There's always that one guy who every successful team needs. The guy who will rise above to snatch the key rebound out of the air.
Two Virginia women's soccer players picked in WUSA draft Senior defender Kelly Worden and senior forward Darci Borski were selected in succession during the third round of the WUSA draft on Sunday.Worden was picked by the Boston Breakers, and Borski will be joining the Washington Freedom. Worden, picked 19th overall, was team captain and an All-ACC first team selection for the 2002 Cavaliers, setting a school record with 2,040 minutes played on the season.
Kickers. Football kickers. There's just something about kickers that separates them from their teammates.
Virginia men's basketball coach Pete Gillen announced yesterday that sophomore guard Keith Jenifer has been suspended indefinitely for "conduct detrimental to the team." He has been charged by local police with assault and battery. Jenifer will not participate in games or practices for the duration of the suspension, the length of which has yet to be decided.
Congratulations, you got him. You reeled him in. Public enemy number one has now been neutralized for the time being.
Was it case of discipline or just a clever strategic move? After spending the first half on the bench for violating team rules, junior forward Anna Crosswhite scored 13 points on 5-8 shooting to lead a Virginia offense that outscored Clemson 46-28 in the second-half to a 69-54 win at U-Hall. "I'm thinking about doing that in the future," Virginia Coach Debbie Ryan said of keeping Crosswhite on the bench for half the game.
Track Teams Compete at Penn State National Track and Field Open The Cavaliers put on a top-rate performance last weekend, with highlights from both the men's and women's sides.
The story of Virginia's game against Clemson truly was a tale of two halves. Virginia scored 23 points in the first half, then managed to put up 46 in the next 20 minutes.
ATLANTA -- For Virginia, Saturday's game at Georgia Tech represented an opportunity to break a pair of streaks.
With the ACC basketball season just getting into full swing and temperatures finally hovering around 40, last year's highest-ranked Virginia sports team, the men's lacrosse squad, took the field Saturday to battle Navy in the first of four preseason scrimmages. No official score was kept for the scrimmage, but unofficially the Cavaliers defeated the Midshipmen 10-4 at U-Hall Turf Field in the earliest scrimmage in team history -- a full three weeks before the season's first contest. "This is about as early as it gets," Virginia coach Dom Starsa said.
The Virginia women's tennis team can look forward to a strong season after their home win against Old Dominion on Friday night at the Boar's Head Sports Club.
The Cavaliers return to home action tonight in hopes of claiming their third conference win and exacting revenge for a one-point loss to Clemson earlier this season.
The Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams will need to pack their parkas along with their speed and strength as they head to Pittsburgh this weekend.
Chapel Hill, N.C. -- No. 7 North Carolina is known for its defense, but it was Nikita Bell's early second-half offensive burst that put Virginia in a hole they were unable to climb out of. The six-foot forward scored six straight points to open second half play, helping ignite the struggling Tar Heel offense into shooting 50 percent from the field and nearly doubling its first half tally on the way to a 74-54 romp over the Cavaliers.
The Virginia wrestling team takes a hot streak on the road this weekend to Blacksburg to face in-state foe, Virginia Tech.
Chapel Hill, N.C. -- The Tar Heels were the better team tonight. While North Carolina was calm, collected and businesslike, Virginia was sloppy, frantic and in shambles. It's not that the Cavaliers couldn't have won this game; it's not even that North Carolina was too deep, too strong or too athletic for Virginia to keep up.
Riding the wave of a two-game winning streak, Virginia looks to remain in fifth place of the ACC standings with a win Saturday afternoon against Georgia Tech.
As the result of a total team effort, Virginia (12-6, 3-3 ACC) cruised to an 85-72 victory over Florida State last night.
Virginia baseball picked to finish seventh in the ACC The 2003 ACC Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll was announced yesterday with Virginia slated to finish seventh in the ACC.
