The Virginia cross-country teams turned in strong early-season performances at the Lou Onesty Invitational Saturday at Panorama Farms. The men's team finished second overall as Duke edged out the Cavs 35-55, though Virginia sophomore Andy Biladeau claimed the individual title by 12 seconds against High Point junior Tamas Kovacs.
Announced by conference officials Monday, Virginia women's soccer junior midfielder Nikki Krzysik earned the first ACC Player of the Week honors of her career after stellar performances in two matches last weekend.
California is known for its sunshine, movie stars and ... competitive soccer. The Virginia women's soccer team will get a firsthand taste of West Coast soccer as it travels to California to take on take on two nationally recognized programs in this weekend's Santa Clara adidas Classic.
The Virginia volleyball team will finish off the non-conference portion of its schedule this weekend when the Cavaliers head to San Diego to face Oklahoma, San Diego and UC Santa Barbara.
Hi, my name is Kevin, and I am a college football addict. I'm watching college football as I write this; I am probably thinking about college football as you read this.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but Monday was a cold, cold day in Charlottesville. I'm talking stick-your-tongue-to-a-mailbox, make-snowballs-between-class freezing.
This weekend the 14th-ranked Cavaliers travel to Vermont for the first time in school history to take on the New Hampshire Wildcats and the Vermont Catamounts in the Sheraton Catamount Classic. Virginia comes into the weekend with a 1-2 record after a defeat at the hands of the ninth-ranked Old Dominion Monarchs this past Sunday. After leading the team in scoring last season, sophomore midfielder Traci Ragukas will look to help the Cavaliers topple the Wildcats and Catamounts this weekend.
I am sure you all will read plenty of these types of articles in the coming weeks. I'm almost certain you have read one of these by now.
Coming into the 2007 NCAA women's field hockey season, the Atlantic Coast Conference has a stranglehold on the nation's finest talent.
Even though he considers himself no more or less important than any other member of the Virginia men's soccer team, Mike Giallombardo's green jersey makes it impossible for him to blend in with the rest of the Cavaliers.
At the start of the 2007 season, the Virginia women's soccer team began the preseason with a huge question: Who will start at goalkeeper?
Four freshman faces brought their skills and attitudes to this year's Virginia women's volleyball team.
I love watching sports on TV, especially baseball and football -- that is, except when Virginia loses by 20 to a team it should wallop.
"You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the land for two years ... In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself.
While some other University teams might have had a disappointing weekend, the Virginia women's soccer team surely did not.
Here we go again. Another bullet added to an ever-growing list of "bad guys" (and, why of course, girls) in the sports world.
Opening its season with 5-0 and 2-0 victories over Columbia and Richmond, respectively, the Virginia men's soccer team averaged more points per game this past weekend than did Cavalier football. Indeed, Friday night's five goals marks the highest number the Cavaliers have tallied in a single game since 2002. "What we had tonight was the willingness, and the killer instinct, to get the second goal," Virginia coach George Gelnovatch said.
Managing only 110 total yards on the day, Virginia fell to Wyoming 23-3 in its season opener. Sophomore quarterback Jameel Sewell was 11 of 23 for 82 yards and was intercepted twice.
The Virginia women's volleyball team posted a 2-1 record this weekend in the Marriott Jefferson Cup at Memorial Gymnasium, dropping their first match to Arkansas Friday night before rebounding to defeat Norfolk State and Temple Saturday. Virginia (4-2, 0-0 ACC) played without sophomore outside hitter Lauren Dickson, who was battling the same illness that plagued other members of the team earlier in the week. Despite the setback, the Cavaliers were very competitive against a tough Arkansas team.
The beginning of the school year at Virginia is accompanied by anticipation of new classes, parties, old friends and soccer season.
