Moses sets pair of world records in breaststroke
Virginia breaststroker Ed Moses shattered a pair of world short course records this weekend at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, leading the Cavalier men to a 12th-place team finish.
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Virginia breaststroker Ed Moses shattered a pair of world short course records this weekend at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, leading the Cavalier men to a 12th-place team finish.
As the Virginia football team kicks off spring practice, coach George Welsh said he anticipates junior tailback Antwoine Womack will return for the fall season.
Over the course of the just-concluded season, the Cavalier perimeter defense developed into a more than formidable unit. In the last six games of the regular season, the opposition's primary backcourt threat averaged just 32 percent from the floor against Virginia. Led by 6-foot-5 ball hawks Adam Hall and Roger Mason Jr., the Cavs clamped down on the likes of Juan Dixon, Will Solomon, Joseph Forte and Robert O'Kelley.
Adam Hall certainly had a good look at it. With one crossover dribble, the sophomore swingman was airborne, squared to the hoop for the three-pointer that would tie the game at 112 and give the Virginia men yet another gasp of air as they struggled to shake the exhausted but resilient Georgetown Hoyas in triple overtime.
In Mark Bernardino's 22-year tenure as Virginia swimming and diving coach, he has taken the Cavalier program to an unprecedented level of national prominence. The men's and women's squads have become fixtures in the national top 10, and last spring, Shamek Pietucha became the first Cav to win an NCAA men's title. Now Virginia has its first women's champion.
As the Virginia women's basketball team awaits an NCAA Tournament seed, freshman forward Schuye LaRue can distract herself with her new ACC Rookie of the Year award.
Forecasting the 64 teams that will comprise the NCAA Tournament field is always a tricky proposition. The college basketball gurus weigh in with their first bracket predictions six weeks before the end of the regular season. The list gets amended, with teams tossed on and off the bubble at the drop of a hat - or the drop of a crucial in-conference game.
As Virginia senior Willie Dersch stood atop the University Hall scorer's table late Saturday night looking out over a throng of jubilant Cavalier fans basking in an 89-87 overtime win against No. 17 Maryland, he could not wipe the smile off his face.
As the ACC wraps up one of its more topsy-turvy men's basketball seasons in recent memory, the Conference Tournament bracket is beginning to come together. Now comes the hard part: figuring out which ACC teams will earn spots in the NCAA Tournament.
It took eight games, but the Virginia baseball team finally got its first win of the season.
Virginia redshirt junior quarterback David Rivers, who will not be back for the Cavaliers in the fall, is planning to transfer to a Division I-AA school for his final year of NCAA eligibility.
Virginia defensive back Chris Williams, a redshirt freshman who participated in more defensive plays than any other Cavalier last season, is academically ineligible and will not play football in the fall.
After two seasons as Virginia's starting placekicker, Todd Braverman will not be back for his final year of eligibility with the Cavaliers.
When Laura Gaworecki was deciding where she wanted to play collegiate soccer two years ago, she met plenty of coaches. She ultimately chose to come east from her hometown of Houston to play for April Heinrichs and the Cavaliers, but Stanford Coach Steve Swanson made a great impression as well.
This, evidently, is what 10-on-1 basketball looks like.
Senior leadership is a slippery term, one bandied about with careless abandon in the world of collegiate athletics. Yesterday at University Hall, Cavalier fourth-year point guard Renee Robinson ran a clinic on senior leadership.
Steve Swanson was named head coach of the Virginia women's soccer team yesterday, four weeks after former coach April Heinrichs left the Cavalier program to take the helm of the U.S. women's national team.
ATLANTA-Dining hall meals and eight o'clock classes have never sounded so good.
The Virginia wrestling team finished second in the seven-team American University Congressional Cup tournament Sunday, as five grapplers reached the finals in their respective weight classes.
The 63-21 beating the Cavaliers absorbed at the hands of Illinois a month ago in the Micronpc.com Bowl was still fresh in his mind, but Virginia football Coach George Welsh chose to focus on the future of the program in his press conference yesterday, a day after the Cavs inked 22 high school recruits.