Crafting the ‘perfect’ tennis player with Coach Sara O’Leary
By Thomas Baxter | October 8, 2025But were O’Leary to get to build that player instead of choosing just one, whose skills would her perfect player have?
But were O’Leary to get to build that player instead of choosing just one, whose skills would her perfect player have?
The team enters its 50th season ranked No. 1 in Division I-AA, competing in a new league, designed for programs in similar situations.
With a forced fumble, a redzone interception, a missed kick and an overtime field goal, the Cavaliers took down the No. 8 team in the country — here’s how they did it.
“First thing I’m thinking is, oh my god, we did it,” fourth-year College student Joey Burch said. “The second thing I’m thinking is, wow, this goalpost has to come down.”
“[Playing with passion and precision is] something [Elliott] talks about a lot,” Josey said. “You have to play with a lot of aggressiveness, but if you don't play with details, you're not going to win.”
Virginia Athletics lost $50,000 yesterday. But no one is really complaining.
"You gotta remember, the guy's still a first year."
“On the men’s side… the freshmen men are arguably the best class in NCAA history,” DeSorbo said in an interview with The Cavalier Daily. “And then on the women’s side, it’s a new identity, it’s different, because it’s the first time in six years we haven’t had a Douglass or a Walsh.”
The stakes are very clear — if Virginia beats the Seminoles on primetime national television, it will have a very strong chance of being ranked for the first time since 2021.
It appears that his team has been doing a lot of, well, doing.
She knows now that she wants to try to play professionally.
"'All you can do is prepare to show the world the gift that he has blessed you with.’ And I think that is the best thing I've ever heard, and it completely wipes away all that stress and anxiety.”
Virginia takes on Stanford Saturday, with a flaming-hot offense.
On U.Va. Strong Day, Virginia's win was about more than football.
Gretchen Walsh, Athletic Director Carla Williams and three more.
If Pedroso were to, just for a day, play the role of college tennis’s Doctor Frankenstein, exactly what would he build?
"It's made a big difference."
"He's probably the hardest-working guy on the team right now," Dietrich said.
Coach George Gelnovatch compared this team to his 2019 squad.
Traits like discipline and maturity are often associated with upperclassmen, as veterans have generally played more downs and dealt with more adversity.