When the Virginia women's soccer team stepped onto the field at Klockner Stadium for its first home game this season against Mississippi, something slightly odd seemed to be going on.
Florida State dropped 12 spots in the Associated Press college football top 25 poll this week after Saturday's stunning 41-9 loss to North Carolina.
Whether they have seen Jenny Harmon as a player or as a volunteer coach, in the weight room or in the classroom, those around her observe two qualities shining through all of her work: her intense competitiveness and her selfless desire to aid whomever needs assistance. Developing the maturity to meld these two potentially opposing characteristics together has made Harmon, a fourth-year junior co-captain on the Virginia women's volleyball team, into much more than a great athlete.
Two days after the Virginia football team upset Clemson, Cavalier coach Al Groh said that it is important for the team to stop thinking about the win and concentrate on the upcoming game against Duke. Groh stressed the fact that Duke (0-3, 0-1 ACC) is a tough team to face, even though the Blue Devils have yet to win a game.
Saturday, in the span of roughly 10 hours, a league commonly teased as "Florida State and the other eight" turned into FS-eeww and a band of unheralded and undaunted upstarts. Traditionally, schools like Maryland, Wake Forest and North Carolina boast about as much football luster nationally as Geraldo Rivera does journalistic credibility. If Saturday's startling, if not downright jaw-dropping, results are any indication, though, the aforementioned and their conference counterparts won't be blips for long ... more like fixtures on every fan's double Doppler. To think Clemson would fall, 26-24, at home to a Virginia team that needed every hair on its chinny-chin-chin to top I-AA Richmond is surprising enough.
Despite the absence of leading scorer Alecko Eskandarian from the lineup Saturday night, the Virginia men's soccer team showed no signs of distress as it soundly defeated ACC rival North Carolina, 2-0, at Klockner Stadium.
On the heels of its victory at N.C. State last week, the No. 11 Virginia women's soccer team tied No.
Amid patriotism and Tiger paws, the Virginia football team returned to the field after last week's cancellations and escaped with a last-second 26-24 upset at Clemson on Saturday night. With no timeouts left and 1 minute, 43 seconds left to play, the Cavaliers (2-1, 1-0 ACC) marched down the field from their own 44-yard line and scored the winning touchdown when sophomore quarterback Bryson Spinner found wide receiver Billy McMullen in the corner of the end zone with one second left in the game. "We practiced that play all week," Spinner said.
As a referee threw the 11th penalty flag of the night following Billy McMullen's last-second touchdown catch, every Virginia fan probably held his or her breath.
No. 12 Virginia field hockey fell to 2000 NCAA Champion Old Dominion, 3-2, yesterday at University Hall Turf Field after ODU managed to force 16 penalty corners to the Cavaliers' four. Senior co-captain Jessie Coleman and junior Katie Slocum both put the ball in the cage for Virginia (4-2), but it was not enough to top No.
The Virginia men's soccer team already avenged one of its postseason losses last year after beating Creighton, 3-2, on Sept.
The Virginia field hockey team gears up for a tough game against defending national champion No.
Young rejoins Cavaliers as softball coach Virginia softball coach Cheryl Sprangel announced yesterday that Meg Young will be a graduate assistant coach for the Cavaliers. Young is pursuing a master's in physiology with a concentration in strength and conditioning after graduating from Virginia with a degree in Spanish in May 2001. Young was a standout Cavalier during her playing days.
The Virginia football team (1-1) hopes to prove history wrong when it travels to Clemson on Saturday for its first game in three weeks. Traditionally, No.
He stands 5-foot-11 and weighs in at 200 pounds. He can run and pass with remarkable ease. He bench-presses over 400 pounds - eighth highest on his team.
During the waning days of summer, some university students flock to the beaches for a few final days of fun and relaxation.
Virginia football coach Al Groh apologized yesterday for making an inconsiderate remark toward Arabs during the weekly ACC football coaches teleconference earlier in the day. "I am sorry if my remarks were insensitive," Groh said in a press release.
In its first home game of the season, Virginia field hockey handed previously unbeaten Richmond (5-1) a 2-0 loss yesterday night at University Hall Turf Field.
The National Football League made a grave mistake this past weekend. Canceling the football games on Sunday was a cop-out. Now, before you begin to protest that I'm being insensitive and say that the NFL did the right thing and showed the utmost respect to the dead, hear me out.
W hat's the first thing that comes to mind when you envision a 6-foot-7, 255-pound man holding a chain saw?
