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The 2025 season saw Virginia softball repeat much of its 2024 season. The Cavaliers (38-19, 14-10 ACC) broke team and individual offensive records, won a game in the ACC Championship and made the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year.
Virginia not only got its first ever win in NCAA Championship match play this week — it also got its second, giving it a chance to win a national title Wednesday. On the way there, the Cavaliers not only defeated the Florida team that beat them two years ago on the way to a national title, but also defeated the Auburn team that beat them last season on the way to its own national title.
Scott Stadium will host the 2026 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships May 23-25, the athletic department announced Saturday. The Division I semifinals will take place May 23 and the Division II and III finals May 24. The Division I final will be held May 25.
In a match that felt like the swinging back and forth of a pendulum, one that came down to the final set on the final court, No. 7 seed Virginia men’s tennis saw its season end in heartbreak Friday, falling 4-3 to No. 2 seed TCU (26-3, 8-0 Big 12) in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas.
The Virginia men’s golf team teed off at the 2025 NCAA Reno Regional this week, looking to finish in the top five of the 14-team field and qualify for a third straight NCAA Championship. The event, held at the Montreux Golf & Country Club in Reno, Nev., ended Wednesday. Virginia finished second at 11-under par, four strokes behind first-place BYU, tied for its best performance in a regional in program history.
The No. 7 Virginia women’s tennis team saw its promising season come to a disappointing end Friday afternoon in a 4-0 loss to No. 10 Tennessee in the NCAA Championship Round of 16. At the Boar’s Head Resort in Charlottesville, in a rematch of a February meeting at ITA Indoors that Virginia won 4-2, the No. 10 Lady Vols turned the tables with a dominant performance to advance to the quarterfinals.
Junior Måns Dahlberg always plays his best tennis later in the year. That has been a pattern since he arrived at Virginia — he has slow starts to the season through January, February and March but puts it all together in April and May.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.