Turns out the travel agency the woman's volleyball team used to go to China, completely fleeced some other programs, namely New Mexico. They lost over $150,000 when the company took their money and told them a week before the trip that they never purchased the plane tickets and were filing for bankruptcy. Turns out the guy who owned the company was creating another travel agency because he knew his was going under. He was a major scam artist.
The UNC team was lucky as about 1/2 the teams that went through that company got fleeced.
They even used footage of the UNC trip on the story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=3994154
The UNC team was lucky as about 1/2 the teams that went through that company got fleeced.
They even used footage of the UNC trip on the story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=3994154