Depending on your perspective, the Virginia women’s lacrosse team’s 2013 season could be deemed disappointing, encouraging or both.
The scene seemed to be lifted directly from the hit comedy “Dodgeball,” when Ben Stiller’s character White Goodman appears to knock out Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) to win the Las Vegas dodgeball tournament.
Throughout the season, coach Brian O’Connor predicted that the Cavalier baseball team’s torrid pace would not be sustainable.
After playing in 10 games as a true freshman in 2011, David Watford was relegated to the sidelines in 2012, forced to listen through a headset as his team stumbled to a disappointing 4-8 finish.
After stumbling out of the gates to a disappointing 3-6 record, the Virginia women’s tennis team dominated in ACC regular season play to finish the season as the nation’s 15th-ranked squad.
After turning a Virginia football team that suffered three consecutive losing seasons into a bowl-eligible 8-5 team in just his second year on Grounds, coach Mike London seemed primed to push his success even further in 2012.
Though apparently never scribbled on the cultural cave wall of Youtube, I swear the following commercial aired in the primitive times of the early 2000s. A keg-bellied, body-painted, hirsute parody of a fan at a college football game declares he’d forfeit his soul for a championship.
Coach Mike London revealed Monday at the ACC Kickoff in Greensboro, N.C. that Watford will be the team’s top quarterback entering camp. Redshirt freshman Greyson Lambert will compete for the starting job as well and a starter will be named in early August.
Football associate Mike Eilbacher and Sports Editor Daniel Weltz provide blog updates from the two-day ACC Kickoff in Greensboro, N.C.
Virginia announced Wednesday that combo guard Taylor Barnette, a rising sophomore guard for the men’s basketball team, will transfer to seek more playing time and a larger share of the responsibilities at another school. “Taylor has informed me that he has decided to transfer from our program,” head coach Tony Bennett said.
Former University of Houston women’s swimming coach Augie Busch has been chosen to replace Mark Bernardino as the head coach of the Virginia swimming and diving program, according to an announcement made by athletic director Craig Littlepage Wednesday morning.
After a 35-year tenure in which he transformed the Virginia men’s and women’s swim and dive program into perennial juggernauts, head coach Mark Bernardino announced his retirement in a statement released by Virginia Monday afternoon.
Virginia sophomore forward Mike Tobey emerged from a hyper-talented pool of prospective players to earn one of twelve spots on the United States U-19 men’s basketball team, which will head to Prague in the Czech Republic for the FIBA U-19 World Championships next week.
Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage announced Tuesday that Oregon assistant Blake Miller has been named the Cavaliers’ new head softball coach. Former coach Eileen Schmidt had resigned May 13 after six seasons at the University.
Rain may have given the No. 6 Virginia baseball team a second wind Monday, but a late rally was not enough to prevent elimination, as the Cavaliers fell in consecutive games to Mississippi State in the Charlottesville Super Regional to end their run in the NCAA Tournament. A normally stellar Cavalier pitching staff struggled from the onset, as freshman Brandon Waddell gave up two runs in the top of the first inning Saturday.
A No. 6 national seed in the NCAA tournament brought a lot of expectations for the Virginia baseball team as they hosted the Charlottesville Regional round. In three wins – one over Army, two over Elon – the Cavaliers lived up to that hype, riding solid pitching and timely hitting to advance to the Super Regional round.
What to conclude about building a successful college football program in the wake of Phillip Sims’ departure from Virginia.
Phillip Sims is no longer on the Virginia football roster and will leave the University after completion of his summer school session, coach Mike London announced Friday. The Chesapeake, Va. native appeared in all 12 games at quarterback during his sophomore season after transferring from Alabama.
The Virginia men’s tennis team capped a perfect season Tuesday with a 4-3 win against UCLA to earn its first NCAA Championship in program history.
In the final action of the regular season, the No. 7 Virginia baseball team saved its best for last.
