Women’s soccer preps for West Coast swing
By Grant Gossage | September 2, 2015Nine months and one day removed from that 1-0 defeat at the 2014 College Cup final in Boca Raton, Fla., the now-No. 1 Cavaliers head out west with a 3-0 record in 2015.
Nine months and one day removed from that 1-0 defeat at the 2014 College Cup final in Boca Raton, Fla., the now-No. 1 Cavaliers head out west with a 3-0 record in 2015.
The second-ranked Virginia men’s soccer team hosts Tulsa Friday night looking to avenge a gut-wrenching 1-0 double-overtime loss from last season.
As painful as it may be to let go of London, UCLA reminds us why the choice is worth making.
The Virginia volleyball team served up a four-set victory against Loyola Marymount before coming up empty against Pac-12 power UCLA Friday and Saturday night in Los Angeles.
When people across the country think of the University of Virginia, they don’t just think of the outstanding academics or Thomas Jefferson.
Friday evening under a blue-grey sky, the Virginia women’s soccer team starters took the pitch, eager to defend their historic 33-game home-winning streak.
The No. 9 Virginia field hockey team started its season off strong this weekend, posting victories over Drexel and 7th-ranked Penn State.
On opening night in Charlottesville, the second-ranked Virginia men’s soccer team treated the raucous crowd of 4,620 fans to a show.
Virginia currently boasts the nation’s top-ranked 2016 recruiting class, according to 24/7 sports. Going by ESPN’s newly updated player database, the Cavaliers, along with Florida State, have the highest number of top-100 recruits with three. And per 24/7 sports, Virginia is undisputed as the only school with four top-100 players.
The Skinny on weekend games for Virginia’s field hockey, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball teams.
The second-ranked Cavaliers (1-0, 0-0 ACC) throttled UNC Wilmington 8-0 to kickoff their regular-season campaign before a rowdy home crowd.
With the defense facing a possible regression and a daunting schedule ahead of them, the Cavaliers’ offense must show progress if the program is to avoid another losing season.
Former Virginia coach Al Groh took a page from his decade-plus of NFL experience when he gave his 3-4 Cavalier defense the “Orange Crush” moniker — a throwback reference to the dominating Denver Bronco defense of the late 1970s.
With kickoff in Pasadena just two weeks out, let’s take some time to talk about expectations for the Virginia football team’s 2015 campaign.
Repeating as champions in any sport is a tall task, but this Cavaliers team looks as equipped as any to solidify its place in NCAA soccer lore.
The Virginia men’s basketball team was expected to face a year of rebuilding after the 2015-16 season. After all, key cogs such as guard Malcolm Brogdon, forwards Anthony Gill and Evan Nolte and center Mike Tobey will all be seniors this year.
After 24 years in the collegiate ranks, Virginia women’s soccer coach Steve Swanson knows storybook endings come only so often.
Three other organizations — Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball and Perfect Game — also honored O’Connor as their National Coach of the Year.
The World Cup ratings put an important but oft-ignored fact about sports into plain view: the popularity of a sporting event is inseparably entangled with group membership.
Virginia coaches have been hitting the recruiting trail hard trying to lock-up the next high school stud turned All-American. Here is a recap of the recruiting progress on the men’s basketball, football, men’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s soccer fronts.