Mikalauskas stars for Lithuanians
By Barney Breen-Portnoy | June 29, 2006For most Virginia men's basketball players, summer consists of an endless stream of monotonous workouts.
For most Virginia men's basketball players, summer consists of an endless stream of monotonous workouts.
Mikalauskas playing for Lithuania in Global Games Sophomore forward Laurynas Mikalauskas (pictured at right) traveled to Dallas this week to participate in the 2006 Global Games, hosted by Southern Methodist University.
With intimate sideline and baseline seating, John Paul Jones arena has the potential to become one of the most intimidating places to play in the country.
Every four years, the globe stops spinning as the 32 best national soccer teams come together to face off in the month-long World Cup Tournament.
Even though summer has just begun, it is never too early to start thinking about football season.
Virginia golfer Jennie Arseneault has a talent for accomplishing things ahead of schedule: last winter she graduated high school a semester early in order to join Virginia's golf team for the spring season and two weeks ago, at the ripe old age of 18, she qualified to play in the upcoming U.S.
Virginia's historic season came to an abrupt and stunning halt when the No. 1 seeded Cavaliers were eliminated from the Charlottesville Regional of the NCAA Tournament after being routed by No.
Virginia baseball coach Brian O'Connor could not disguise his disappointment after the Cavaliers were eliminated by Evansville June 4 in the NCAA Tournament's opening round Charlottesville Regional.
The Virginia women's tennis team (13-9, 7-6 ACC) has come a long way this season -- from modest beginnings and uncertainty to completing one of the Cavaliers' best regular seasons in a decade.
While most of the Virginia student body will spend Saturday searching for the elusive horses at the Foxfield Races, the Virginia golf team will be playing the first 36 holes of the 19th annual Cavalier Classic. Tee-off is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.
Al Groh has put his "rebuilding" process on a fast track for success, all due to this past weekend's spring game.
With only one ACC series left in the season, the Virginia softball team travels to Boston College this weekend to play three of their final five games.
Virginia (35-10, 13-8 ACC) will close out the road portion of its conference schedule this weekend with a three-game set at Maryland (20-25, 7-17 ACC). With four weeks remaining until the ACC Tournament starts in Jacksonville, the Cavaliers have won 10 of their past 11 games and are ranked as high as No.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team's record just went from 13-3 to 0-0. The Cavaliers ended their regular season with a disappointing 8-4 loss to Georgetown.
After last week's emotional roller coaster that was the ACC Championships, the Virginia track and field team is looking forward to competing at this weekend's more laid-back Penn Relays. "Coming off conference you are emotionally spent," Virginia coach Randy Bungard said.
The instructions printed on the sticker at the top of my brand new student identification card were clear: Do not remove until 08/24/02. That was the date I was scheduled to move in to Dunnington 312 and join more than 3,000 other students in the Class of 2006 at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia baseball team managed to outlast the Richmond Spiders Wednesday night, coming up with a key mid-week victory at Davenport Field.
With the ACC baseball tournament less than one month away, the No. 13 Virginia Cavaliers (34-10, 13-8 ACC) are well on their way to orchestrating one of the most successful seasons in recent program history.
It's an issue no one seems to want to address. Partly because it's grossly unfair to the hundreds of student-athletes, coaches and staff that work so hard and achieve so much.
There won't be any royalties coming Pat Riley's way from the University of Virginia. The men's tennis team's quest for a threepeat, a term Riley trademarked, was stifled by Duke over the weekend in a disappointing 4-3 loss. But for the No.