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.
The Cleveland Cavaliers Thursday night chose Joe Harris with the 33rd pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. League commissioner Adam Silver announced the selection on-stage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The standout guard becomes the Virginia’s highest-picked player since Roger Mason, Jr., who went 31st overall to the Chicago Bulls in 2001.
The Virginia baseball team dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker to Vanderbilt Wednesday night at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, falling just short in its quest to capture the 2014 NCAA Baseball Championship.
Waddell’s series-leveling gem, coupled with Virginia’s 10 hits against Vanderbilt junior right-hander Tyler Beede, means that the Cavaliers will be back at TD Ameritrade Park Wednesday night at 8 p.m. for a chance to seize college baseball’s national championship.
The rollicking contest, highlighted by the Commodores’ nine-run third inning and the No. 3 Cavaliers’ slow and steady comeback, featured 17 runs and 21 hits, but it was Vanderbilt that ultimately emerged with a 9-8 victory.
The Virginia baseball team walked off the field on Saturday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha the winner of 52 games in 2014 and 463 since coach Brian O’Connor arrived in Charlottesville 11 years ago. Virginia’s 4-1 storm-delayed victory against Mississippi, however, was not just one more in a long list of wins. Behind gutsy sophomore right-hander Josh Sborz, dominant relief pitching and resilient offense, the No. 3 Cavaliers (52-14, 22-8 ACC) advanced to the College World Series Finals for the first time in program history.
Freshman shortstop Daniel Pinero drove a fly ball to center field to score junior pinch runner Thomas Woodruff from third base for Virginia’s second walk-off win in two games at the College World Series.
