Talk to Deanna Zwarich for a minute and you'll get a feeling of what it's like to be a student-athlete.
Some of you may be angry with Darryl Strawberry. You're bitter that he threw away a Hall of Fame career in the sport you grew up on, wasting his life on cocaine and hookers, ducking child support payments and beating his wife.
The Virginia women's basketball team overcame what its coach termed "lazy" play to post an 86-72 victory over Uralmash, a Russian team, in its exhibition finale last night at University Hall. "I was disappointed with the defensive play in the second half," Cavalier coach Debbie Ryan said.
Wally Walker, one of the greatest players in Virginia basketball history, has been selected by the NCAA Honors Committee to receive a NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. Walker, a University Board of Visitors member, will be recognized along with six other recipients at the honors dinner Jan.
Ask most casual college football fans about Georgia Tech football and they are bound to talk about Joe Hamilton, the record-setting quarterback who graduated this spring.
Virginia senior middle blocker Deanna Zwarich was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for her stellar play against Clemson Friday and Georgia Tech Saturday. Zwarich led Virginia to a 3-0 (15-7, 16-14, 15-5) win over Clemson and a come-from-behind 3-2 (10-15, 8-15, 15-2, 15-10, 15-12) victory over Georgia Tech. Zwarich's 22 kills against moved her to 500 kills on the season and gave her Virginia's single season kills record.
This isn't your father's college football anymore. It's your trigonometry teacher's. Sadly, the great gridiron game on which I was reared and from which arrived my childhood heroes now holds decimal points and derivatives more dear than the pride and pageantry that established it as America's lifeblood. Blaming the Bowl Championship Series and its convoluted ranking formula is always the trendy thing to do, but college football's obsession with the insignificant and renunciation of the important began eons before the BCS cronies decided to confuse us all. It all started with the polls. First, God bless us, we had but one, the AP.
The 2000-01 Virginia wrestling season kicked off Sunday night with the annual Blue-Orange intra-squad exhibition meet.
Here's a line you might have read while sifting through coverage of Virginia football: Antwoine Womack is quietly leading the ACC in rushing this season. But it's not entirely true.
The Virginia women's volleyball team picked up a pair of conference wins this weekend, defeating ACC powerhouse Georgia Tech 3-2 Saturday night and sweeping Clemson 3-0 Friday at University Hall. Senior co-captain Deanna Zwarich and freshman Shannon Boyle led the Cavaliers (15-12, 8-6 ACC) on a furious comeback against the conference-leading Yellow Jackets.
Three days after getting bounced from the ACC Tournament in the first round, the Virginia women's soccer team had its collective feelings soothed by receiving one of 16 first-round byes in this week's NCAA Tournament. The No.
Hopes were high for both the Virginia and Maryland men's soccer teams as they entered Klockner Stadium for their regular season finale Friday night.
Going into Saturday's exhibition opener against the London Leopards, the Virginia men's basketball team seemed ready to start off the new season with a bang.
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-The Virginia field hockey team's dramatic run to the finals of the ACC Tournament ended in disappointing fashion yesterday as the Cavaliers suffered a resounding 3-0 loss to defending NCAA champion Maryland at the Athletic Turf Field in College Park. The loss followed a thrilling 2-1 Cavalier victory Friday night against top-seeded North Carolina, the nation's No.
DURHAM, N.C.-In stomach-churning, heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat fashion, the Virginia women's soccer team lost to Duke in a penalty kick shootout in the first round of the ACC Tournament last night at the Blue Devils' Koskinen Stadium. The No.
The Virginia men's basketball team begins its exhibition season tomorrow at 2 p.m. when it takes on the London Leopards at University Hall.
The Virginia men's soccer team looks to end the regular season with a win tonight against ACC rival Maryland.
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-The Virginia field hockey team survived a furious onslaught and disastrous late goal by Duke yesterday to beat the Blue Devils in overtime, 2-1, in the first round of the ACC Tournament in College Park, Md. The fourth-seeded Cavaliers (13-6) continue play today when they face off against top seed North Carolina, ranked No.
For the first time, the outcome of the women's soccer ACC Tournament is not quite predictable. There were so many surprise last-minute wins and losses over the course of the regular season, and the teams are so evenly matched that four tied for second place in the conference.
Last weekend, the Virginia field hockey team ended its regular season with a bang. The Cavaliers notched two hard-fought victories on the road in an overtime win against Duke and a come-from-behind triumph against Yale. But things are far from over. In fact, the Cavaliers have completed only one piece of a three-part puzzle, according to coach Jessica Wilk. "The entire season is actually three different seasons," she said, "the regular season, the ACC Tournament, and the NCAA Tournament.
