This was Marques Hagans' game. Sure, Connor Hughes kicked the lights out, and the Virginia defense smothered the powerful Seminoles, but No.
Earlier this week, I was standing between the turf field and the football practice fields waiting for the field hockey practice to finish.
Roughly a month ago, I found myself wandering through the doors of a desolate Observatory Hill Dining Hall around seven in the morning.
"I still don't understand why you're doing this story," volleyball coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton told me as we sat down for an interview in her McCue Center office Wednesday morning.
In the eyes of Virginia head cross country coach Jason Dunn and his team, the regular season is divided into a series of steps, like those on a pyramid.
It's crunch time for the Virginia football team. After last week's loss to Boston College, the team currently stands at 3-2 and is unranked nationally.
Ten months may have passed since the Virginia men's soccer squad last faced the Duke Blue Devils, but many of the team's veteran players remember last year's NCAA quarterfinal match as though it was yesterday. Despite handing the Blue Devils two losses earlier in the season, the Cavalier defense could not suppress an explosive Duke attack that netted two first-half goals and held on for a 3-0 victory in front of nearly 4,200 shocked fans at Klöckner Stadium.
Even though Virginia Tech is the biggest foe for most Virginia athletic teams, the women's soccer team has yet to build a storied rivalry with the Hokies.
With the Cavaliers having reached the midpoint of their conference schedule, now is an excellent time to assess and reflect upon Virginia's season thus far.
As the University of Virginia football team lines up against No. 4 Florida State Saturday, another game will be fresh on the minds of many players, coaches and fans. This year's match against FSU marks the 10-year anniversary of Virginia's greatest football victory -- Nov.
Brad Butler is everywhere. The once-anonymous offensive lineman became the talk of sports pundits across the country this week thanks to his late chop block on Mathias Kiwanuka's injured right leg.
The No.4-ranked Virginia men's soccer team improved its record to 9-1-2 after last night's 2-1 victory against St.
Aaaahhh. Smell that? Smells good, doesn't it? Smells clean. Feels clean. Feels new. What is it?
When glancing at Virginia's roster, the youth of the team is quite striking. The roster features nine freshmen and only two seniors: Joe Vide and Gifford Okatah-Boi.
With three of the girls on the Virginia roster hailing from Lititz, Pa., the small town in central Pennsylvania has found a real niche in the Virginia field hockey program. Seniors Sarah Miller and Dana Anderson welcomed the third Lititz resident to the team, Lucy Meyers, this fall. All three graduated from Warwick High School, where Virginia head coach Jess Wilk was visiting on a recruiting trip yesterday. But even before Miller and Anderson arrived on Grounds, Katie Jo Gerfen set the precedent for all future Virginia bound Lititz-ites.
Hoos Hoop Madness, the first opportunity U.Va. fans will have to see the men and women's basketball teams, will be held at University Hall this Friday, Oct.
In a reaction to the maelstrom of national media attention currently surrounding the Virginia football program, Cavalier left tackle Brad Butler has been suspended for the upcoming game against Florida State.
Club sports are supposed to be stress and commitment-free activities. Winning is just a result of good fun and skill, not the ever-consuming "championship or bust" mentality of professional athletes. So, when the Virginia club baseball team won its conference title, it was both exciting and surprising. "Winning the ACC Tournament was definitely a shot in the arm," senior pitcher Robert Cox said.
The University of Virginia Women's golf team has moved up eight spots and is now ranked 12th nationally.
Looking around at the split Nationals/D.C. United posters pasted up on the walls at RFK Stadium, it's easy to forget that just two years ago the stadium was home to another team.
