Roster turnover is inevitable in collegiate sports. Athletes have but four brief years to compete before moving on to larger and greater things. The Virginia men’s and women’s cross country teams are dealing with this harsh reality as they begin the 2013 season without several key contributors from past seasons.
The Virginia volleyball team’s first season under coach Dennis Hohenshelt last year was not an easy one. With effectively only 12 players available for much of the season — severely limiting depth at most positions — the team stumbled to a 9-22 record, and a dismal 3-17 in the ACC. However, the return of an injured veteran and the arrival of seven new players should allow the team to erase the bad memories of 2012 and become serious contenders in the conference.
Six freshmen and four sophomores started last year for the Cavaliers, and this year, with the team ranked 25th in the preseason NSCAA Coaches Poll, Virginia coach George Gelnovatch expects to rely on youth once more. For the on-the-cusp Cavaliers to take a step forward, Virginia’s sophomores must be anything but sophomoric.
The Virginia field hockey team enters the 2013 season coming off a roller coaster ride of an offseason, including the loss of a pair of perennially dominant players, the addition of a slew of new faces and a realigned ACC that makes the most powerful conference in college field hockey more imposing than ever.
The No. 7 Virginia women’s soccer team (2-0) kicked off its season in dominant fashion this weekend, winning both of its games and the Klöckner Classic tournament.
The “make or break” label that has been placed on the program by some seems to be incongruent with the state of Cavalier football. London’s seat is certainly getting warmer, but to invoke the words Mark Twain, the reports of London’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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Depending on your perspective, the Virginia women’s lacrosse team’s 2013 season could be deemed disappointing, encouraging or both.
The scene seemed to be lifted directly from the hit comedy “Dodgeball,” when Ben Stiller’s character White Goodman appears to knock out Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) to win the Las Vegas dodgeball tournament.
Throughout the season, coach Brian O’Connor predicted that the Cavalier baseball team’s torrid pace would not be sustainable.
After playing in 10 games as a true freshman in 2011, David Watford was relegated to the sidelines in 2012, forced to listen through a headset as his team stumbled to a disappointing 4-8 finish.
After stumbling out of the gates to a disappointing 3-6 record, the Virginia women’s tennis team dominated in ACC regular season play to finish the season as the nation’s 15th-ranked squad.
After turning a Virginia football team that suffered three consecutive losing seasons into a bowl-eligible 8-5 team in just his second year on Grounds, coach Mike London seemed primed to push his success even further in 2012.
Though apparently never scribbled on the cultural cave wall of Youtube, I swear the following commercial aired in the primitive times of the early 2000s. A keg-bellied, body-painted, hirsute parody of a fan at a college football game declares he’d forfeit his soul for a championship.
Coach Mike London revealed Monday at the ACC Kickoff in Greensboro, N.C. that Watford will be the team’s top quarterback entering camp. Redshirt freshman Greyson Lambert will compete for the starting job as well and a starter will be named in early August.
Football associate Mike Eilbacher and Sports Editor Daniel Weltz provide blog updates from the two-day ACC Kickoff in Greensboro, N.C.
Virginia announced Wednesday that combo guard Taylor Barnette, a rising sophomore guard for the men’s basketball team, will transfer to seek more playing time and a larger share of the responsibilities at another school. “Taylor has informed me that he has decided to transfer from our program,” head coach Tony Bennett said.
Former University of Houston women’s swimming coach Augie Busch has been chosen to replace Mark Bernardino as the head coach of the Virginia swimming and diving program, according to an announcement made by athletic director Craig Littlepage Wednesday morning.
After a 35-year tenure in which he transformed the Virginia men’s and women’s swim and dive program into perennial juggernauts, head coach Mark Bernardino announced his retirement in a statement released by Virginia Monday afternoon.
Virginia sophomore forward Mike Tobey emerged from a hyper-talented pool of prospective players to earn one of twelve spots on the United States U-19 men’s basketball team, which will head to Prague in the Czech Republic for the FIBA U-19 World Championships next week.
