The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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46 ■ THE WOLFPACKER spending considerable time this year looking back at the enactment of Ti- tle IX's regulations, NC State has cel- ebrated by extending its new golden age of women's athletics. Last fall, head coach Laurie Henes led her Wolfpack women's cross coun- try team to the school's first national championship in any sport since 1983 and the first for a women's team since the 1980 AIAW cross country title. Henes' program has won six consecu- tive ACC titles. Henes, an individual national cham- pion herself during her career as an NC State distance runner, has coached back-to-back titles in the event she won, the 5,000-meter run. Her oldest daughter, Elly Henes, won in 2021, and sophomore Katelyn Tuohy finished first in 2022. Wes Moore guided his team to an unprecedented third consecutive ACC basketball tournament championship this past season. It marked the first time since coach Everett Case led the men's team to titles in 1954, '55 and '56 that NC State basketball has won three league tournament crowns in a row. The past two years, the Wolfpack women's swimming program has soared in both the final standings at the NCAA Championships and in national titles won. The 2021 team finished second na- tionally, the best showing in program history, with five total national titles — two by Sophie Hansson, one by Katha- rine Berkoff, and two relay titles. This year, the women finished fifth overall, and Berkoff won the 100-yard back- stroke title for the second year in a row. Finally, Earnshaw's women's tennis team had the most successful season in program history, spending the entire campaign ranked in the top 8 nation- ally, reaching as high as No. 2. At the 2022 NCAA Championships in Champaign, Ill., Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller combined to win the women's doubles title, the first national crown of any kind for the tennis program. The Wolfpack seems poised to enter the next half century of women's ath- letics set up for continued success. ■ Tim Peeler is a regular contributor to The Wolfpacker and can be reached at tmpeeler@ncsu.edu. Jaeda Daniel (left) and Nell Miller captured NC State's first national championship in women's tennis earlier this year, defeating a team from Miami (Fla.) to take the NCAA doubles title. PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE ATHLETICS