Sports in Brief
October 25, 2001Virginia senior outside hitter Andrea Fischer broke the school service ace record against Georgetown on Tuesday with her 140th ace.
Virginia senior outside hitter Andrea Fischer broke the school service ace record against Georgetown on Tuesday with her 140th ace.
Faced with another mid-week contest against a visiting non-conference opponent, members of the Virginia men's soccer team decided to make things easy on themselves last night.
The Virginia women's soccer team looks to extend its winning streak to eight games and hand top-ranked North Carolina its first loss this season in a 7 p.m.
Jon Oliver, currently the Washington State University associate athletics director, was named the University's senior associate athletics director yesterday, and he will take over the position by Dec.
The Cavaliers' home football game against Wake Forest on Nov. 3 is slated to begin at noon at Scott Stadium.
Two weeks ago, Virginia sophomore quarterback Matt Schaub got the break he was looking for. He walked onto the field Oct.
Back in July, in a column I wrote during Major League Baseball's All-Star Break, I said that the Seattle Mariners would make it to the American League Championship Series.
Virginia football coach Al Groh said during his weekly press conference yesterday that he has been impressed with the competitive toughness that the interior of his defense has displayed this season.
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Gusick Tops ACC Lindsay Gusick, a freshman midfielder for the Virginia women's soccer team, was named ACC player of the week for exceptional performance last week.
Should the Virginia women's volleyball team ever feel complacent or desires to take a day off, it need only look within its ranks to regain its inspiration. According to her teammates and coaches, junior middle Simona Kuipers has earned classroom success and overcome freshman-year injuries with a determined work ethic.
After seeing early leads dissolve against North Carolina and Florida State last week, the Virginia women's volleyball team opened the new week with a new strategy: the comeback.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The No. 8 Virginia field hockey team (10-5, 1-2 ACC) headed to Wake Forest yesterday with hopes of once again knocking off a top-three team as it did in Maryland three weeks ago, but this time, it was not to be. The No.
DURHAM, N.C. - They needed overtime to do it, but the No. 13 Virginia women's soccer team (11-2, 3-1 ACC) dispatched ACC cellar-dweller Duke, 2-1, on Saturday night to take its seventh consecutive win. Virginia freshman Lindsay Gusick broke the 1-1 stalemate in the 99th minute of the game when she took a pass from sophomore Erin Englehardt and booted the ball past Duke goalkeeper Thora Helgadottir.
One's first reaction may be to blame the Virginia defense for losing Saturday's 43-7 blowout against No.
DURHAM, N.C. - A rowdy crowd was out to support the Duke men's soccer team Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.
In front of ESPN cameras and the largest crowd to attend a sporting event in the state of Virginia (61,383), the Virginia defense played bend-but-don't-break football for three quarters before being crushed by its own offense and the Florida State defense as Virginia (3-4, 2-3 ACC) lost, 43-7. The Virginia defense made several big plays in the first half, but the Cavaliers' offense could not capitalize on their opportunistic style.
The Virginia men's and women's swimming teams both successfully opened up their seasons on Friday against West Virginia at the Aquatic & Fitness Center.
Though the Virginia volleyball team has been held winless in its last seven games, recent progress in practice and on the court has the team upbeat as it hosts ACC rivals Florida State and N.C.
After easily shutting down Radford on Wednesday night, the Virginia field hockey team is taking a few days off from games before heading down to Winston-Salem for its match against Wake Forest on Sunday. The Cavaliers (10-4) must be prepared as a team for Sunday's game against the Demon Deacons (9-3), who currently are ranked No.