The Virginia baseball team started out well in its three-game set last weekend, with wins over Elon and North Florida.
With their collegiate careers coming to a close, senior center Siedah Williams and senior guard Brenna McGuire will surely have their adrenaline pumping in their last game in front of the home crowd at John Paul Jones Arena, especially after knocking off Virginia Tech last night 79-76 in Blacksburg. Saturday, the Virginia women's basketball team (15-11, 4-7 ACC) will need large contributions from these two experienced seniors to avenge a disappointing loss to Florida State (18-7, 7-3 ACC) earlier in the season.
Earlier this week, the ACC named five Virginia field hockey student-athletes to the 2006 All-ACC Academic Field Hockey team.
The Virginia men's lacrosse team will begin defending its No. 1 preseason ranking Sunday. The season opener pits the Cavaliers against the Drexel Dragons, with face off scheduled for 1 p.m. "Everybody's ready, everybody's excited and we're ready to bring it to Drexel on Sunday," senior goalie Kip Turner said. The Cavalier-Dragon season opener has become somewhat of a tradition for the two schools.
The Virginia women's basketball team will hit the road tonight looking for revenge tonight as they take on the Virginia Tech Hokies in Blacksburg, Va.
Freshman third baseman Abby Snyder is no ordinary freshman on the Virginia softball team. Normally, freshmen on collegiate sports teams sit out a year or two and see little to no action while they learn the game from their older teammates.
Returning from a 15-4 season in 2006 that included an ACC championship (the team's second in three years) and advancing to the NCAA Championships for the 11th consecutive year, the Virginia women's lacrosse team is working hard to prepare for the 2007 season. The squad opened up the season with a series of scrimmages at the South of the Border Tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C., where the Cavaliers faced ACC-rivals Duke, North Carolina and Davidson. "We have been working a lot harder this preseason than in the past," senior co-captain Jess Wasilewski said.
A week or two ago, my roommate Steve threw out a trivia question that stumped myself and our other roommate Jeff.
Coming off a big win against Duke Sunday, the Cavaliers will take on Maryland in College Park Friday and end the season with a dual meet against No.
Last year the men's lacrosse team defined every aspect of what success can be. They went a perfect 17-0 for the season (the first team in NCAA Division I history to do so) and won the national championship.
Sometimes a little home cooking is just the trick you need -- that proved to be exactly the case last night for the Virginia men's basketball team.
If anyone has an excuse to sleep through an 8 a.m. class, it would be the members of the Virginia men's crew team.
I'm not an advocate of the theory that sports are of great consequence to very much in the world.
Swimming is peculiar in that the regular season is first and foremost a period of preparation for the postseason's championship meets.
As President Casteen gave his State of the University address last week, I began to reflect on the state of our athletic conference, the ACC. It seems like only yesterday (July 2004, actually) when the league expanded to 11 teams, bringing an end to the beloved home and away series in basketball and the chance to play each team in football every year. No longer could Virginia fans count on the opportunity to scream at Coach K every season or keep up with all of ACC football.
No matter how excited we are about the potential of the Virginia basketball team this season (and deservingly so), Wahoos across the country can no longer afford to keep all their attention on Virginia hoops.
Wright led the women's team in scoring in both games this week, tallying 20 points in a win against North Florida and 19 against No.
After a humiliating and deflating loss to Virginia Tech Saturday, the Virginia men's basketball team will look to get back on track tonight.
The Virginia men's lacrosse team not only won its third national championship in eight seasons last spring, but also was the first team in NCAA Division I history to go 17-0, winning by an average of nearly eight goals per game.
Despite a solid second-half effort, Virginia was unable to overcome a 20-point halftime deficit, as the Cavaliers fell 83-74 to the No.6 Terrapins in front of a crowd of 7,107 at the John Paul Jones Arena. "It's tough taking losses, but we fought hard," junior point guard Sharnee Zoll said.
