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When senior Gretchen Walsh dove into the pool for her final collegiate event March 22, it was business as usual. From the starting horn to the finish line, she and her Cavaliers blazed their way to a national title in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Walsh anchored the final leg and led Virginia to finish a full 2.62 seconds ahead of second place Tennessee.
Virginia's men's golfers missed their initial attempt at a celebratory water dump onto their coach. The second time, they found their mark, unloading the entire cooler onto his head.
The lacrosse stick’s end dangled from its other three quarters. How, precisely, it had reached its snapped state seemed unclear. The act had been hidden by a torrent of blue jerseys and their ensuing dog pile.
To date, Virginia’s performance in the 2025 season has not met the expectations that being ranked No. 2 in the preseason brought. The team has been wildly inconsistent, and has spent the last several weeks unranked. The question then becomes, who are the real Cavaliers? Is this team the one that had hopes of a third straight College World Series or the team that fails to maintain a streak of success?
The ACC Championships will go down as a tournament filled with emotional highs and dramatic lows for No. 5 seed Virginia. The Cavaliers (20-7, 9-4 ACC) weathered their second-round and quarterfinal matches and then knocked off No. 1 Wake Forest, ending the nation’s best team’s 34-match unbeaten streak. But their run ended in the championship match, against No. 3 seed Stanford, with a tight match suddenly flipping away from Virginia.
The No. 7 Virginia women’s tennis team came into Sunday’s ACC Championship final with confidence, propelled by momentum from a strong semifinal win over No. 4 Duke and having already beaten No. 8 North Carolina twice this season. But in the biggest match of the year so far, the fourth-seeded Cavaliers (20-5, 10-2 ACC) could not replicate that magic, falling 4-0 to the second-seeded Tar Heels (23-4, 11-1 ACC) in a rematch of last year’s final at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
With a spot in the ACC final on the line, No. 4 seed Virginia women’s tennis delivered a composed performance to take down No. 1 seed Duke 4-2 in the semifinals of the ACC Championship Saturday morning at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
Through either entrance into the Aquatic & Fitness Center, one of the first things gym-goers are greeted by is the display celebrating Virginia swimming and diving’s ACC, NCAA and Olympic champions. Lining the entrance to the pool, it is a tribute to the dynasty that Virginia’s women’s swim team has created — after all, they are just one of three swimming teams in NCAA history to have won five consecutive national championships.
For most Virginia student-athletes, balancing academics and varsity sports is enough to fill a calendar. But for Shelby Bavin, a junior coxswain on the women's rowing team, life includes one more high-stakes commitment — firefighting.
Virginia baseball as it exists today would be nowhere near the same without Coach Brian O’Connor. Before his arrival, the Cavaliers had only won the ACC twice in program history. What’s more, they had never been to the College World Series and had only reached the NCAA Tournament three times.
Ryan Odom stands close to the wall. Khakis. A V-Sabre quarter-zip. He is a khaki-and-quarter-zip guy this time of year, more of a joggers-and-sweatshirt guy come basketball season. In this video, Odom begins, after a second, to speak. What he’s saying is not the important part.
No. 13 Virginia rowing kicked off its spring season with gusto in the Big Ten-ACC Dual this weekend at Griggs Reservoir in Columbus, Ohio. The Cavaliers walked away with five wins in their contests against No. 10 Michigan and No. 15 Ohio State.
Midway through conference play, Virginia men’s lacrosse is on a trajectory toward its worst season in Coach Lars Tiffany’s nine seasons at the helm. At 5-6 and 0-2 in the ACC, it is the program’s worst record through 11 games since an identical mark by the 2013 team, four years before Tiffany’s arrival.
Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 30 and will be updated throughout the women’s basketball offseason.
Virginia’s women’s lacrosse team has, so far, experienced a highly difficult schedule — the ACC itself currently features five teams who sit within the top 10 of the NCAA’s rankings. The Cavaliers are one of them, holding strong at No. 9 with a 8-4 record. However, three of those losses were against ACC opponents which has relegated Virginia to seventh place in the conference standings. In order to earn a top postseason seed, a triumphant push is needed.
Virginia women’s swim cemented itself as one of the greatest dynasties in sports Saturday.
This weekend, the NCAA Championships went down in Philadelphia, with collegiate wrestlers from programs across the country coming together to compete for individual and team national titles.
Second-year College student Ari Randers-Pehrson first began speedcubing — competitively racing to solve combination puzzles, like the Rubik’s Cube — eight years ago. Now, he impressively ranks 18th in the world for the fastest WCA average solve of a 4x4 Cube. While he has accumulated quite the trophy collection throughout his speedcubing career, it is the community he found in World Cube Association competitions that has kept him in the hobby.
California Coach Mark Madsen sat there and stuttered. His answer had started with a resounding declaration, repeated twice for emphasis — “we are going to have great success here,” he said. But now he had run aground on a thorny sentence.
As the saying goes, three things in life are inevitable — death, taxes and Bowerman finalist junior Gary Martin delivering a clutch performance on the track. His heroics as anchor helped lift Virginia men’s Distance Medley Relay — along with graduate Wes Porter, senior Alex Sherman and graduate Conor Murphy — to the Cavaliers’ first ever NCAA title in the event. The electric showdown headlined a series of otherwise solid performances for Virginia.