“The skinny” on Virginia football, men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and volleyball weekend games.
Current Bayside High School star safety Quin Blanding arrived in Charlottesville Aug. 31 to watch his childhood friends play college football.
Senior defensive tackle Brent Urban is a gentle giant for the Cavaliers. But there is nothing gentle about his on-field prowess, as some professional scouts are beginning to notice.
Another day, another NCAA scandal. There’s an ongoing trend today in the collegiate sports world of big name Universities coming under fire for breaking NCAA violations.
The top-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team will be hitting the road for the first time this season when it travels to Newton, Mass.
Monday morning at the practice field next to Klöcker Stadium underneath an overcast sky, Virginia junior defender Kyler Sullivan shared one of the Cavaliers’ goals for the season: “make Klöckner a fortress.”
From an incredible one-handed catch against Penn State that put the Virginia football team in a position to kick a game-winning field goal, to a clutch game-winning catch against Miami in the back of the endzone, junior tight end Jake McGee had his fair share of highlights in last year’s otherwise disappointing football season. He continued to shine in spite of an overall dismal offensive outing against Oregon, snagging eight passes, twice as many as his previous single-game best. In doing so, McGee has emerged as one of the anchors of the Cavalier offense.
Because you can’t spell “elite” without #GoACC, each week we will provide conference-wide football power rankings.
In “Jurassic Park,” Dr. Alan Grant and his comrades first encounter the Tyrannosaurus Rex well before the movie’s climax. They survive the attack — or at least the good guys do — and breathe easy for a bit. But of course, the drama is far from over. Though smaller and lacking the brute force of the T-rex, the Velociraptors prove to be a deadly challenge in their own right.
Coach Mike London knows the team has much work to do entering the bye week at 1-1, but he also understands that the team needs to put those first two games of the season in context.
After two consecutive losses, the Virginia men’s soccer returns to Charlottesville Tuesday for a meeting with George Mason, who leave Fairfax for the first time this season.
The No. 2 Virginia women’s soccer team has had a perfect season so far, overpowering seven straight opponents.
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Scrawled across the pop-up that welcomed visitors to the USA Rugby website last week, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s famous words emphasized the scene surrounding them: a woman, rugby ball in hand, striving for a “try.” A woman, defying proper decorum, if you accept the ad’s implication.
The No. 5 Virginia field hockey team captured two shutout wins this weekend at the Catamount Field Hockey Classic, keeping its undefeated season intact. The Cavaliers defeated Maine 2-0 Saturday and Vermont 7-0 Sunday.
The Virginia volleyball team competed in the Western Kentucky Invitational this weekend, falling to No. 21 Western Kentucky Friday and to UNLV and Ohio Saturday.
Virginia’s three-goal deficit ultimately proved too much to overcome as its furious late-game rally came up short in a 3-2 loss.
The No. 2 Virginia women’s soccer team gave Syracuse a rude welcome to the ACC Thursday, blanking the Orange 3-0 at Klöckner Stadium.
Men’s Soccer What: Virginia (1-2-0, 0-1-0 ACC) vs. Wake Forest (2-1-0, 1-0-0 ACC) Where: Winston-Salem, N.C. When: Friday, 7 p.m. The skinny: The Virginia men’s soccer team will make a second attempt for its first win of ACC conference play when it faces No.
With No. 32 Kentucky already a chasm ahead of the competition, the No. 16 Virginia women’s team fended off No.
Taquan Mizzell and Quin Blanding, former teammates at Bayside High School in Virginia Beach and the first five-star prospects to commit to the University since 2005, share a secret they believe will drastically alter the trajectory of a college football program.
