In what is starting to become a familiar storyline, the Virginia men's lacrosse team started slowly but, once again, won going away.
MINNEAPOLIS, M.N. -- I've got good news. Virginia has a basketball team that we can be proud of around Grounds.
All season long, the Virginia softball team has talked about bringing it all together. In a weekend when the Cavaliers finally began to do just that -- pitching, hitting and defending at opportune times -- they still couldn't put together a complete tournament. Virginia hosted the Hoo's Who Tournament, a round-robin-style tournament featuring Bowling Green (7-15), East Carolina (35-8), Rutgers (0-16) and Toledo (14-9), this weekend at The Park.
Most people may assume that as the defending national champions, Virginia would not have much need for improvement. The Cavalier women's lacrosse team (3-1, 1-0 ACC) knows that scenario is simply not the case.
After rain suspended the match last Sunday against Florida State, the No. 2Virginia men's tennis team will continue its ACC schedule this Sunday afternoon at home against the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech (7-4,1-1 ACC). The suspension came as a bitter disappointment for the Cavaliers, who were relishing the opportunity to renew their rivalry with the Seminoles. "My freshmen year, we went down to FSU and lost in a very tough match," junior Nick Meythaler said.
If you've watched any ESPN in the past week or so, chances are you've seen promotions for the "other" March Madness: the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
With U-Hall vacated for the year (by the team and the coach), there has never been a better chance to check out the hidden diamond that is located just across the street.
The women's crew team was ranked sixth in the nation in the pre-season Varsity Eight Coaches poll.
Senior Paul Bjorlo and freshman Rocco Caponi both fell in their first match in the 2005 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
They are called the Wet Wahoos, and they are often overlooked in the world of swimming in Charlottesville, given the consistency and success of the Virginia men's and women's varsity swimming and diving team.
The entire fate of Virginia women's swimming does not rest on the times of three swimmers. Today, however, juniors Rachael Burke and Brielle White and sophomore Jenny Steiner are swimming to prove that the Virginia women can compete with the nation's best at the 2005 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, hosted by Purdue University. Within the last year, two Virginia women's swimming streaks were broken.
Sometimes one game can change an entire season. The Virginia softball team hopes that last Friday's 4-1 victory over Hawaii to close out the Hawaiian Airlines Spring Fling Tournament will mark a turnaround point in a so far challenging year. The last three weeks have been difficult for the softball team.
Virginia brought its bats Wednesday against Coppin State, routing the Eagles 15-1 at Davenport Field. The Cavaliers' 15 runs marked their largest offensive output of the season.
The Pete Gillen Era is over. Finally. The fiery Irishman still got his golden pot at the end of the rainbow, but the ride turned out to be quite bumpy with just one NCAA bid in seven years. It's a shame that he did not turn in more on-court success, but he's left some valuable pieces for his successor.
Thanks in large part to the parity surrounding college basketball, March has forever been referred to as "March Madness." However, amidst a disappointing season for the men's basketball team, Cavalier fans have been forced to look elsewhere for their sports fix.
When the women's NCAA basketball tournament bracket was announced Sunday, many of the decisions made by the selection committee may have caused some people to scratch their heads. Pac-10 champion Stanford was given a two seed despite being the No.
Entering last night's contest, the Virginia men's lacrosse team had faced Mount St. Mary's just once before, a 19-8 Cavalier drubbing two years ago in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Despite a shaky offensive performance in the first half of last night's game, Virginia was able to jumpstart in the final 30 minutes to earn its second career victory against the Mount, 11-4. Mount St.
I should feel compelled to write about Pete Gillen this week. As a friend of mine put it, "You've got to be hoping Gillen gets fired because that's like, four free columns." I should be chomping at the bit to jump on the bandwagon and rip Pete Gillen on his way out of University Hall -- Or, if I felt so inclined, bemoan the firing of a man who cared about this community as much as any other coach could and yet was the scapegoat for a program problems that transcended its head coach. I won't write about Gillen though, mainly because every other sportswriter in the greater Virginia area wrote about it either yesterday today -- or will in the near future.
I had never seen such optimism from Virginia basketball players and fans as I did Sunday evening.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team needed to bounce back from Friday's 9-6 loss to Penn State. The Cavaliers (3-1, 1-0 ACC) were able to do just that with an 11-5 win over Richmond (0-4) Sunday. "It was nice to play again so quickly after Friday night," Virginia coach Julie Myers said.
