The NCAA has announced that Charlotte and host Charlotte 49ers will be the site for the second and third rounds of the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. The games are slated for Friday and Sunday, March 20-22, 2015, at Time Warner Cable Arena.
The Charlotte 49res will hold a Fall Football Finale on Saturday, Nov. 17, as the football team conducts its final practice of its first fall workout season.
The “Fall Stroll for Epilepsy” will be Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Belk Track and Field Complex. The UNC Charlotte 49ers have sponsored this event for several years to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of North Carolina.
The Charlotte 49ers will hold their annual Basketball Madness at 9 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, and Fan Day on at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, in Halton Arena.
Catherine Bessant, global technology and operations executive at Bank of America, will chair the ninth annual “Let Me Play” luncheon being held on Thursday, Oct. 18, at the Charlotte Convention Center.
This annual event, the brainchild of Judy Rose, UNC Charlotte’s director of athletics, benefits the 49ers women’s athletics program.
After three weeks of strength and conditioning workouts, the Charlotte 49ers football team will participate in its first practice (in helmets and pads) from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Friday, Sept 21, on the practice fields adjacent to the stadium.
Trent Barnes was hired recently as the associate director and stadium complex manager in the Department of Student Activity Center and Recreational Facilities.
What a difference a year makes - groundbreaking for the 49ers football stadium took place on April 28, 2011, and in the intervening time, construction crews have worked to shape the new campus addition.
Progress on the stadium continues; however, since work began there has been:
