This weekend, the Virginia football team will face its first challenge from a ranked team since upsetting South Carolina in September.
The Virginia women's crew team will finish their fall races this weekend when they host the Rivanna Romp at the Rivanna Reservoir on Sunday at 9 a.m. Both the Virginia varsity and novice teams are coming off terrific efforts, with the novice team dominating Georgetown at home last weekend. The varsity squad has had plenty of time to prepare for the Romp, as they haven't participated in a race since The Princeton Chase on Oct.
The No. 11 Virginia men's soccer team is looking to end the season in strong fashion tonight as they battle against the Owls of Temple in Klöckner Stadium at 7. Virginia will honor seven of its seniors tonight as they play their final regular season game at home. A win tonight will give the Cavaliers an overall record of 13-5 and cap off a perfect home record of 12 victories. Temple (6-12-1, 3-7-1 A-10) just recently tied Xavier last Sunday and will be looking to step up their play against Virginia by ending their perfection at Klöckner. In a rain-soaked game, the Cavaliers found the back of the net twice and handed Pittsburgh their ninth loss on Tuesday night.
You'd think that such a hard-nosed, street-tough New Yorker would be a cab driver or deli owner -- certainly not a nationally renowned collegiate swimmer.
Demonstrating the talent and depth of the squad, the Virginia women's basktball team, with four benched players, defeated the Hungarian Zala Volan-ZTE 63-48 in last night's exhibition game at U-Hall. The Cavaliers, ranked No.
So it begins. After a wait of what might have seemed like years for the Virginia men's basketball team, it is finally time to shove off last year's late-season collapse and begin anew, as they are set to begin their exhibition season Sunday against Big Apple Basketball. Many spectators will recognize this year's team, since there is a good chance that at least three players who were ineligible for last year's team will be on the court when the season begins Sunday at 3 p.m. After four weeks of banging against teammates in practice, the Cavaliers are ready to put the hurt on opponents for the first time since March, when they ended the season with three straight losses. "It will be good to get back on the floor," coach Pete Gillen said.
Coming off their third place finish at the ACC Championships, the men's and women's cross-country teams are preparing to head to the NCAA regional championships next weekend. Before the regional meet, however, comes the Cavalier Open, which takes place this Saturday in Charlottesville.
Men's golf finishes fifth at Hawaii Fall Classic The Virginia men's golf team, the defending champion of the Hawaii Fall Classic, finished fifth in this year's competition that ended Tuesday. UNLV won the team championship with a seven-under 857, followed by Tennessee with a three-under 861.
When I was younger, my father used to take me to the railroad, and place a penny on the train track.
Defying expectations is something the Virginia women's basketball team is quite familiar with. Picked last year to finish seventh in the ACC, the Cavaliers ended up with a 17-13 overall record (9-7 ACC) and an NCAA tournament berth. This season, the prognosticators have given the Cavaliers more respect.
Considering everything she's done for the team, the U.Va. field hockey program might want to send Jess Coleman a bouquet of roses to thank her.
This weekend, having completed its regular season, the No. 18 Virginia women's soccer team (11-5-2, 4-3 ACC) travels to Tallahassee, Fla.
Amstutz named ACC performer of the week Virginia junior Diver Pete Amstutz was named the ACC men's swimming and diving performer of the week after he swept the one and three-meter diving contests against Duke Saturday.
With a constant rain falling through the bright lights at Klöckner Stadium, the Virginia Cavaliers shutout the Pittsburgh Panthers, 2-0, extending its home winning streak to 11 games. Virginia (12-5, 3-3 ACC) kept up a strong offensive pressure throughout the game dominating the Panthers (8-9-1, 2-7-1 Big East) almost the entire 90 minutes. The Cavaliers were without their leading scorer, junior forward Alecko Eskandarian, but it did not seem to make a difference. "Alecko has been playing great all season," senior forward Ryan Gibbs said.
At about 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, the future of Virginia's football season looked ominous. The 0-2 Cavaliers, fresh off a 40-19 shellacking at the hands of Florida State were trailing No.
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As the Virginia football team (6-3) returns to the field after a week-long break, the focus is on preparing for Saturday's matchup with No.
Women's club tennis remains undefeated The Virginia women's club tennis team continued its undefeated season Saturday at Snyder Tennis Center with a 7-2 win over William & Mary.
As "midterm season" around Grounds finally comes to an end, the teams of the National Football League just completed Week 9 of their 17-week season.
The Virginia men's soccer team will lace its cleats to play Pittsburgh tonight at 7 in Klöckner Stadium without the nation's leading scorer.
