The Virginia baseball team shut out Bucknell yesterday, 8-0, and moved to 3-0 on the season after beating the Bison twice Saturday. Virginia senior Dan Street, a first-team All-ACC pitcher, and sophomore reliever Joe Koshansky combined to allow just three Bucknell hits.
This weekend was filled with emotions over the honoring of Debbie Ryan and her 25th anniversary as head coach of the Virginia women's basketball team.
Winston-Salem, N.C. - Many figured that after coming off of a tough, last second, double overtime loss to Clemson earlier in the week, the Demon Deacons would have a tough time getting psyched up for the men's basketball game against Virginia.
The day belonged to Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan. And that statement became even more true when Charlottesville Mayor Blake Caravati literally proclaimed it "Debbie Ryan Day" during pregame festivities that honored Ryan for her 25 years of service to the University as head women's basketball coach. It would be remiss not to write about Ryan today, when she truly coached a victory out of her young Cavalier squad - it was the 559th such victory of her illustrious career. Ryan truly is a master of coaching, one of the most over-criticized and under-appreciated vocations.
Yesterday was Valentine's Day, and the Virginia women's bas-ketball team definitely has been playing with a lot of heart lately.
Winter may not officially end for another month, but the spring season for the Virginia softball team gets underway this weekend.
The Virginia football team will host Colorado State Thursday, Aug. 22 in the second annual Jim Thorpe Classic.
With the 2001 indoor track regular season completed, Coach Randy Bungard's track and field teams travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., for the ACC Indoor Championships Feb.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Some streaks endure by pure chance. Other times a streak lasts because of pure dominance.
When the Virginia men's basketball team enters Joel Coliseum Sunday, the Cavaliers will attempt to accomplish a feat that a Virginia team has not pulled off in nearly two years: beat a ranked team on their home court. No.
With only four games remaining until the conference tournament, the Virginia women's basketball team travels to Winston-Salem, NC, to play ACC rival Wake Forest (10-13, 4-9 ACC) tonight at 7 p.m. Sitting on a 13-10 overall record and 6-6 conference mark, the Cavaliers desperately need a win to keep alive hopes of making a 19th consecutive NCAA tournament. "We want to finish off the ACC strongly," sophomore guard Anna Prillaman said.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches picked Virginia junior guard Roger Mason Jr.
I love the Winter Olympics. No, that was not a typo. I really love the Winter Olympics. The Summer Games are great, but Salt Lake City is the place to be if you want to see sports at its finest.
Few coaches reach the status of a "living legend" while still active in their field, but Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan is one such giant.
Former Virginia swimmer Ed Moses is pretty pleased with his life right now. With a solid GPA at one the country's most prestigious universities, an assistant coaching position on the up-and-coming Cavalier swim squad and a solid sense of stability with friends and family, Moses appears to have succeeded at finding the balance between academics, extracurriculars and fun for which most undergraduates strive. But Moses' undergraduate life has been anything but typical.
The No. 15 Virginia men's basketball team narrowly escaped North Carolina at University Hall last night. "We played with fire and almost got burned," Virginia coach Pete Gillen said. Luckily for Virginia, freshman point guard Keith Jenifer was able to douse the flames. With little over a minute left Virginia was up by only two.
For those of us who have any familiarity with women's college basketball, we all know who Debbie Ryan is.
Sophomore Luke Anderson was named ACC men's swimmer of the week for the third time this season for his performance against Maryland on Saturday.
F or the first five minutes and 40 seconds of last night's win against North Carolina, Virginia looked like they deserved the No.
Virginia's Travis Watson received the ACC player of the week award as a result of strong play in games with N.C.
