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Roy Horovitz spent most of his freshman season dying to play.
Uncertainty has been a key theme for Virginia volleyball as it pushed through the preseason. With its typical playing facility under renovation, five starters graduating after last season and three transfers entering the scene, Cavalier fans have sat wondering about the 2025 season despite last year’s history-making run to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.
Graduate wide receiver Cam Ross “has the sauce,” according to graduate running back J’Mari Taylor.
A quarter-century of NCAA women’s volleyball has passed since Virginia last made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Last season, Coach Shannon Wells and the Cavaliers made progress toward changing that statistic after receiving a bid to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship, giving Virginia just its third postseason appearance in program history.
Acclimating to college soccer is a difficult task, especially within the ACC, the best conference in the nation. Freshman forward Addison Halpern is going through that struggle right now.
With great resources come great expectations. That has been the most relevant theme for Virginia football over the past few years.
As a whole, linebackers on the 2024 Virginia football team accounted for two of the team’s top three leaders in tackles, as well as two of the top five in tackles for loss. Fortunately, all of the unit’s contributors are back for 2025 and will play a pivotal role in turning around a defense that finished in the bottom five in the ACC last season in yards and points per game allowed.
The 2025-26 school year is upon us, and the minivans and rented U-Hauls have departed Alderman Road and Jefferson Park Avenue. Whether this fall will be your first at the University or your last, one of the best ways to make the most of your time is by supporting the Cavaliers across multiple sports.
Virginia women’s soccer is a proud program, one that has seen great success in the arduous ACC. But even after routinely taking residence in the NCAA Tournament bracket, one fact looms large — this program has never won a national championship.
Few high school sports have a death toll. Of course, freak incidents happen — a wayward skate, or a bad tackle. But there is only one high school sport whose athletes are at risk well before any practice or game begins. That sport is wrestling.
“Practice makes perfect.” Odds are, everyone has heard those words at some point in their life. No matter the subject, practice is the first step on the path to mastery. After all, how are you supposed to achieve greatness if you don’t have the opportunity to improve?
The instructions were simple. Do not kill the president.
During a historic four years as a swimmer for the Cavaliers, Class of 2025 alumna Gretchen Walsh etched her name into program history as a legend. Over the past three weeks, Walsh has received overwhelming national recognition for these athletic and academic achievements.
Former Athletic Director Craig Littlepage is a Virginia legend.
A perennial NCAA powerhouse, Virginia field hockey routinely attracts players not only from all over the country, but also the world. Yet, despite representing a state school that pledges to maintain a two-thirds ratio of Virginians, the program’s in-state recruitment numbers have waned in the last few years — right now, there is just one Virginian on the team. But high school junior Brayden Johnston — the Cavaliers’ new recruit in the class of 2027 — just changed that.
At Virginia, game days are more than just a tradition — they are a defining part of student life. Whether it is singing The Good Ol’ Song after a touchdown at Scott Stadium, cheering in unison at John Paul Jones Arena or watching a top-ranked team compete under the lights at Klöckner Stadium, sports games bring the community together.
On Memorial Day weekend, Walker Wallace rejoiced as the final whistle sounded and he became a national champion with the Cornell lacrosse team. And then he decided to transfer to a program that has never even come close to winning a national championship.
Coach Bowen Sargent’s lengthy tenure at the helm of Virginia’s men’s golf program has been decorated with consistent success. The program has reached an NCAA Regional for 17 straight seasons, achieved the nation’s No. 1 ranking multiple times and put three players on the PGA Tour. But of all his 21 seasons with Virginia, this one was his most accomplished by a long shot.
Sunday night, Coach Brian O’Connor was named the head coach at Mississippi State as confirmed through a team message shared with The Cavalier Daily. It was, to many, a shocking move. Many couldn’t help but think of the fact that Virginia recently lost another legendary coach, Tony Bennett of men’s basketball, just eight months ago to retirement.
This past weekend, Virginia rowing capped off a season of transformation and perseverance with a 10th place finish at the NCAA Rowing Championships on Lake Mercer, N.J. In their first NCAA appearance under Coach Wesley Ng, the Cavaliers showed both strength and grit, proving they could hold their own on the national stage and finishing three spots higher than their 13th-place finish from the year before.