kate Douglass (200 breast), Claire Curzan (200 back), Gretchen Walsh (50 fly) and Jack Aikens (200 back). Walsh broke her own American Record in the 50 fly, posting a 24.66 - just one of two women ever to break the 25-second mark in the event.
California had three swimmers win national championship titles at the 2025 Toyota National Championships to clinch a spot in the 2025 World Championships. Oludare Rose won the 50 fly, Gabriel Jett clinched the 200 free and Keaton Jones placed second in the 200 back.

Wrestling

Pitt wrestler Kade Brown was crowned the Under-20 Canadian National Champion at 70 kilograms this past weekend at the 2025 Canadian World Team Trials. (Release)

SPRING SPORTS

Baseball

The ACC will have a nation-best five teams competing in the Super Regional round. Five teams match the ACC record for most teams in a Super Regional, previously done in 2024 and 2013. (Release)
At least one ACC team is guaranteed to advance to the Men’s College World Series, as Miami will square off with Louisville in the Louisville Super Regional.
At least one ACC team has reached the Men’s College World Series in each of the past 18 years it has been held, with multiple ACC teams advancing 12 times during that span. The ACC has placed a total of 35 teams in the past 18 Men’s College World Series, averaging just under two per season.
The ACC boasts a 47-31 record against Power Four opponents this season, including winning records against the SEC, Big 12 and Big Ten.
No. 3 seed North Carolina (42-12) used an eight-run fifth inning to pull away with the 14-4 win over No. 5 seed Clemson (44-16) to win the 2025 ACC Baseball Championship in front of 9,159 fans on Sunday, May 25, in Durham, North Carolina. (Release)
Four ACC baseball teams are ranked in the D1Baseball Top 25 Poll. North Carolina leads the country at No. 1, followed by No. 7 Florida State, No. 14 Clemson and No. 18 Georgia Tech. (Rankings)
Georgia Tech named James Ramsey as its new head coach on Thursday, June 5. Ramsey, who joined Georgia Tech baseball’s staff in 2019 as an assistant coach and was named associate head coach in 2021, replaces legendary head coach Danny Hall, who stepped away as the ninth-winningest head coach in college baseball history following the conclusion of the 2025 season. (Release)
Florida State’s Alex Lodise was tabbed the 2025 ACC Player of the Year, while North Carolina’s Jake Knapp earned 2025 ACC Pitcher of the Year honors. Lodise was also named the 2025 ACC Defensive Player of the Year, while Georgia Tech’s Danny Hall garnered ACC Coach of the Year honors. In addition, Georgia Tech’s Alex Hernandez was tabbed the 2025 ACC Freshman of the Year. (Release)
Lodise has also been named a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award. He is the first Florida State player since 2008 to be named a Golden Spikes finalist. (Release)
Lodise was also named a finalist for the Brooks Wallace Award, presented annually to the nation’s top shortstop. (Release)
North Carolina’s Jake Knapp was named a finalist for the College Baseball Foundation's National Pitcher of the Year award. (Release)
Clemson’s Lucas Mahlstedt and Georgia Tech’s Mason Patel were named finalists for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award. (Release)
Notre Dame catcher Carson Tinney was named a finalist for the Buster Posey Award. (Release)

Men’s Golf

Virginia finished as the national runner-up at the 2025 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships, falling to Oklahoma State in the match-play final on Wednesday, May 28. It marked the third straight season that an ACC team had advanced to the match-play final. (Release)
In the final Scoreboard team rankings (May 29), four ACC teams were in the top 25 – Virginia (No. 9), Florida State (No. 10), North Carolina (No. 12) and Georgia Tech (No. 23). Duke (No. 26), SMU (No. 27) and Louisville (No. 28) were just outside the top 25. (Rankings)
Five ACC players were in the top 25 of the final Scoreboard individual rankings (May 29), led by North Carolina’s David Ford remaining at No. 1. Ford was followed by Florida State’s Luke Clanton at No. 4, Louisville’s Sebastian Moss at No. 11, Virginia’s Ben James at No. 12 and Notre Dame’s Jacob Modleski at No. 18. (Rankings)
North Carolina’s David Ford was named the winner of the 2025 Haskins Award, becoming the 15th different ACC player to earn the award. (Release)
North Carolina’s David Ford was named the recipient of the 2025 NCAA Division I Jack Nicklaus Award presented by Workday. (Release)
North Carolina's David Ford clinched the No. 1 spot in the 2025 PGA TOUR University standings to earn his PGA TOUR card for the rest of this season and all of 2026. (Release)
Florida State’s Luke Clanton, North Carolina’s David Ford and Virginia’s Ben James were named to the Division I PING All-America First Team. (Release)
Florida State’s Luke Clanton was awarded the 2025 Ben Hogan Award on Monday, May 19. He became the sixth different ACC player to earn the award and the first since FSU alum John Pak won in 2021. (Release)

Women’s Golf

Stanford finished as the runner-up at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship on Wednesday, May 21, from the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. The Cardinal fell, 3-2, to Northwestern after advancing to the national championship match for the third time in the last four seasons.
Florida State’s Mirabel Ting was tabbed the Division I PING WGCA Player of the Year (Release)
Florida State’s Mirabel Ting was also named the winner of the 2025 ANNIKA Award, becoming the fifth different player from a current ACC school to win the award. (Release)
Wake Forest’s Carolina Chacarra was named the Juli Inkster Award presented by Workday, which recognizes the highest-ranked women's collegiate golfer in her final year of NCAA eligibility. (Release)
Stanford’s Meja Örtengren was named the WGCA Freshman of the Year. (Release)
Fourteen ACC standouts were named WGCA Division I All-Americans, headlined by a nation-best seven players on the first team. (Release)
Stanford head coach Anne Walker was named the Golfweek Women’s Coach of the Year. (Release)
Former Duke standout Brittany Lang was tabbed 2026 U.S. Solheim Cup third assistant coach for Team USA. (Release)

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