Pressure? What pressure? The only pressure preseason All-American candidate and All-ACC forward Svetlana Volnaya feels is the never-ending quest to better herself as a player. "I'm not trying to think about our rankings right now," Volnaya said.
The Virginia baseball team will have two new faces in the dugout this spring. Coach Dennis Womack named Chip Schaffner and Luis Giraldo as the two newest members of his coaching staff.
After losing 37-3 at Florida State, the Virginia football team rebounded with a 17-6 win against North Carolina Saturday.
Oh, how we love to rip Ronald Curry. He's our whipping boy, and when anything dares run amiss in our perfect little college lives, there's always ol' Benedict Curry to blame. C-minus on a midterm?
How important are the last three games of the season for the Virginia football team? Byron Thweatt can tell you. "This next stretch run is going to determine what is going to happen for this football team," said Thweatt, a senior linebacker.
If you listen to Debbie Ryan, it would be easy to believe the entire Virginia women's basketball team graduated with second team All-ACC point guard Renee Robinson last year.
The Virginia women's rowing team doubled its pleasure, capturing two competitions in Sunday's Princeton Chase.
Before last season, following the graduation of star center DeMya Walker, you could have predicted gloom and doom for the Virginia women's basketball team.
More than the words, the look on Mike O'Cain's face said it all. O'Cain, North Carolina's offensive coordinator, is as calm and tactful a coach as you'll find in college football.
When Virginia wins a swim race, the noise in the Aquatic & Fitness Center rivals the roar at Scott Stadium.
In as close a game as the Virginia women's soccer team has played this season, Alyssa Benitez scored with one minute, 23 seconds to go and beat No.
Numbers might not lie, but this time they're fibbing a bit. Saturday at Scott Stadium, North Carolina dominated the final stat sheet.
RALEIGH, N.C.-Senior captain Bob Thiele ran to an extraordinary second-place finish at the ACC cross country championships Saturday on N.C.
If shots counted as goals, yesterday's matchup between the No. 12 Virginia men's soccer team and unranked Providence would have been a blowout. Instead, the Cavaliers clung to a slim one-goal lead for much of the game and finished with a 2-0 shutout at Kl
With preseason polls putting the Virginia men's soccer team as high as No. 3, one would figure the Cavs were returning a very solid group of starters.
The South's oldest rivalry renews tomorrow at noon at Scott Stadium when the North Carolina and Virginia football teams face off for the 105th time. The Cavaliers (4-3, 3-2 ACC) have come out on top in nine straight home games against UNC since a 17-14 Carolina victory in 1981.
Two weeks ago, college basketball fans around the country celebrated the imminent arrival of the 2000-01 season at their respective Midnight Madness extravaganzas.
Alge Crumpler is one of the best tight ends in college football, but if you're like the rest of America, you probably have never heard of him. During the preseason, many experts projected that the North Carolina senior would be the first tight end taken in the 2001 NFL Draft.
Following the football game tomorrow, the Virginia swimming and diving teams will face the Clemson Tigers in their first ACC contest of the season.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-When Dan Ellis missed a start last season, backup David Rivers had the good fortune to make his first and only Division I start the next week against Georgia Tech and the ACC's most porous pass defense.
