Only five votes behind perennial stalwart and NCAA runner-up North Carolina, the Virginia women's soccer team was picked to finish second this season by ACC head coaches in a preseason poll.
The Cavaliers are coming off a second place finish in 2001, when they compiled an overall record of 17-4-2 and 4-2 in conference play.
Virginia, which lost to Santa Clara in the second round of the NCAA tournament last season, received 57 out of a possible 64 votes. Clemson followed North Carolina and Virginia with 41 points in the voting last week.
The Cavaliers will see a lot of returning players this year including All-Conference players Kelly Worden and Lindsay Gusick, who were pivotal stars in last year's NCAA tournament bid. Jessica Trainor, one of the league's brightest players as a freshman, also returns to round out the solid squad.
Virginia will kick off the season against St. Joseph's at Kl
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