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After a long and successful season, the No. 14 Virginia men’s swimming and diving team began their hardest test of the season Monday, as they entered the ACC Championships.
Virginia indoor track and field will travel to South Bend, Ind. to compete in the upcoming ACC Championships at Notre Dame this weekend. The competition will begin Thursday, Feb. 23 and continue until Saturday, Feb. 25.
Baseball
After an outstanding fall season, the Virginia men’s golf team enters the 2017 spring season on a mission.
Say what you will about Virginia’s strength of schedule or the overall quality of ACC men’s basketball this season. The bottom line is Virginia is reeling right now. Big time.
A challenging schedule brought out good and bad moments from the Virginia women’s golf team this past fall. Yet the Cavaliers, who rely on some young but emerging players, enter the spring 2017 season with high aspirations.
After Sunday night’s Super Bowl win by the New England Patriots, there was a lot of talk about if the Patriots are the greatest team of the modern era. Pundits claimed that a run like theirs could never be topped. You’ll have to forgive Virginia Men’s tennis coach Brian Boland, though, if he isn’t impressed.
Senior wrestler Will Mason sat at an abandoned table snacking on a Greek yogurt and an apple, fueling his body in preparation for practice. A crisp crunch pierced the air as he took another bite, but the minute Mason started talking, the stark silence faded and an electric energy took over.
No Virginia team has had more of an up-and-down season than women’s basketball. Last week the Cavaliers looked unstoppable, dismantling an impressive Virginia Tech squad via a 49-point shellacking. Three days later, they gave up 82 points in a losing effort against Notre Dame.
No. 9 Virginia faces No. 6 Louisville Monday at John Paul Jones Arena in a matchup between two top ACC teams.
Few things are more quintessentially American than standing up to tyrants. Those who persecute innocents, rule arbitrarily and capriciously, dismiss settled science as a hoax and lie with impunity deserve not only our silent scorn, but our overt disapproval. America touts a decorated record of defeating dictators, but unfortunately our nation is not immune to tyrants, and we now have one in our midst. This despot’s vast fortune and power must not deter us. This weekend, we must carry on the venerable American tradition of tormenting tyrants and register our displeasure with this clownish but fascistic overlord. It is unlikely we can drive him from power, but together we can make a statement.
Senior Luca Corinteli played a key role in helping the Cavaliers win the National Championship in 2016 with a doubles victory over Oklahoma. He hopes to bring that success into the 2017 season.
After two tough matches in as many weeks against top 10 opponents No. 5 Virginia Tech and No. 8 NC State, Virginia wrestling has a chance to get back on its feet in ACC play.
In its second preseason exhibition game this winter, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team scrimmaged Maryland Saturday in College Park. After losing to Bucknell, 9-7, last week, new head coach Lars Tiffany’s team mustered out a 17-15 win in five periods against the NCAA runner-up Terrapins.
The Virginia women’s tennis team had a busy weekend, taking on Ole Miss Saturday and Wake Forest Sunday as part of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend in Charlottesville.
Swimming and Diving
The No. 12 Virginia men’s basketball team travels to Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday looking to hand No. 1 Villanova its second-consecutive loss.
Former Virginia running back Taquan Mizzell participated Saturday in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, one of many pre-draft exhibition games for NFL hopefuls. The former five-star recruit amassed 96 rushing yards on nine attempts while also scoring a touchdown.
In the spring of 2015, the Virginia men’s swimming and diving teams were not in a good place. After Virginia finished eighth in the ACC Championship meet — the teams’ worst finish in program history — former Cavalier Daily columnist Matt Comey wrote that the Cavaliers were “in for a long stretch of mediocre recruiting and even worse team development.”
Dennis Hohenshelt has resigned as volleyball coach, acting athletics director Jon Oliver announced in a release Thursday. Hohenshelt compiled a 69-88 record in his five seasons at the helm of the program.