It's no secret that the overall age of players on a team affects how the team plays as a unit. This year's swimming team is split in an interesting dichotomy when it comes to age.
It took 21 years to return to Charlottesville, but the ACC title now rests with the No. 18 Virginia men's cross country team. After Virginia junior Jan Foerster crossed the finish line in fourth place with a time of 24:00.4 Monday, four consecutive Virginia runners followed close behind. With a 4-5-6-7-8 finish and all of its runners turning in times under 25 minutes, Virginia claimed the conference title over second-place No.
The men's cross country team captured their first conference title since 1984 yesterday, outrunning second place FSU.
The women's soccer team will begin defending its title as the 2004 ACC Tournament Champion tomorrow at noon in Cary, N.C.
Like a car running out of gas in the middle of the highway, every last drop of adrenaline had evaporated from the Virginia bench.
If there was ever a treatment to cure the bitter feeling after a terrible loss, the Temple Owls would be it.
The Virginia women's golf team continued its fall schedule with a third-place finish in the Landfall Tradition Sunday. Purdue placed first and ACC rival Wake Forest beat out the Cavaliers for second place. Virginia fired rounds of 304, 299 and 303, earning a final tally of 906.
The men's cross country team earned its first ACC Championship in 21 years Monday. No. 18 Virginia defeated second place-finisher Florida State by eight points.
The name is Gilbert. By trade he is a computer consultant. His heart, however, rests between the walls of Memorial Gymnasium as a self-proclaimed women's volleyball groupie.
Defense, both good and bad, was the story of the weekend for the Virginia volleyball team as it closed out a home stand at Memorial Gymnasium.
The No. 5 Virginia men's soccer team seemingly had Saturday evening's game against No. 12 Virginia Tech wrapped up.
The Virginia field hockey team closed out its regular season Sunday with a 4-0 loss to the No. 2 Duke Blue Devils. No.
The Virginia women's golf team is currently in second place of 12 teams at the Landfall Tradition Tournament after the second round.
Virginia's 14th-ranked men's and women's swimming and diving teams defeated Clemson Saturday to win their first meets of the 2005-06 season. The men won 141-100, while the women triumphed 125-118. The Cavalier women started off slow, losing their first four events before creeping back, winning six of the final nine events to score the victory. With the victories, both squads improved to 1-1 on the season. The Clemson men also stand at 1-1; the women are 0-2.
The clock wound down as the crowd cheered it along, "Five, four, three, two, one." Then the buzzer sounded, and it was over.
A win over N.C. State this Saturday would secure the Virginia women's soccer team the No. 2 seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament.
Heading into last Saturday's game against North Carolina, the Virginia football team was on a high.
Blink and you've missed it. In the time it takes to read this sentence, sophomore outside hitter Sarah Kirkwood has tossed the volleyball towards the rafters of Memorial Gym, leapt to meet it and fired a serve over the net with enough spin to make Roger Clemens jealous. "Point Cavaliers: ACE," booms the announcer in what has become an all-too-common sight at Virginia volleyball games.
With the Virginia field hockey team struggling to find wins as the regular season winds down, the Cavaliers will call on their most experienced players to lead the team against No.
With the ACC Tournament looming just 10 days away, the No. 5 Virginia men's soccer team is making preparations for what it hopes will be a postseason run to remember. Instead of adding extra meetings, practices and matches to the schedule, however, Virginia coach George Gelnovatch has elected to give his players a few days of well-deserved rest before Saturday's game against No.
