Three other organizations — Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball and Perfect Game — also honored O’Connor as their National Coach of the Year.
The World Cup ratings put an important but oft-ignored fact about sports into plain view: the popularity of a sporting event is inseparably entangled with group membership.
Virginia coaches have been hitting the recruiting trail hard trying to lock-up the next high school stud turned All-American. Here is a recap of the recruiting progress on the men’s basketball, football, men’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s soccer fronts.
Now, I love beating the Hokies just as much as the next person, but in my four years at the University I’ve noticed that, to most students, Virginia Tech seems to be our only rival. What I want to know is: why not UNC?
Former Virginia wing Justin Anderson was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2015 NBA Draft Thursday night.
The Virginia baseball team captured its maiden national championship Wednesday night in Omaha with a 4-2 win against Vanderbilt at TD Ameritrade Park.
The Virginia baseball team defeated Vanderbilt by a 3-0 final score Tuesday night in Omaha, evening the College World Series Finals at one game apiece.
Monday night in Omaha, Virginia opposed Florida in the College World Series — and emphatically rose to the occasion.
No. 14 Virginia baseball defeated No. 11 Arkansas, 5-3, Saturday in the opening game of the College World Series. Senior third baseman Kenny Towns singled home sophomore Daniel Pinero to break a 3-3 deadlock in the 8th inning.
Virginia took a long, strange trip filled with ups and a plethora of downs to the 2015 College World Series. Still, even in an uncommonly difficult season, the end result of postseason success has not changed.
Saturday’s Super Regional contest played out eerily similar to Friday’s opening game.
No. 14 Virginia baseball entered the eighth inning on the wrong side of a 3-0 score Friday afternoon, but as has been the case throughout the NCAA tournament, the Cavaliers turned it on when it counted the most to take the first game of the Charlottesville Super Regional against 15th-ranked Maryland and took the contest 5-3.
At April’s spring football game, three Virginia running backs — junior Taquan Mizzell, sophomore Daniel Hamm and redshirt freshman Jordan Ellis — split first-team reps. Come the Sept. 5 opener against UCLA at the Rose Bowl, yet another name will be competing for carries.
The Virginia women’s rowing team won the Varsity Four national title Sunday at the NCAA Championships in Gold River, California. As a team, the Cavaliers placed fifth overall for the third consecutive year as a result of the Varsity Four’s victory and the Varsity Eight’s third-place finish.
Third-seeded Virginia baseball scored two runs in the eighth inning to pull past No. 4 seed San Diego State for a 3-1 victory Saturday night. The victory puts the Cavaliers (36-22, 15-15 ACC) into the Lake Elsinore Regional championship game and one win away from a Super Regional berth.
Third-seeded Virginia baseball defeated No. 2 seed USC 14-10 in a thrilling 11-inning marathon to capture the Lake Elsinore Regional championship. The Cavaliers (37-22, 15-15 ACC) overcame a 9-5 deficit to force extra innings.
Behind another strong outing by sophomore Connor Jones third-seeded Virginia baseball dropped No. 2 seed USC 6-1 in the opening game of the Lake Elsinore Regional Friday night. The Cavaliers (35-22, 15-15 ACC) claimed their NCAA tournament opener for the seventh consecutive season.
Before this season, Virginia junior Ryan Shane had won just one match at the NCAA Men’s Singles Championship. But Monday at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Shane emerged from the 64-player field a champion.
The Virginia baseball team hung tough for seven innings Saturday night against NC State, but a late-innings breakdown cost the No. 24 Cavaliers (34-22, 15-15 ACC) in a 10-2 defeat at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina.
Seventh-seeded Virginia baseball lost to No. 3 seed Notre Dame 8-2 Friday at the ACC tournament in Durham, North Carolina.
