I once posed a question to my noble Twitter followers: “Which career path should I choose: sports journalist, television writer or fashion magazine contributor?!” One of my friends thoughtfully responded, “Sports journalism; there aren’t any Asian female sports journalists.”
After an impressive performance in this weekend’s Virginia Nike Soccer Classic, the second-ranked Virginia Cavaliers women’s soccer team is now 7-0 to start off the year for just the fourth time in team history.
In the first tournament of the season, the Virginia women’s golf team finished in a tie for fourth place Tuesday at the Cougar Classic.
As the celebration unfolded at Scott Stadium Saturday following the Virginia football team’s 23-21 victory against then-No.
On Friday against Virginia Tech, it took the Virginia men’s soccer team 74 minutes to score the game’s only goal.
The Virginia field hockey team won its ACC opener on Friday night, defeating Louisville 3-2 in double overtime. Sophomore striker Caleigh Foust scored the game-winning goal off a pass from freshman midfielder Tara Vittese 1:43 into the sudden-death second overtime, giving the No.
The second-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team hosted Tennesee, Hosftra, Duke and Richmond in the 27th Virginia Nike Soccer Classic this weekend, looking to build on its strong early-season play and extend its program-record 21-game home winning streak.
In the first match of ACC play Friday, the No. 15 Virginia men’s soccer team battled to a 1-0 win against a physical Virginia Tech squad, avenging a disappointing 2013 double overtime draw against the Hokies.
The Virginia volleyball team lost all three of its matches against Loyola, Youngstown State and host Northwestern at the Wildcat Challenge in Evanston, Ill. this past weekend after starting the season 6-0 for the first time since 2003.
Saturday in Karuizawa, Japan — a 14-hour plane jaunt from Charlottesville — Virginia senior Denny McCarthy led Team USA in scoring at the World Amateur Team Championships as the Americans captured the Eisenhower Trophy for a record 15th time.
This Saturday at Scott Stadium, the Virginia football team scored perhaps its most memorable and significant win of the past three seasons, pulling off a 23-21 upset against then-No. 21 Louisville before an announced crowd of 34,816 fans. The Cavaliers (2-1, 1-0 ACC), who received six votes in Sunday’s AP Top-25 Poll, trailed with less than four minutes left in the fourth quarter, but refused to lay down with the game on the line.
The Skinny on weekend games for Virginia’s field hockey, volleyball and women’s golf teams. More extensive previews for the football and men’s soccer teams are available online and in Thursday’s issue of the Cavalier Daily. A full preview for the women’s soccer team is also available online.
Virginia looks to continue its strong play this weekend when it takes on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers (3-2) on Friday night at Klöckner Stadium–followed by a Sunday matinee against Hofstra (3-2)–in the Virginia Nike Soccer Classic.
Coming off a 2-1 neutral site victory against University of Alabama-Birmingham, the No. 15 Virginia men’s soccer team will host in-state rival Virginia Tech in its ACC opener Friday night.
A week after picking up a 45-13 win against in-state opponent Richmond, the Virginia football team heads back into action Saturday against No. 21 Louisville in the last of three straight home games to open the season.
There was a disproportionately low number of #GoACC moments this weekend, with many ACC teams taking the week off by playing vastly inferior opponents or not playing at all.
The Virginia women’s basketball team’s schedule for the 2014-2015 season was released Tuesday. The Cavaliers hope to improve on their 14-17 record from a year ago in which they failed to make the NCAA Tournament. Virginia’s schedule features 17 home games, eight of which will be against ACC opponents.
While most other students were in class Tuesday afternoon, the No. 9 Virginia field hockey team was on the field facing Miami (Ohio) in its second home game of the season.
Before all else, my tennis fandom can be described as fiercely nationalistic. But as Chanhong noted last week, long gone are the days when American men were serious contenders at major tournaments.
This weekend, the Virginia men’s golf team claimed victory at the 13-team Northern Collegiate at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois in the Cavaliers’ first tournament of the season. No. 13 Virginia shot a collective 15-over 879 at the 54-hole tournament to best Winthrop and Ohio State by three strokes each.
