Virginia to start season at home
The cross country season starts Friday with the Lou Onesty Open, the first of three meets Virginia will host this year at Panorama Farms.
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The cross country season starts Friday with the Lou Onesty Open, the first of three meets Virginia will host this year at Panorama Farms.
From the season-opener until the NCAA regionals, then-junior Emil Heineking was the first runner to cross the finish line in every single ACC race last year.
Proven veterans? Check. Stacked recruiting class? Check. An established coach with a documented history of success? Check and check. Indeed, the stars seem to be aligning for the Virginia cross country program, and this could be the year when it makes the significant leap from very good to elite.
Last weekend, the Virginia track and field teams participated in the Penn Relays - a prestigious competition with more than 116 years of history. And by the time the Cavaliers left the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field, they had made a mark in the program's own history.
The premier event of the outdoor track and field season has arrived.
Considering the results of last weekend's ACC Championships at Clemson, many a casual Virginia track and field fan might conclude the squads are slipping. Both the men and women dropped from last year's final standings, finishing in third and eighth, respectively - hardly on par with 2009's tied first and fourth.
The Virginia track and field teams competed in the ACC Outdoor Championships this weekend in Clemson, S.C. Both squads failed to perform as well as last year, as the men finished in third place behind Florida State and Virginia Tech after taking home a portion of the title last spring, and the women dropped from fourth to eighth, far behind the champion Clemson.
The Cavaliers will enjoy the comforts of home this weekend as they host the Lou Onesty Invitational at Lannigan Field. Not only is this a rare opportunity for the athletes to compete in front of a local crowd, but it is also their final tune-up before the ACC Championships.
As a warm-up meet for the upcoming ACC Championship in three weeks, the Virginia track and field team will travel to North Carolina this weekend to compete in the Raleigh Relays. Although the race marks only the second outdoor meet of the season for the Cavaliers, the competition - which will feature several conference opponents - is expected to be steep.
Robby Andrews won the NCAA championship in the 800-meter at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. this past weekend. With this victory, Andrews now is the second Virginia athlete ever to win an individual national title in the 800-meter. And by the way, he's only a freshman.
During senior guard Monica Wright's final game at John Paul Jones Arena, No. 18 Virginia defeated in-state rival Virginia Tech 55-46. Wright left the game with 28.1 seconds remaining and received a thunderous standing ovation from a raucous crowd of 6,264.
The No. 18 Cavaliers will travel to Durham, N.C. today to face the No. 6 Blue Devils. Virginia is riding a 16-game losing streak against Duke and has not won in Durham since 1997.
After clawing their way to two straight overtime victories, the No. 18 Cavaliers demolished Longwood 81-40 last night at John Paul Jones Arena. Virginia played its starters sparingly after enduring a double-overtime marathon against North Carolina the previous night but still had no trouble improving to 8-4 all-time against Longwood.
The No. 21 Virginia women's basketball team will look for a bit of breathing room in the tightly-packed ACC when it travels to Coral Gables to take on conference foe Miami tonight.
In a game that was never really in doubt beyond the first 10 minutes, the No. 24 Virginia Cavaliers throttled the Clemson Tigers Thursday night 82-60. As heavy snow tracked toward Charlottesville, a crowd of 2,920 gathered at John Paul Jones Arena to watch the team earn its fifth win, during which senior guard Monica Wright passed Ivory Latta for fifth on the ACC all-time scoring list.
In front of 11,895 raucous fans - the largest crowd ever for a women's basketball game at John Paul Jones Arena - No. 12 Virginia suffered its first loss of the season, falling to No. 6 Tennessee, 77-63.
On her 20th birthday, sophomore forward Chelsea Shine reaped the rewards of her hard work, as No. 12 Virginia crushed previously unbeaten USC Upstate, 110-63, at John Paul Jones Arena. The Cavaliers will face a much stiffer test Sunday when No. 6 Tennessee comes to town, but last night, the Cavaliers lived in the moment.
The Virginia field hockey team climbed to new heights this weekend at Turf Field. After shutting out Richmond 3-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday, the Cavaliers advanced to the NCAA national semifinals for the third time in school history by edging Michigan State 3-2 in overtime yesterday.
As the cross country season draws to a close, the Virginia men's and women's teams will travel to Louisville, Ky., to compete in the NCAA Southeast Regional this Saturday. The top two finishing teams in each race will receive automatic bids to the NCAA Championships held Nov. 23.
Although the men's and women's cross country teams have jumped out to impressive starts to their seasons, neither can afford to let complacency set in as they travel to Cary, N.C. this weekend to compete in the ACC Championships.