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Tuesday evening, senior long stick midfielder Ben Wayer was drafted 23rd overall by the Philadelphia Waterdogs in the 2025 Premier Lacrosse League Draft, and senior midfielder Griffin Schutz was taken 31st overall by the California Redwoods.
In the four years before the Class of 2025 stepped on Grounds, Virginia’s big sports were dominant. Football had three winning or .500 seasons, men’s basketball had won the 2019 national title and men’s lacrosse had won two national titles. But since then, football has had just one winning season, men’s basketball has missed the NCAA Tournament twice and men’s lacrosse has come up ringless.
Nota de la editora: Este artículo fue escrito originalmente por Cora Schenburg el 18 de abril de 2025. Trabajamos para preservar el significado original en la traducción, pero no podemos garantizarlo.
Mother’s Day is a wonderful way to not only show appreciation to mother figures around the world and recognize their impactful role throughout various lives, but also to explore how mothers are portrayed across literature. Books have long captured the complexities of motherhood — especially the formative and occasionally fraught relationships between mothers and daughters.
The bracket and seeding for the ACC Championship was revealed Saturday, and Virginia softball earned the seventh seed, a three-spot drop from their position last season. Play will begin Wednesday in Brighton, Mass., with Virginia’s first game coming against No. 10 Louisville at 5 p.m.
Police responded to calls of shots fired at the Rotunda around 4:30 a.m. Monday, where they discovered a deceased male who appeared to have died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, according to University Spokesperson Bethanie Glover. The investigation is ongoing, and additional details are not available at this time.
The No. 7 seed Virginia men’s tennis team delivered a dominant opening weekend performance in the NCAA Championship. The Cavaliers (22-7, 9-4 ACC) stormed through their home regional at the Virginia Tennis Facility, dispatching Bucknell in the first round and Princeton in the second to punch their ticket to the Round of 16.
Fourth-Year Trustees flew high in a hot air balloon alongside a group of student donors last Friday to celebrate the Class of 2025 breaking the participation record for Class Giving. This was just one of a series of unique events for this year’s graduating class hosted by the Fourth-Year Trustees — the name given to the selected students who represent fourth-year students as part of Class Council.
For some students, the environment means more than just a hike in the woods. With the Environmental Science, Environmental Thought and Practice and Global Environments and Sustainability programs, students at the University are able to explore, discover and tackle environmental issues within their classes. Despite looking at the subject through different lenses, students in all three of these programs stress that now, more than ever, it is important to be learning about our environment.
Rewind to the spring of 2019. Ty Jerome and De’Andre Hunter put together a sensational March Madness run, their brilliance helping lead Virginia to its first ever men’s basketball national championship. Navigating through five tournament games and then a cinematic finale, the duo ingrained themselves into program history.
The No. 7 seed Virginia women’s tennis team dominated over the weekend at its home NCAA Championship regional, putting up two decisive wins to advance to the Round of 16. As the top seed, the Cavaliers took full advantage of home-court play at the Virginia Tennis Facility, sweeping Fairleigh Dickinson 4-0 Friday before taking Illinois 4-1 in a more tightly contested match Saturday. With a combination of veteran leadership and impactful performances from underclassmen, Virginia proved ready for the rest of the tournament.
The Board of Visitors voted Tuesday to formally rescind portions of its 2020 resolution that supported setting numerical goals for increasing racial diversity among students and faculty. The decision was made in closed session during a special meeting at the Boar’s Head Resort in Charlottesville and follows the Board’s March vote to dissolve the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Partnerships per President Donald Trump’s executive order.
Student Council representatives unanimously passed a resolution during Tuesday’s final general body meeting of the semester, approving the Summer 2025 budget of $67,642. The Council also passed a resolution approving 14 Contracted Independent Organizations and heard an announcement of the Student Council representatives who will be serving as chair pro-tempore, chair of community concerns and chair of internal affairs for the 2025-2026 term.
This week marks the beginning of voting for primary elections — statewide and local — that conclude June 17. On the ballot are statewide primaries for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. Local primaries will also take place for Charlottesville City Council and School Board, as well as Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and School Board positions.
As finals come and go and the days get longer and warmer, graduation is also fast approaching. In just two short weeks, the class of 2025 will finally process down the Lawn, balloons in hand and bittersweet smiles on their faces. Students will certainly be emotional during this time, and many will be searching for songs to weep to before concluding a beautiful four years at the University. As a fourth year myself, I can confirm that I have already shed quite a few tears thinking about the impending end of my time at this place I’ve been so lucky to call home these past few years. For this reason, I’ve compiled a perfect soundtrack for us to continue to shed these final tears to.
At the start of the season, Virginia men’s tennis was younger and less experienced than in years past — but also full of promise. Now, after two breezy NCAA Tournament wins and with a super regional date with No. 10 seed Arizona set for Saturday, that promise is beginning to materialize.
Dr. Daniel Flannery, Case Western Reserve University professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education — a non profit research center dedicated to social justice and violence prevention — presented his research and perspective on the impact on mental health and violence to University students Friday in Ridley Hall. Flannery discussed the cycle of violence from adolescence to adulthood, and the correlation between unrestricted gun access and mass violence.
The University is a prestigious place, home to dozens of world-renowned academic programs — and one of the nation’s top athletic departments. All students interact with the academic component, of course. As for sports, some students engage deeply with Virginia Athletics, while others seldom cross paths with it. In the middle of that spectrum, however, is a set of students who say that their time at the University strengthened their preexisting but smaller relationship with sports.
Nota de la editora: Este artículo fue escrito originalmente por Nicolas Biernacki el 26 de abril de 2025. Trabajamos para preservar el significado original en la traducción, pero no podemos garantizarlo.