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The Swim Club at the University placed first in the men’s category, second in the women’s category and first in overall scoring at the 2017 Collegiate Club Swimming & Diving National Championships early this past April. Rising senior Henrik Pohlmann led the Cavaliers, as he won four individual titles and three relay titles — scoring the most points of any individual participant.
Virginia Athletics Director Craig Littlepage announced Friday morning that women’s tennis coach Mark Guilbeau had resigned. The resignation marks the end of Guilbeau’s 12-year stint in Charlottesville.
When women’s soccer coach Steve Swanson was growing up, he was a multi-sport athlete. At his high school in Michigan, he played soccer, basketball and baseball. But Swanson enjoyed playing basketball especially.
As the 2016-17 year comes to an end, the Sports staff takes a look at some of the most memorable moments from this past year. From on-the-field to off-the-field moments, writers explain why their moment is the most impactful of them all.
Softball
After making it to the final round of the national competition for the second year in a row, the Virginia Mock Trial team won the national championship by defeating Yale University, the same college the team lost to in the final round last year. The competition was held in Los Angeles last weekend.
The truth is that before college I was never a fantastic writer. I know I’m not the most talented one now, either. There were certainly plenty of stronger writers that preceded me as sports editor and plenty more who will follow. I didn’t join The Cavalier Daily my first year because I was the best scribe, although hopefully I have improved over these past four years. I didn’t join because I wanted to report the news, although I hope I reported it well. And I didn’t join because of any real enthusiasm for journalism or the English language, although I know for a fact both of those came as I matured. I joined the The Cavalier Daily because there was nothing I was more passionate about than University sports. The newspaper gave me an opportunity to do something good with that passion.
Over the past few years, Virginia sports have been nothing short of phenomenal across the board. Since the beginning of the 2014-15 calendar year, the Cavaliers boast NCAA championships in men’s soccer, baseball, a runner-up finish in women’s soccer, two national championships in men’s tennis and numerous other accolades — including ACC Championships from women’s swimming and diving and rowing.
Virginia women’s lacrosse owned the ACC in the first decade of the 21st century. Winning a conference title in 2004 and then again in each season from 2006-08, the Cavaliers could not be stopped.
The Virginia men’s golf program has had many excellent teams throughout its history.
The start of the 2016 offseason could not have been more bizarre for the Virginia men’s lacrosse team.
This past Sunday, the Z Society commended men’s tennis coach Brian Boland for his 16 years of service at the University. It might seem odd for a secret society to commend a coach during a random conference match. However, because Boland only has two regular season matches remaining in Charlottesville — recently agreeing to become head of USTA Player Development — he has more than earned the honor.
Perhaps one of my favorite experiences of my first year at the University was covering the men’s and women’s track and field teams’ first home meet of the season.
The Virginia men’s tennis team won two big ACC home matches this weekend, first beating Virginia Tech, 7-0, Friday and beating North Carolina Sunday, 4-3.
Women’s Tennis
The Virginia women’s golf team finished in tenth place out of 18 teams this past weekend at the Bryan National Collegiate tournament in Browns Summit, N.C. The Cavaliers shot a combined three-round score of 897 (33-over).
Public perception of the Virginia football program is poor at the moment, and for good reason. The Cavaliers finished only 2-10 (1-7 ACC) this past season, the latest in a long string of disappointing seasons. However, many seem to feel the program is capable of being competitive with the best programs in the ACC conference.
Softball
Virginia men’s tennis coach Brian Boland announced Wednesday morning that he will be leaving the University to become the head of men’s tennis for USTA Player Development. Boland has won three national championships in the past four years with Virginia.
Admittedly, I am not the biggest tennis fan. I played a bit in high school, but never really cared to follow the collegiate or professional levels. The sport just isn’t that exciting to me and, subsequently, I haven’t really paid attention to Virginia’s teams.