During this weekend's chilly and rainy Saturday afternoon at University Hall Turf Field, the No.
The Cavaliers broke a three-year streak of second-place finishes, besting defending champion North Carolina by 101 points to take the school's fourth conference championship in the 25 years of ACC women's swimming. Virginia emerged victorious in the three-day, 20-event meet thanks primarily to the efforts of its 11 All-ACC swimmers.
This weekend is the final home match for one of this season's most successful Cavalier teams. The Virginia wrestling team is hot right now, and they have been for quite some time.
Virginia sophomore center Brandi Teamer has had no trouble eating up ACC defenses this season. Tonight however, she encountered some trouble with a pre-game meal of banana splits. Teamer was announced to start the game but vomitted behind the bench seconds before tip-off after devouring more ice cream than her stomach could handle, forcing a last minute change in the starting lineup. "I had a heck of a lot of ice cream before the game," Teamer said.
After letting a 16-point halftime lead slip away, the Virginia women's basketball team managed to hold off a resilient Terrapin team for the 71-67 win in College Park last night.
After eight months of waiting, a brand new college baseball season finally begins. It's time to pull the Cavalier hat out of the closet, and make your way to Ted Davenport Field to watch the Virginia baseball team clash with rival clubs.
Virginia's season teeters on the brink of disaster as the Cavaliers prepare for a must-win match-up at Wake Forest Sunday. Reeling from three straight losses by an average of 13.7 points, Virginia (14-10, 5-7 ACC) must find a way to stop the bleeding against the No.
At the close of the first day of events in the ACC women's swimming and diving championships, Virginia had racked up a total of 195 points.
It is championship season in the pool. The No. 13 Virginia women's swimming and diving team has been training all season for the ACC Championships, a meet that will begin today in Chapel Hill, NC.
Brian Kontak will try to become the first male golfer to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. "I'm exploring the possibility.
The ACC indoor championships will be held at UNC this year onFebruary 21-22. 11 times Seniors Kiamesha Otey and Scott Kimball finished first inthe team in the 60-meter dash out of 6 indoor meets 4 times Otey finished first in the team in the long jump 7.37 Otey's best time in the 60 meter dash 12 feet cleared by pole-vaulter Vika Osipenko to set a new school record on Feb.
With only three games remaining in the regular season, a new sense of urgency has taken hold of the Virginia women's basketball team. The Cavaliers have won four of their last five but are only 12-12 overall and are still underwater (6-7) in the ACC.
The Virginia wrestling team topped Maryland last night on the road, by a margin of 32-12, to finish their conference season with a perfect 4-0 record.
Five years extends beyond the career span of any one college athlete or class of athletes. Thus, to win five consecutive conference championships is a feat not easily matched, as it requires long-term consistency from a constantly evolving team
Pete Gillen needs a hug. And he needs one badly. Following Tuesday night's embarrassing loss at the hands of a 3-7 Clemson squad, Gillen was almost at a loss for words in his postgame press conference.
Playing at home just isn't the same anymore. After the 78-59 loss to Duke last Saturday, the Cavaliers appeared to have as meager a challenge as they could handle in eighth-place Clemson (13-11, 4-7 ACC), who had come into the game with an 0-4 road record in the conference. Clemson reinforced the unpredictability of the ACC, grabbing the lead in the opening minutes and holding off the Cavaliers' attempted second-half comeback to secure a 73-64 victory last night. When these two teams met in Clemson on Jan.
My friends, it's a bleak time of year to be in Charlottesville -- or anywhere else on the East Coast, for that matter.
While the residents of Hooville debate whether the three-point shooting of the men's basketball team or the local blizzard is icier, it has been the golfers of the PGA and LPGA Tour that have created quite a stir over the past week. For starters, Phil Mickelson referred to Tiger Woods's Nike equipment as inferior during an interview with Golf Magazine last week.
For the Cavaliers, Saturday night's attempt to beat Duke in U-Hall for the third time in three years was anything but charmed. No.
While the men's basketball team resembled frozen statues Saturday night, the Virginia wrestling team remained red-hot, defeating NC State 25-12 and Duke 29-6 in a pair of dual matches.
