Men's lacrosse falls against Duke, 15-8
The Virginia men’s lacrosse team (8-4, 0-4 ACC) dropped its seventh straight game against Duke (8-4, 1-3 ACC) Sunday, 15-8. The Cavaliers have now lost 15 of the last 16 games against their conference rival.
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The Virginia men’s lacrosse team (8-4, 0-4 ACC) dropped its seventh straight game against Duke (8-4, 1-3 ACC) Sunday, 15-8. The Cavaliers have now lost 15 of the last 16 games against their conference rival.
Offensively, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team had been clicking on all cylinders entering Friday night’s showdown against conference foe North Carolina.
Entering the 2015 season, some expected Virginia men’s lacrosse defense to struggle – not necessarily its offense. Sophomore goalie Matt Barrett was the sole returning starter from the 2014 defensive unit.
The Virginia men’s swimming and diving team wrapped up its season this past weekend at the NCAA Championship meet in Iowa City, Iowa. The Cavaliers, who only qualified senior diver JB Kolod and junior swimmer Yannick Kaeser for the meet, finished in 33rd place with eight points. It was the program’s lowest finish since 1987.
Although Saturday afternoon at Klöckner Stadium was not senior day for the Virginia men’s lacrosse team, it sure felt like it.
As a sports coach, succeeding a legend is one of the toughest jobs, especially in collegiate athletics. Some do it gracefully — see Jimbo Fisher taking over for Bobby Bowden at Florida State — while others seem to succumb to the pressure — think Lane Kiffin at USC after Pete Carroll’s departure.
As collegiate athletics become more and more competitive, it is rare to find many Division I athletes with less than a decade of experience in their sport. Virginia senior diver JB Kolod, a three-time reigning All-American, is the exception.
Entering Tuesday night, four of the Virginia men’s lacrosse team’s six wins on the season had been decided by one goal. But against VMI, the Cavaliers were finally able to roll, and they rolled big.
At the conclusion of Saturday’s events, the Virginia women’s swimming and diving team could finally take a collective sigh of relief — it had accomplished its goal to become the best team in program history.
For the second-straight year, the annual battle for the Doyle Smith Cup needed overtime to decide a victor. And once again, it was junior midfielder Greg Coholan who secured bragging rights for the Cavaliers.
Of Virginia’s 25 varsity athletic squads, few are as storied as the women’s swimming and diving team. In addition to its 12 ACC championships — seven of them consecutive — the program produces All-Americans by the boatload.
Senior JB Kolod and junior Becca Corbett stole the spotlight for the Virginia diving teams last week at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships in Buffalo, New York, punching tickets to their respective NCAA Championship meets in all three diving events. No other Cavalier diver qualified of the five men and four women competing.
The luck of the Irish got the best of the Virginia men’s lacrosse team this St. Patrick’s Day weekend. No. 4 Notre Dame (4-1, 1-0 ACC) used a 7-0 run to start the game and a subsequent 8-2 halftime lead to win its conference opener, 11-9, against the No. 7 Cavaliers (5-2, 0-2 ACC).
Coach Dom Starsia is in the midst of his 33rd season as a Division I lacrosse coach, and his 23rd at Virginia. So when the NCAA all-time winningest coach states he has never seen the turnover the Cavalier defense experienced going into this season, he is not kidding.
Dating back to 1984, Virginia has had a player selected in the NFL draft for 31 consecutive seasons. And in 2015 — with the likes of Eli Harold, Max Valles and Anthony Harris headlining a list of 18 draft eligible alumni — the streak is sure to continue to 32 years.
The annual Virginia-Syracuse tilt is known as one of collegiate lacrosse’s best rivalries — not only because of the two programs’ tradition, but also due to its exhilarating finishes. Sunday, however, provided anything but the latter.
After suffering suspensions, transfers and injuries, the No. 25 Virginia men’s swimming and diving team suspected its usual standard of excellence would be tough to meet in 2015. However, that knowledge did little to ease the pain of its ACC Championship Meet performance.
For over a decade stretching from 1999-2013, the words “Virginia men’s swimming and diving” and “ACC Champions” were essentially synonymous. The Cavaliers won 14 of the 15 conference championships during that span under former coach Mark Bernardino.
For the second consecutive week, snow showers dusted the field and the Virginia men’s lacrosse team shoveled out a win.
The Virginia women’s swimming and diving team entered the fourth and final day of the ACC Championships in second place — 22.5 points behind leader North Carolina. But the No. 8 Cavaliers (3-2, 1-1 ACC) used a dominating performance Saturday to surge past the rival Tar Heels and earn their eighth consecutive conference championship.