The Virginia women's rowing team received its fifth consecutive invitation to the NCAA Championship meet in Gainsville, Ga., which will take place May 24-26. The Cavaliers finished third last year and was in the top four in each of the past four years.
Virginia will send three boats - the first and second varsity eight, and the first varsity four - to compete against Boston University, Brown, the University of California, Harvard, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio State, Princeton and Washington.
In its last regatta, the Eastern Sprints in Camden, N.J., on Sunday, Virginia's first varsity eight finished eighth, its second varsity eight finished placed fifth, and its first varsity four was third in their respective races.
NCAA bound
Virginia javelin thrower Inge Jorgensen tossed a personal best 53.42 meters at the UNC-NCUU May Madness meet in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Tuesday to automatically qualify for the event in the NCAA championships in June. Her throw is the top qualifying mark in the NCAA this year and earned her second place in the meet.
Virginia javelin thrower Brian Koller won the men's side of the event to keep him undefeated on the year. He currently stands third in the NCAA with a toss of 74.22 meters in the Cape Fear Classic in March. Kollar, the ACC javelin toss champion, has also qualified automatically for the NCAA championship meet.
Javelin thrower John Welch, distance runner Dana Coons, Dawn Cleary, who runs the steeplechase, and Kiamesha Otey, a 100-meter sprinter and long jumper, are other Cavaliers who have qualified provisionally for the NCAA championships.
Virginia track and field coach Randy Bungard also became the first Cavalier track and field coach to win ACC coach of the year honors since 1984 when he captured this year's award. Bungard coached Virginia from an eighth place conference finish in 2000 to a third place finish in 2001, the team's highest mark since 1984. Under his guidance, eight Cavaliers earned All-ACC honors.
Guarding the nation
The USA Basketball Men's National Team invited Virginia men's basketball guard Roger Mason Jr. to attend tryouts for the team at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Col., from June 1-3. The sophomore is one of 45 participants in the tryout where the 2001 USA Basketball World Championship for Young Men Qualifying Team and the 2001 USA Basketball World University Games Team will be selected.
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Mason earned third-team All-ACC honors this season by averaging 15.7 points per game. He made 47.6 percent of his field goal attempts and 44.2 from beyond the arc. Mason led the ACC with a school-record 88.4 free throw shooting percentage and was a co-recipient of Virginia's Bill Gibson Cavalier of the Year award.
The USA World Championship for Young Men Qualifying Team will play in the 2001 FIBA World Championship for Young Men Tournament in Saitama, Japan, on Aug. 3-12. The USA World University Games Team will compete in the World University Games in Beijing, China, from Aug. 22 to Sept. 1.
Bumping over
Virginia volleyball coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton announced on Tuesday that Matt Ginipro will serve as the new assistant coach new year. Ginipro joins Shelton's staff after a year as assistant coach at the University of Mississippi, where he helped the Lady Rebels to an SEC tournament spot after only winning one conference match in 1999. Prior to his stint with in Mississippi, Ginipro was an asssistant coach at his alma-mater, Virginia Tech.
Virginia freshman Katie Synan was also one of 12 players invited to the second round of tryouts for the 2001 USA Volleyball Women's Junior National Team. She will vie for one of six spots on the team from May 25-28 in State College, Pa.
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