Coming off a disappointing 2-10 season, the Virginia football team has much room for an improvement heading into the 2014 campaign. The Cavaliers hope that a slew of returning skill position players will give the offense a much-needed spark to earn the program its first winning season since coach Mike London’s inaugural year.
By most statistical measures, the Virginia defense was no better than mediocre in 2013, when the team surrendered 399 points in 12 games to post the 98th best scoring defense in college football.
The 125th season of Virginia football kicks off Saturday against No. 7 UCLA, a Pac-12 powerhouse and the winner of the 2013 Hyundai Sun Bowl against Virginia Tech.
Fans can learn a great deal by listening to preseason prognostications. Why, just last year I learned never to trust preseason prognosticators!
Virginia junior Danielle Collins continued her impressive individual run Tuesday in a solid outing against the No.
In just two years as head coach, Dennis Hohenshelt has turned the Virginia volleyball program around; last season was the first time since 2008 the squad finished with a winning record.
After two strong preseason wins against Michigan State and VCU, the Virginia women’s soccer team opened its regular season campaign with a thoroughly dominant 3-0 win against the Marshall Thundering Herd (0-0-1) in the first-ever matchup between the two teams.
Coach George Gelnovatch does not want his team to lose sight of the smaller steps necessary for eventual postseason success.
Given last season’s banner success for Virginia Athletics, the University is buzzing with anticipation for the fall season. Fall sports will begin in just a few days and though new faces are sure to make an impact on the Cavalier community, many Virginia squads will look to returning stars to lead them to victory.
The leaves are changing, the students are returning, and the corner is draped in Cavalier orange and blue. Though many things change from year to year, one thing has stayed the same for Cavalier fans: a continuously successful women’s soccer team.
Whit Mayberry was pitching on June 7, 2014: the day he was chosen to play baseball for a living. His Cavaliers were embroiled in an NCAA Super Regional game with Maryland.
Four thousand miles away from the sleepy lobby of a dusty hostel in the heart of Paris, France, the community I had abruptly left behind was nearing a prideful triumph.
As the Cavaliers prepare for 2014, a second consecutive trip to the College Cup remains the goal, and it seems to be within reach.
Virginia men’s basketball player Evan Nolte was arrested on a charge of public intoxication and swearing by the Charlottesville Police Department early Sunday morning.
With the great success of our athletics department last year — in the Directors’ Cup standings, which ranks Division I schools by their top-10 finishes in both men’s and women’s sports, Virginia finished fourth — it’s hard not be excited about what the 2014-15 year holds.
Ryan and Matt continue their highlights of a sports-filled summer vacation.
After Ryan’s recap of all the the Hoos now off to the pros, here’s all you need to know about the professional sporting world more broadly.
To keep you briefed on all that’s going on this summer, we’re bringing you a new series that will condense, analyze and contextualized all the latest sports developments. Welcome to the first-ever Midsummers Minute. For this first week, we’ll focus on Virginia athletes — or rather, those who have since turned in their jerseys to join professional teams.
What’s in a name? Americans nationwide — especially in the D.C. area — have been asking this question for years, with legal and political charges building against the Washington Redskins.
So much more than John Norwood’s rocket home run off junior closer Nick Howard happened to Virginia baseball in 2014. The stunned feeling one felt after that play was powerful, but it cannot override the emotion many fans likely felt watching their team play this year: Cavalier pride.
