If football is synonymous with war, then Happy Valley is college football's ground zero. It is here - nestled among the Commonwealth's mixture of mountains and valleys - that Joe Paterno has erected a football republic of Spartan fortitude, capturing two national titles and notching five perfect seasons.
Virginia football coach Al Groh announced in a press conference yesterdaythat sophomore Bryson Spinner would be the starting quarterback for this week's match-up against Penn State on Thursday night. Groh quickly added that both Spinner and sophomore Matt Schaub will receive playing time against the Nittany Lions, saying that both quarterbacks have been performing well in practice. "Both Schaub and Spinner are making very good progress," he said.
Abby Whittenburg is no stranger to excelling through the rigors of daily competition. Long before she became the starting setter for the Virginia women's volleyball team, Whittenburg was the youngest member of another team, the family of George and Ann Whittenburg.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 3 men's soccer team exorcised some demons yesterday. A 3-2 victory over Creighton in the first-place game of the Maryland/Fila Classic in College Park, Md., avenge last season's humiliating 3-0 home loss to the Bluejays in the third round of the NCAA tournament. "We've been looking forward to playing [Creighton] ever since we lost to them last year," junior midfielder Ryan Gibbs said.
Field hockey downs Ohio, SW Missouri State On Saturday, the Cavaliers rallied to tie Ohio at two with 34 seconds left on midfielder Jessie Coleman's goal.
The Virginia cross country team got its first taste of competition this season on Saturday when it ran in the annual Lou Onesty Invitational at Panorama Farms.
The Virginia women's soccer team just couldn't get anything going offensively in yesterday's finale of the Virginia Soccer Classic at Klockner Stadium.
The No. 3 Virginia men's soccer team enters this weekend's Maryland/FILA Classic aspiring to return home with two wins.
Virginia men's soccer coach George Gelnovatch announced a change in the Cavaliers' schedule yesterday.
Virginia football coach Al Groh reaffirmed in a teleconference yesterday that he is not dissatisfied with the Cavaliers despite their narrow one-point win over Division I-AA Richmond on Saturday. "I don't know that I'm dissatisfied in the team in any respect," Groh said.
The No. 5 Virginia women's soccer team looks to build on last weekend's 3-0 win over Mississippi by kicking off the 2001 Virginia Soccer Classic against West Virginia (2-0) tonight. Although the Cavaliers (1-0) opened the season by shutting out the Rebels, they were less than convincing.
The Virginia cross country team will start off a new season Saturday in the annual Lou Onesty Invitational at Darden Towne Park.
Virginia senior midfielder Carrie Goodloe chuckled self-consciously when asked about how she got her start playing field hockey. "I was actually kind of a late bloomer," Goodloe said.
Top prospect commits to Virginia Derrick Byars, a 6-foot-7 small forward from Memphis, Tenn., verbally committed to Virginia on Tuesday night. Byars averaged 19.8 points, 7 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in his junior year at Ridgeway High School.
In the fall of 2000, William C. Eacho Jr. donated $1.4 million to the Virginia athletics department to establish a women's golf scholarship endowment.
So I was sitting in my room last night, hoping, no, praying that an idea for my column would smack me upside my head.
Facing an unexpected deficit after the first game last night, the Virginia women's volleyball team rallied together and stormed back to defeat in-state rival Virginia Tech, 3-1 (28-30, 30-27, 30-28, 30-27). "We try and tell the girls that for every in-state team, their match of the year is playing us," Virginia coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton said.
Wake Forest leads way in ACC weekly honors The Demon Deacon football team, in light of its 21-19 upset victory over East Carolina, received three player recognitions in this week's conference honors.
The play seemed simple enough. A simple pitch to the right, with some broken tackles. The run continued up the right sideline and seemed to be good for a first down.
