The Virginia women’s golf team came away from this weekend's Mason Rudolph Championship in Nashville, TN with a fourth place finish behind a record-setting performance from senior Lauren Coughlin, securing the team’s second straight top-five finish to start the fall season.
Women created 36.1% of published media in the United States in 2014, according to the year’s Women’s Media Center’s “Status of Women in the US Media Report”. Only 14.6 percent of those who work in the American sports media are women.
Competing at Bender Arena in the nation’s capital, the Virginia volleyball team posted a trio of victories Friday and Saturday at the American University Classic.
Beating Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond is never an easy task, and Monday night’s commonwealth clash with the Rams was no different.
The sixth-ranked Cavaliers men’s soccer team battled one of its toughest opponents thus far in the team’s ACC home opener in front of a packed crowd at Klöckner stadium on Friday night.
Donning its home whites, the Virginia women’s soccer team came out flying against Syracuse (4-5-1) on a picturesque Sunday in Charlottesville.
Now three games into the season, the Cavaliers (1-2) remain without solutions in the team’s defensive deficiencies. The defense needs to stiffen up for the team to put W’s in the column.
After facing two consecutive top-15 opponents in UCLA and Notre Dame, Saturday’s contest against William & Mary was supposed to be easy.
The skinny on this weekend’s games for women’s soccer, volleyball, women’s tennis, women’s golf and field hockey.
Fourth-year Engineering student Mike Bunting was one of nearly 60,000 fans at Scott Stadium Saturday, when the Virginia football team suffered a last-minute defeat against FBS powerhouse Notre Dame.
Friday night’s clash will be the 72nd meeting of the two teams since 1949, with the Cavaliers owning a 46-17-8 series record. However, beating this year’s NC State team will not be an easy task.
“[William & Mary] will be well‑coached, excited about this opportunity,” Virginia coach Mike London said. “They won't be intimidated coming up and playing in Charlottesville.”
Upon the graduation of former Cavalier running back Kevin Parks and the dawn of the 2015 Virginia football season, junior running back Taquan Mizzell was named the starter for the Cavaliers.
When James Madison arrived in Charlottesville Tuesday, the frustration over last season’s nail-biting 2-1 defeat was palpable.
The Virginia Women’s Golf team opened their fall season this past weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, where they placed third at the annual Cougar Classic.
Virginia’s men’s golf team placed fifth in their first tournament of the fall season this past weekend, shooting 32-over par 896 at the Northern Intercollegiate tournament in Sugar Grove, Ill.
The Virginia volleyball team posted a four-set victory over Troy Saturday afternoon at the Crimson-White Tournament in Tuscaloosa, Al. But the win came after a five-set defeat against Saint Louis the night before, and the Cavaliers took another loss Saturday night against Alabama.
The sixth-ranked Virginia field hockey team disposed of its third ranked opponent of the season and took care of business against unranked Miami, OH to improve to 5-0. The Cavaliers traveled to No. 11 Louisville Friday and came out victorious by a score of 4-3, then edged the RedHawks, 1-0, Sunday.
After just three days off following Friday’s game, the Cavaliers (2-0-2, 0-0-1 ACC) host in-state rival James Madison (0-3-1, 0-0 CAA) – a team that was leading at Klöckner stadium last season until an 89th minute Virginia equalizer sent the game to overtime.
In their first ACC matchup of the 2015 season, the fifth-ranked Virginia Cavaliers men’s soccer team battled for 110 minutes in Durham, NC to draw a stingy Duke Blue Devils team in two overtimes and remain unbeaten.
