Leaves may be withering and falling all over Grounds, but on the University Hall Turf Field, Carrie Goodloe already is blooming for the Virginia field hockey team. Goodloe has scored 16 of her 18 points this season in the Cavs' last five games and looks as though she is getting better and better with every game. "I've just been working really hard," she said.
Brandi Teamer and Joanna Kemp, previously the two tallest members of the Virginia women's basketball freshman class, will not play this season, The Daily Progress reported yesterday. Teamer, a 6-foot-2 power forward from Joliet, Ill., has been declared academically ineligible to attend Virginia.
At one point or another, every Virginia sports fan wonders what perks go with wearing the orange and blue.
Virginia women's soccer coach Steve Swanson has his own unwritten "Zero Tolerance" policy. It does not cover NCAA eligibility infractions or illegal athletic gambling.
For those of you who think student-athletes are stupid, meet Bob Thiele. He'll change your mind. Thiele, a senior captain of the men's cross country team, defies the stereotype of the academically challenged jock.
Anyone who's anyone in the world of collegiate soccer knows to disregard the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll at the beginning of the season.
Last season the Virginia men's basketball team lacked a pure center, putting it at a disadvantage against teams with large front lines.
Two years after putting together a top-five recruiting class, the Virginia men's basketball program again has an abundance of scholarships to hand out and plenty of talented prospects to pursue. Seniors Donald Hand, Keith Friel and Stephane Dondon will graduate following this season.
Alas, the Virginia football team ... or what's left of the hamstrung hodgepodge after Dan Ellis' right leg crumpled beneath him, has the week off. So the way I figure it, so too does this lowly columnist proudly bearing the moniker "big-money sport tycoon" across his chest.
Antwoine Womack probably de-served to get recognition from the ACC for pounding Wake Forest with a career-high 180 rushing yards last week, but Chris Weinke was honored instead.
"Recruiting? Do you really want me to go back that far? When I first saw her play during her junior year in high school, I actually crossed her off my list." Maybe not the first thing an athlete wants to hear out of her coach's mouth, but for freshman volleyballer Paige Davis, Virginia coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton's confession is defining.
Imagine waking up at 5:30 every weekday, then rolling out of bed to head to 45 minutes of stretching and aerobic warmups.
The Virginia men's soccer team has earned a nine-day break after surviving consecutive double-overtime games.
Virginia coach George Welsh has received his fair share of criticism this season, but the man deserves more credit than he gets.
It's the same story once more for the Virginia women's volleyball team. The Cavaliers (8-9, 4-3 ACC) split a pair of games this weekend at home after doing the same last weekend on the road.
Despite losing quarterback Dan Ellis to an injury near the end of the first half, Virginia held off a persistent Maryland squad for a 31-23 victory Saturday at Scott Stadium. Virginia stuck to the usual game plan this week: strike early and often and hope the defense hangs on. The offense scored a season-high 28 points in the first half, including three rushing touchdowns by junior running back Tyree Foreman.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -The Virginia women's soccer team's road game against Maryland Friday was a tale of two halves.
Led by seniors Katie Jones and Deanna Zwarich, the Cavalier women's volleyball team will host N.C.
Virginia looks to take its ninth straight win against Maryland tomorrow, but the Terps, led by onetime Heisman hopeful LaMont Jordan, hope for revenge after a devastating last-second loss to the Cavs a year ago.
Thank heavens for George Washington. Six days ago the Virginia women's soccer team was frustrated after an oh-so-close 2-1 loss to No.
