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Tall concrete pillars flood the grounds of Klöckner Stadium, several of which are emboldened with national championship banners. Of all the programs housed there, only one has never won the national title — No. 2 women’s soccer. The Cavaliers have been to the NCAA Tournament 33 times since their inaugural season in 1985 but have never claimed a national title.
Coming off of their road to semifinals in 2023, Virginia field hockey aims to continue dominating offensively in 2024. With a 14-7 record last year, the Cavaliers were able to hold off powerful teams like Penn State while even coming out on top against national champion North Carolina on their senior day. The team hopes to bring that same fire to their 2024 season, hopefully advancing even further into the NCAA championship.
Grounds is flooded with students again, the Corner is alive once more and class is back in session for the fall semester. That means another season of Virginia football is on the horizon. The Cavaliers will start their season with a matchup against Richmond Saturday at Scott Stadium, where they will attempt to start off 1-0 for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
As the 2024-25 academic year kicks into full swing, Virginia’s fall sports teams are readying themselves for the road ahead. Some have already begun play, while others are chomping at the bit to make their season debuts.
One of the best parts about being a Virginia fan is watching players grow into their full potential and achieve their dreams of competing at a higher level. While it may be heartbreaking to say goodbye to star players, their exit opens the door for new talent to arrive.
Seven gold stars sit atop the crest of the Virginia men’s soccer jersey, one for each national championship. Those stars represent a pedigree, a legacy. They mark an expectation.
The last 10 years of Virginia football have been unsatisfactory. The Cavaliers have stumbled to a 51-69 record, gone through three head coaches and managed only one winning season in the ACC. A program that once frequently contended for bowl games and national rankings in the late 20th century now views a .500 season as a success.
Kyle Guy is coming home. A legend synonymous with Virginia men’s basketball, the 2019 national champion led the Cavaliers during their title run by making clutch play after clutch play, landing him recognition as that year’s Final Four Most Outstanding Player. He has since spent three years in the NBA and two years in European professional basketball. Now, after retiring from basketball at 26 years old, he is coming back to Grounds — it was announced Wednesday that Guy will be an Athlete Development Mentor and Special Assistant to Coach Tony Bennett.
Current, former and future Virginia athletes won a combined 14 medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics — seven gold, five silver and two bronze — en route to helping the ACC earn the most medals of any NCAA conference.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has evolved. Three new schools have joined, and a new sport was officially added to the conference last year —- gymnastics. To continue being an ACC powerhouse, Virginia should add gymnastics as well.
Editor's note: This article is a humor column.
Festivities for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games began Friday, and plenty of Cavalier swimmers have arrived in Paris to compete. After winning four consecutive national titles, it is natural that Virginia women’s swimming is well-represented at the Games — Cavaliers dominated at the Olympic Trials in June and five Virginia women will compete in 11 individual swimming events in Paris. Rounding out the contingent of Cavaliers competing in the pool is Thomas Heilman, a 2025 recruit for Virginia men’s swimming.
Coach Tony Bennett has always led a strong program, but he has yet to win an NCAA Tournament game since the 2019 National Championship. With his position as leader of Virginia men’s basketball under unprecedented question, Athletic Director Carla Williams solidified Bennett’s status with a multi-year extension. Now, the Cavaliers appear well-positioned to finally get back to postseason dominance. With several key changes, such as the addition of a talented transfer class, a trio of writers share their thoughts on the upcoming season.
Virginia women’s soccer had a pair of athletes selected to national team rosters, as sophomore midfielder Yuna McCormack and sophomore goalkeeper Victoria Safradin were called to represent their countries on the global stage. McCormack is headed to Athens, Ga. for the United States’ U-20 Women’s Youth National Team Training Camp July 8, while Safradin reported to Zagreb, Croatia Thursday to start training with the Croatian women’s national team.
With the fall sports season just seven weeks away, there are several programs that have a lot to look forward to. A new coach for the field hockey program coming off a Final Four appearance, the third year of Coach Tony Elliott at Scott Stadium, added experience for both soccer programs and many more storylines to watch are already developing at this point in the offseason. Three writers from The Cavalier Daily share their thoughts on what to look out for.
Rising senior Gretchen Walsh was officially honored Wednesday as the recipient of the Mary Garber Award, given annually to the best female student-athlete in the ACC. The younger Walsh sister dominated her competition with ease in 2024 and now receives another honor before joining two other current Cavaliers — and Virginia swimming and diving coach Todd DeSorbo — competing for the United States at the Paris Olympics.
The history of Virginia baseball is one of especially recent success, but in the two decades of Coach Brian O’Connor’s tenure, the program has produced a wealth of MLB ballplayers. Washington Nationals legend Ryan Zimmerman, a three-year starting third baseman for the Cavaliers and World Series-winning MLB starter, recently spoke at Final Exercises. Utility player Chris Taylor and relief pitcher-turned-pitching advisor Sean Doolittle both played critical roles in bringing World Series titles to Los Angeles in 2020 and Washington, D.C. in 2019, respectively.
On a tee box June 13, surrounded by the U.S. Open’s typical swaying banners and milling masses, the twinkling past of Virginia men’s golf united with its gleaming present.
No. 12 seed Virginia baseball saw its season come to an end Sunday afternoon at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb. in a 7-3 loss to No. 8 seed Florida State. The Cavaliers (46-17, 18-12 ACC) faced elimination from the College World Series after a 3-2 walkoff loss to No. 4 seed North Carolina placed them in the loser’s bracket of their group Friday. In a must-win situation, Virginia saw similar results to its exit from the ACC Tournament, also at the hands of the Seminoles (48-16, 17-12 ACC), in which it was overpowered on both sides of the ball. With the loss, the Cavaliers have now been swept out of two consecutive College World Series and have won just one game in their last three trips to Omaha since 2021.
Virginia’s season now hangs in the balance after a 3-2 walkoff loss at the hands of North Carolina. One more loss in bracket play would lead to an early Omaha exit for the second year in a row. A lot of uncertainty hangs in the air as lineup mainstays in sophomore outfielder Harrison Didawick and graduate outfielder Bobby Whalen both went 0-4 in the opener — and O’Connor may have to keep them out of today’s lineup entirely.