[caption id="attachment_44334" align="alignleft" width="235" caption="Senior goalkeeper Chantel Jones currently sits one shutout shy of the ACC career record.
[caption id="attachment_44257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Coach Mike London enters his second season at Virginia hopeful that his much-ballyhooed 2011 recruiting class can adjust quickly to college football and push established veterans for playing time during preseason practices.
As I sat on the doorstep of adulthood and the real world last Sunday - the last weekend before the start of my fourth year - not even the opportunity to spend my last, truly free night out on the town could drag me away from watching a bunch of random guys wearing the helmet of my beloved Dallas Cowboys get torn to shreds by another set of random, oversized men masquerading as the San Diego Chargers.
[caption id="attachment_44253" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Former Virginia catcher John Hicks, who started all 68 games for the Cavaliers last season, has batted .274 with one home run and 18 RBIs in 29 games for the Class A Clinton LumberKings of the Midwest League.
The year is 1932. It has been nearly three long years since the Great Depression began. It is the fifth inning of game three of the World Series, and Babe Ruth is at the plate.
Senior outside hitter Simone Asque took some of the sting out of the Virginia volleyball team's expected ninth-place conference finish this season. Asque earned a selection to the 2011 Preseason All-ACC Team Tuesday- the third-consecutive season she has been named to the team by the annual ACC volleyball preseason poll. [caption id="attachment_44250" align="alignleft" width="291" caption="Senior outside hitter Simone Asque started all 30 games for Virginia during the 2010 season.
[caption id="attachment_44185" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="After earning all-ACC honors in 2010, senior forward Brian Ownby returns to the Cavalier attack after spending a summer working to build chemistry with junior forward Will Bates and sophomore forward Brian Span.
Carlos Zambrano is crazy. I think we can all agree on that. I bet we can also agree that in almost every setting, being crazy is a nuisance.
[caption id="attachment_44182" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sophomore forward Gloria Douglas notched three assists during Virginia's shutout of the Spiders Sunday night.
[caption id="attachment_44180" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Former Cavalier pitcher Danny Hultzen will not return for his senior season, and instead has chosen to begin his professional career with the Mariners.
Virginia men's tennis player Jarmere Jenkins defeated three world-ranked competitors en route to earning the singles title at the Purnell-Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament Sunday afternoon in Salisbury, Md.
Boston College football coach Frank Spaziani sits across from a few reporters and me, chatting about his mustache. "I'll give you an idea [of how long I've had it] without telling you how old I am," Spaziani says.
Former Cavalier standout Matt McLean collected two first-place finishes while representing the United States at the 2011 World University Games.
[caption id="attachment_44137" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Freshamn David Watford, sophomore Michael Rocoo, redshirt sophomore Ross Metheny and redshirt freshman Michael Strauss all hope to be the one under center come fall.
[caption id="attachment_44134" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="After a one-game suspension, senior midfielder Colin Briggs scored five goals and earned Most Outstanding Player honors during the finals matchup.
Virginia men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia announced Friday that senior midfielder Shamel Bratton has been dismissed from the team for a violation of team policies.
[caption id="attachment_44043" align="alignleft" width="169" caption="Junior third baseman Steven Proscia is batting .357 as part of a Virginia lineup that ranks 25th in the nation in hitting.
[caption id="attachment_44040" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Defender Marghi Walters and the team's other three seniors will attempt to topple Northwestern for the first time during their Cavalier careers.
The Virginia men's lacrosse teams enters its last regular season game of the season in a decidedly unfamiliar position - playing for its shot at a postseason. Coming off back-to-back losses to Duke, the Cavaliers (8-5) will host Penn (8-4) this weekend with a chance to prove they deserve to be playing in May.
[caption id="attachment_44035" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior infielder Kennedy Byxbee said the team hopes to push past the Wolfpack and position itself better for the ACC Tournament next month.
