After three straight tough losses, the Virginia volleyball team headed into this past weekend searching far and wide for a win.
Virginia traveled to Louisville with their backs against the wall — needing a perfect 3-0 finish to gain bowl eligibility. The Cavaliers (3-7, 2-4 ACC) put up a noble fight against the Cardinals (6-4, 5-2 ACC), but in the end Virginia’s demons came back to haunt them in a 38-31 defeat.
Virginia (3-7, 2-4 ACC) fought the Cardinals (6-4, 5-3) down to the final whistle, but second half miscues cost the Cavaliers a chance at bowl eligibility.
The Virginia women’s soccer team hosted Howard (13-8-2) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament — five days removed from a taxing penalty-kick loss to No. 1 Florida State in the ACC Tournament Final.
The Virginia women’s and men’s cross country teams raced to first and second place, respectively, Friday afternoon at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship, advancing to next weekend’s national championships.
Virginia women’s basketball saw its late double-digit lead slip away but held on to beat Middle Tennessee State 70-66 Friday night in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The final score was irrelevant since the talent discrepancy was simply too overwhelming, rendering an upset victory by Morgan State nearly impossible.
The Cavaliers broke open the floor in transition to finish the first half, quickly jumping out to a 40-23 halftime lead and an eventual 86-46 season-opening victory.
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Wednesday evening, ESPNW announced Virginia senior center back Emily Sonnett won its 2015 Soccer Player of the Year award. Sonnett anchors a Cavalier defense that has allowed an average of only .58 goals per game and amassed 12 shutouts through 19 matches.
After falling to Florida State 1-0 in the 2014 national title game, the Virginia women’s soccer team had one goal to begin 2015: win the NCAA championship.
It is the eve of the 2015-16 NCAA men’s basketball season and storylines abound.
A pair of players from the Virginia men’s tennis team and four from the women’s side head to Flushing Meadows, New York, for the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship beginning Thursday.
Entering his seventh season in Charlottesville, coach Tony Bennett has undoubtedly brought Virginia basketball back into the national spotlight — back-to-back 30-win seasons and ACC regular-season titles will do that for a program.
If the Cavaliers want to be bowl-eligible for the first time since 2011, they must initially go through a tough Louisville squad on the road this Saturday. Virginia (3-6, 2-3 ACC) has to win its final three games for any hope of playing postseason football this winter.
But April rolled around and senior forward Sarah Imovbioh, who had earned a fifth year of NCAA eligibility, decided to take her talents to Columbia, South Carolina, where the preseason-No. 2 Gamecocks have turned into a premier program.
The Cavaliers (15-10), losers of five of their last seven matches, have now suffered three consecutive losses.
At U.Va., we consider men’s basketball as its own holiday season. After the long period of mourning often associated with the football months of defeat, students transition to John Paul Jones Arena and see coach Tony Bennett and his Top 10 team — currently ranked 5th/6th in the preseason national polls — hit the court.
Virginia women’s tennis wrapped up their weekend at the Kitty Harrison Invitational Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C., where they won two of their three singles matchups while struggling in doubles play.
The Virginia wrestling team made significant efforts this weekend in the Midwest as they traveled to No. 25 North Dakota State for their first dual meet of the season on Friday, and then to Minnesota on Saturday for a quad meet, where they faced No. 24 Minnesota, South Dakota State, and Grand Canyon.
