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After a long eight months since its last game, Virginia baseball will begin the season by participating in the inaugural Puerto Rico Invitational Challenge Feb.14-16. Hosted by the cities of Ponce and Mayagüez, the tournament will feature eight high-level collegiate baseball programs playing in the new highly-anticipated round-robin competition.
No. 5 Virginia suffered its first loss of the season Saturday, falling 4-2 to No. 7 Michigan at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville. Despite a strong start in doubles, the Cavaliers (6-1, 0-0) were unable to carry the momentum into singles play, where they were overpowered by the Wolverines (3-0, 0-0 Big 10), struggling with unforced errors on their way to a third consecutive loss to Michigan.
No. 5 Virginia entered Friday night’s home match against No. 3 Ohio State hungry for a win. Both teams came in undefeated, with the visitors not having lost a single point on the season.
Members of the Virginia squash team competed in the CSA Individual Championships over the weekend, with six members from both the men’s and women’s squads making the trip to New York in hopes of bringing home silverware. The multi-tournament style allowed for multiple Cavaliers a chance to vie for their bracket’s top spot.
In the summer of 2015, Virginia baseball was the king of the hill. After starting out as a No. 3 seed in the Lake Elsinore Regional hosted by UC Santa Barbara, the team shocked the world by winning three consecutive games to advance to the super regional. From there, they defeated Maryland in a two-game sweep at home and punched their ticket to Omaha. The Cavaliers’ dominance continued in Nebraska — the team won five out of their seven games to win their first ever national championship.
Every athletic program wants young contributors who hit the ground running and contribute early in the season, especially when their seniors get off to a slow start. No. 5 Virginia is no exception. After a shaky start and close win Saturday against Boise State, the Cavaliers (4-0, 0-0 ACC) jettisoned any doubt in an impressive win over No. 19 Alabama Sunday to qualify for the ITA National Team Indoor Tennis Championships in Waco and Dallas, Texas., Feb. 13 to 17.
In 2017, Carla Williams was hired as the University’s tenth athletic director. Seven eventful years later — including one national championship in men’s basketball, four in women’s swimming and diving, two in men’s lacrosse and two in men’s tennis — Williams signed a five-year contract extension in December 2024. Though the athletic director role is not a traditionally hot-button topic on college campuses, the decision to extend her contract has been met with unusually widespread criticism which misconstrues what has been a holistically successful tenure. Rather than being deserved, the current backlash against Williams speaks to a newfound and problematic culture of immediacy in college sports. This culture, which values short-term results over long-term growth, imposes unfair benchmarks onto athletic directors like Williams whose strength lies in their longer-term strategies.
The baseball field at Justice High School in Falls Church, Va. is special for a couple reasons. For one, it is a turf field, which is not common among high school baseball fields. Second, the “thwack,” of a baseball being hit rings out audibly across neighboring streets because the field sits high above adjacent roads. It is a lovely place for baseball.
No. 1 Virginia and No. 2 Texas have been the top programs in women’s swimming and diving for the past few years. In the 2024 NCAA Championships, the Cavaliers took home the national title with 527.5 points while the Longhorns came in second with 441. In the 2023 NCAA Championships, the same placement occurred — Virginia took the top spot with Texas right behind. It happened again in 2022. It would have happened in 2021 too, but the Longhorns finished third. Still, these teams are seemingly always facing off in must-watch meets.
No. 5 Virginia delivered a thrilling 4-3 win Saturday over No. 7 Duke after beating New Mexico Friday, capping the two-day ITA Kickoff Weekend and winning its region of the national qualifier. The Cavaliers (6-0, 0-0 ACC), with their victory at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, punched their ticket to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships, which will take place Feb. 7-10 in Evanston, Ill.
Virginia Athletics celebrated National Girls & Women in Sports Day at the women’s basketball game Jan. 26 versus Louisville ahead of the official holiday which is celebrated Feb. 5. Since the team does not play at home again until Feb. 6, it was decided that the celebration would be held early. Several stars from the 2024 Paris Olympics such as senior swimmer Gretchen Walsh, Class of 2023 swimming alumna Kate Douglass and senior rower Sky Dahl signed autographs postgame as part of the celebration.
Growing up, if you told Shane Cohen he was going to sign with Nike as a professional runner, he probably would have looked at you funny. Then he would have gone back to shooting baskets. But now, after a remarkable 2024 outdoor season at Virginia where he claimed a national title in the 800-meter, earned All-American First Team honors and set a personal best in the 800-meter final at the Olympic Trials, the fantasy of becoming a professional athlete has become a reality.
No. 9 Virginia upset No. 6 North Carolina 4-3 Monday at the Boar's Head Sports Club in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers (4-0, 0-0 ACC) rallied in singles play, with senior Melodie Collard clinching the winning point, to overcome an early deficit after they dropped the doubles point against the Tar Heels (3-1, 0-0 ACC).
Obviously, Virginia women’s swimming and diving is the back-to-back-to-back-to-back national champion. Four straight times have the Cavaliers staked their claim as the nation’s very best, but the number four is also significant for another reason — Virginia signed four of the top 11 swimmers in the 2024 high school recruiting class.
Aly Khalifa planned it all out. The words, the phrasing. He had a script, written out on his phone, rehearsed with a close friend.
Last spring, Virginia women’s tennis achieved its second regular-season conference title ever, posting an overall record of 25-5, the program’s first season ever with 25 wins. With last spring’s successes as well as the program’s first ever NCAA doubles championship under their belts, the No. 9 Cavaliers embarked Wednesday on their 2025 spring season.
As the adage goes, nothing lasts forever. Decay is inevitable — at least in concept. Virginia women’s swimming and diving has continued to defy that old phrase at the Aquatic and Fitness Center. Saturday, the Cavalier women beat Virginia Tech 215 to 85 while Virginia’s men were bested 198-102 by the Hokies. Coach Todd DeSorbo’s bunch has won four straight national championships, and there is reason to believe they will continue to be a frontrunner for years to come.
2024 was, all things considered, a good year for Virginia Athletics. Women’s swimming and diving captured its fourth consecutive national title to go alongside the many records broken by senior Gretchen Walsh, graduate student Alex Walsh and Class of 2023 alumna Kate Douglass. Baseball returned to Omaha for the third time in four years, reestablishing itself as a perennial national powerhouse. Men’s lacrosse made it back to Championship Weekend for the second straight season.
After a two-week break following duals with Pennsylvania and VMI, Virginia wrestling returned to action Friday, traveling to Bethlehem, Pa., for the Sheridan Invitational, hosted by Lehigh. 14 Cavaliers wrestled at the tournament — two of them competing unattached — and eight placed.
Set after set would result in a Cavalier kill. Various outside hitters would thunderously slam the ball into opposition territory. But before the kill, a strong play was almost always attributed to the set-up, always done by one player — senior setter Ashley Le.