UNC Tennis Player Charged With DWI, Hit-And-Run

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A University of North Carolina tennis player was arrested early Sunday morning after police said he drove while under the influence, crashed into two pedestrians and fled the scene.

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Chris Kearney, 20, was charged in the accident that seriously injured two women.

The UNC player was the 2007 ACC freshman tennis player of the year.

According to police, the car Kearney was driving veered off the road in the 200 block of Columbia Street in Chapel Hill just after 2:30 a.m.

Kearney's car then hit a wall and two female pedestrians on a sidewalk. They were transported to UNC Hospital, and their names and conditions were not released.

Dick Baddour, UNC's director of athletics, released a statement regarding the incident.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the students who were injured, and their families, as well as Chris and his family," he said. "We pray that they have a full recovery. This is a horrible way for a new school year to begin. We are shocked and saddened and deeply sorry that one of our student-athletes is involved in this type of accident."

Kearney is being held in the Orange County Jail on $50,000 bond.

He's been charged with two counts of inflicting personal injury, one count of driving while impaired, two counts of possessing a fake ID, felony hit-and-run, causing personal injury and consuming alcohol under the age of 21.