Womensfieldhockey.com named Virginia field hockey freshman midfielder Paige Selenski National Rookie of the Year yesterday.
In the Monday, Nov. 24 Sports column titled ?Groh must ... stay??, the columnist wrote, ?When Peter Lalich?s father Todd tells The Daily Progress that Al Groh turns boys into men after Peter is kicked off the team, that tells me something.? The sentence should have stated, ?When Peter Lalich?s father Todd tells The Daily Progress that Al Groh turns boys into men after Peter is suspended from the team, that tells me something.? Todd Lalich?s statement was made before Peter Lalich officially left the Virginia football team.
Virginia?s volleyball team lost both of its matches this weekend in the team?s final road trip of the season.Visiting Wake Forest (19-12, 10-9 ACC) in a match Friday evening, the Cavaliers (16-15, 8-11 ACC) fell 3-1 (18-25, 25-20, 25-27, 25-19). Virginia was led in Friday?s match by senior outside hitter Beth Shelton, who put up 19 kills while landing a double-double with 13 digs.The Cavaliers traveled Saturday evening to Durham where they fell 3-0 (24-26, 15-25, 21-25). Two seniors, Shelton and middle blocker Shannon Davis, led the team with nine kills apiece in their final road match.The Cavaliers play their final match of the regular season Friday at 6 p.m.
The close game against VMI was considered an entertaining, high-scoring affair.
?I think our effort was there tonight,? senior midfielder/defender Nikki Krzysik said.
Should Virginia coach Al Groh be fired?It?s a question that sportswriters and fans have brought up following every game since Virginia was embarrassed at Duke 31-3 in Durham Sept.
?It?s a pretty easy game to describe, right?? Virginia coach Al Groh said.
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.
