Virginia, O'Connor net potent class of recruits
By Joey Mancini | November 20, 2003On Tuesday, the Virginia baseball team announced the first additions to a highly-touted 2003 recruiting class in the first year under coach Brian O'Connor.
On Tuesday, the Virginia baseball team announced the first additions to a highly-touted 2003 recruiting class in the first year under coach Brian O'Connor.
The University of Virginia men's soccer team (9-9-2) will play the Seton Hall Pirates (9-5-4) at home in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday, Nov.
Rowing is a grueling sport, taxing nearly every muscle in the body and depleting all one's cardiovascular energy.
With a running game that is playing a Jekyll-and-Hyde routine, Virginia football coaches are looking to add competition among their offensive linemen to inspire the unit to play more consistently. Enter freshman offensive guard Ian- Yates Cunningham. An inspiring sight based on physical attributes alone, the 6-foot-6, 309-pound guard has started the past two Cavalier away games, at N.C.
After letting a 17-point second half lead go down the drain against Team Dasani, Virginia was saved by the last-second heroics of Todd Billet.
Virginia field hockey captain Katie Jo Gerfen has been named to the STX-NFHCA All-South Region First Team.
ABC-TV will announce the start time for the game between Virginia (5-5, 3-4 ACC) and Virginia Tech on Sunday.
Most of the world over, the sport of "football" is played with no pads, no helmets, no cheerleaders and certainly no pigskin.
The Virginia men's cross country team's season is not over yet. Yesterday, the men learned that they had received one of 13 at-large bids to compete in the NCAA Championships Nov.
With two games left in the regular season, the Virginia Cavaliers can still salvage a season that began with such high expectations. Virginia still needs one more win in order to become bowl-eligible.
The Virginia men's basketball team will take to the floor tonight in its final exhibition contest looking to prove that its first game offensive prowess wasn't a fluke.
Politics always seems to be present in the realm of sports, whether it's conference realignments, bowl invitations or antitrust exemptions.
Cavalier volleyball falls to Florida State, 3-2 The Virginia volleyball team dropped a 3-2 decision to Florida State in Tallahassee yesterday.
As a light rain began to fall over Rivanna Reservoir yesterday morning, the Virginia women's crew team's four boat was in the midst of the second competitive race of the Rivanna Romp, the final fall meet for the Cavalier Crew team.
After controlling the ball for most of the contest and outshooting Villanova 20 to 5, the No. 7 seed Virginia women's soccer team fell to the Wildcats 4-2 in penalty kicks in yesterday's second round NCAA tournament match at Klöckner Stadium. The game ended in a scoreless tie and went on to penalty kicks, where Villanova goalkeeper Chrissy Dolan twice thwarted the Cavaliers' attempts from six yards out, giving the Wildcat shooters the cushion they needed to advance.
With three veterans sidelined by injuries and all three freshmen seeing significant playing time, the Virginia basketball team dropped Friday's exhibition game to the Premier Players, 88-81.
You want drama? Why not ask the newly crowned 2003 ACC tournament champions, the Virginia men's soccer team, to tell you about their weekend. For the past five days, the Cavaliers have been battling against the rest of the ACC in Cary, N.C.
After Virginia's 24-0 victory over Troy State last month, coach Al Groh praised his young defense for allowing only one touchdown in its last two games, a long pass play to Florida State's Craphonso Thorpe.
As a result of the conference realignements over the past few weeks, Notre Dame has seriously considered applying for full membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference, USA Today reported yesterday. The Fighting Irish are members of the Big East in most sports, but their storied football program has been independent for over 100 years. The ACC's new additions of Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College make a jump to the ACC more appealing to Notre Dame, who has struggled to a 3-6 record this season in football. Two officials within the ACC with knowledge of the moves told USA Today that Notre Dame's recent interest is considered to be serious.
With the top two teams automatically qualifying for Nationals, the Virginia men's and women's squads have a berth set in their sights as they head to the Cross Country Regional Championships tomorrow in Greenville, N.C. In addition, two or three other schools will likely be extended an at-large bid and the top four runners whose teams do not make the cut will also be handed invitations. The men's squad's last big race came at the ACC championships at Wake Forest on Nov.