For Virginia coach Al Groh, a man who emphasizes taking football one game at a time, it's crunch time. With four games remaining in the Cavaliers' schedule, it's time to start expanding the team's focus and to gear up for the rest of the season.
It seems safe to say that the common Virginia student does not know what is involved in ballroom dancing. Their perceptions are probably formed from television or movie images of fancily attired dancers circling around each other to the tunes of a waltz.
The turning of the calendar from October to November brings familiar rhetoric from Virginia football coach Al Groh. "What happens in November is going to determine how the thing all writes out," Groh said.
It's that special time of the month. As Bone Thugs 'N Harmony reminds us, "Wake up, wake up, wake up, it's the first of the month, so get up, get up, get up, cash those checks and come on." We're entering the 11th month of 2005, and a new month means new opportunities to be great, new chances for our sports teams do the impossible. And while one of the most underrated hip-hop groups of the 1990s may not harmonize to you at the beginning of each month, they certainly help me catch my breath, take a look around and see what's ahead in the foreseeable future.
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.
