Eight months ago tomorrow, the Virginia women?s basketball team fell in a tight match to Old Dominion at the Monarchs? arena in Norfolk, Va.
The Virginia men?s and women?s cross country teams finish their respective seasons today in the NCAA National Championships, and both teams have high hopes of capturing the title in Terre Haute, Ind.
The night before the final home football game of the season marks an emotional time for the Virginia football team.
He?s played just two regular-season games, but freshman guard Sylven Landesberg ? ?Learning Center,? as some have dubbed him ? is already way ahead of the curve.As Virginia prepares to take on Radford tonight at John Paul Jones Arena, it has a common denominator in each of its close wins to open the season: Landesberg was the leading Virginia scorer.
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The Virginia wrestling team will continue to hit the mat hard this weekend as it takes on No.
Relentless. With the way the Virginia volleyball team has been performing lately, the description seems applicable.
The accolades continue to pour in for the Virginia field hockey team, as five Cavaliers were named to the Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-South Region Teams.Senior back Inge Kaars Sijpesteijn and freshman midfielder Paige Selenski were selected for the first team, while junior midfielder/forward Traci Ragukas, freshman midfielder/back Michelle Vittese and freshman back Floor Vogels were named to the second team.
Following one of the biggest wins in team history, the women?s basketball team must turn around and face another tough opponent on the road tonight in Norfolk, Va.Then-No.
For all intents and purposes, Virginia?s 77-75 win against South Florida was its season debut.Before I get to why it was a debut, let?s appreciate how fitting a matchup it was for coaches to try to gauge their teams at this point in the season.
In a game that lacked the basket-to-basket offensive excitement of last Sunday?s matchup against VMI, the Virginia men?s basketball team worked out a 77-75 victory against South Florida last night.?Without playing particularly well today, we were still able to win and do it a little bit gutty,? Virginia coach Dave Leitao said.One player who showed a lot of guts was freshman guard Sylven Landesberg, who played nothing like a freshman in this game, especially down the stretch.
No one said married life was easy. But senior Jon Copper takes it to an entirely new dimension.While starting 36 consecutive games and counting for Virginia at inside linebacker, Copper is also the only current football player for Virginia who has tied the knot.
There?s a lot to look forward to during Thanksgiving Break: your old bed, sleeping in, awkward questions from distant family members.
After taking part in four first-place races at the double dual meet with Florida State and Penn State during the weekend, including an Aquatic & Fitness Center record time in the 200 back, junior Mei Christensen was awarded the Counsilman Hunsaker National Collegiate Swimmer-of-the-Week honors by CollegeSwimming.com.Christensen?s time of 1:56.42 beat the old time of 1:57.13, set in 2002 by Class of 2006 graduate Brielle White, a seven-time All-American backstroker and two-time ACC Swimmer of the Year in her career at Virginia.In addition to her record first-place time in the 200 back, Christensen also won the 100 back (54.59) and swam a leg of the first-place finishing 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay teams as the women?s team claimed two convincing victories, 216-129 against Florida State and 201-148 against Penn State.?compiled by Paul Montana
Advancing to the NCAA Championships in cross country is quite an accomplishment, earning an automatic berth is even more impressive, but having both men?s and women?s teams automatically qualify for nationals falls into the realm of the remarkable.The Virginia women?s cross country team?s first-place finish at last Saturday?s NCAA Southeast Regionals, coupled with the Cavalier men?s runner-up team performance, marks just the third time in program history that both squads have advanced to nationals and the first time both have made it on automatic bids.?I think it?s a huge step,? senior Andrew Jesien said.
I have three regrets in my life up to this point. The first is falling asleep during the 2006 Rose Bowl.
Lost in the shuffle of Kurt Warner?s resurrection, the Tennessee Titans? out-of-nowhere undefeated record and the Detroit Lions forgetting how to win a game, is, in my opinion, the feel-good story of the year.
The No. 16 Virginia women?s basketball team upset reigning national champion No.
As the 2008-09 men?s basketball campaign gets underway, there is one question that coaches, players, fans and media alike are trying to answer: What is the effect of the new 3-point line?The rule change to move the line back was passed in the spring of 2007 to take effect starting this season; the line now sits 20 feet, 9 inches from the basket, one foot further than the previous line of 19 feet, 9 inches.With the three-ball turning into a short jump shot in recent years as big men expanded their games to the perimeter and as players became more athletic and versatile on the whole, basketball has clearly become a perimeter-based game; in 1986-87, Division I games averaged 9.1 3-point attempts per game, an number that has climbed steadily to an all-time high of 19.07 3-point attempts per game last season.
The early signing period for NCAA volleyball ends tomorrow, and Virginia?s team has landed two key recruits.Tobi Farrar, one of the signed recruits, is a middle blocker from Arlington, Texas.
