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.
Now, I love beating the Hokies just as much as the next person, but in my four years at the University I’ve noticed that, to most students, Virginia Tech seems to be our only rival. What I want to know is: why not UNC?
Former Virginia wing Justin Anderson was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2015 NBA Draft Thursday night.
The Virginia baseball team captured its maiden national championship Wednesday night in Omaha with a 4-2 win against Vanderbilt at TD Ameritrade Park.
The Virginia baseball team defeated Vanderbilt by a 3-0 final score Tuesday night in Omaha, evening the College World Series Finals at one game apiece.
Monday night in Omaha, Virginia opposed Florida in the College World Series — and emphatically rose to the occasion.
No. 14 Virginia baseball defeated No. 11 Arkansas, 5-3, Saturday in the opening game of the College World Series. Senior third baseman Kenny Towns singled home sophomore Daniel Pinero to break a 3-3 deadlock in the 8th inning.
Virginia took a long, strange trip filled with ups and a plethora of downs to the 2015 College World Series. Still, even in an uncommonly difficult season, the end result of postseason success has not changed.
