Before the opening draw control Wednesday evening against Virginia Tech, the Virginia women’s lacrosse team’s six seniors—attacker Caroline McTiernan, midfielders Annie Thomas and Erin Laschinger, defenders Megan Dunleavy and Lelan Bailey, and goalkeeper Kim Kolarik—stood with their parents on the grass of Klöckner Stadium.
Virginia men’s lacrosse coach Dom Starsia is on the verge of another historic season, though not in the way anyone intended.
After extending their ACC win streak to triple digits last weekend, the Virginia tennis team is aiming for another milestone: an undefeated regular season.
The Virginia track and field team will be traveling to Raleigh Thursday to compete in the ACC Outdoor Championships.
The No. 8 Virginia baseball team entered last Wednesday with a 30-3 record, overpowering its competition and tearing through the ACC. One week later, the Cavaliers have doubled that loss total, dropping three of their last four games against Radford and No. 15 Georgia Tech. Wednesday, they look to right the ship against Old Dominion at Davenport Field.
Wednesday evening, the No. 16 Virginia women’s lacrosse team will take the field at Klöckner Stadium for its final game of the regular season.
At 2:44 p.m. Monday, Deadspin tweeted out a headline to a story that read: “How an Achilles Tear Affects NBA Players (or why Kobe Bryant is screwed).”
Virginia senior captain Jarmere Jenkins was named the ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week Tuesday, after leading the No. 1 Cavaliers (19-0, 8-0 ACC) to a pair of conference victories last weekend against No. 24 Clemson and Georgia Tech.
Currently in the midst of a six-game losing streak, the longest single-season streak for the program since 1939, the Cavaliers sit at 5-7 and winless in the ACC, needing to defeat Bellarmine and win the ACC Tournament to finish above .500 and have a prayer at making the NCAA Tournament.
The Virginia softball team battled conference foe Florida State this weekend in Tallahassee, dropping all three contests by scores of 3-2, 10-2, and 2-0. In the first half of the Sunday doubleheader, the Cavaliers (18-22, 3-12 ACC) fell by one run in eight innings.
After opening the weekend with two prolific offensive outbursts, the No. 1 North Carolina baseball team shut out Virginia Tech 3-0 Sunday to complete the sweep and tighten its stranglehold on ACC supremacy.
As yet another semester draws to a close, teachers naturally ramp up the workload in an attempt to make sure they cover all their material by the time finals roll around.
As soon as the curtain closed on a surprisingly successful 2012-13 Virginia men’s basketball season, the team and its supporters turned their attention eagerly to next season, when the team was initially expected to return all starters except for senior point guard Jontel Evans and add a slew of talented contributors.
A Curry School Dean and several Virginia students who ran in Monday’s Boston Marathon are safe after two bombs exploded simultaneously at the finish line just before 3 p.m. .
The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team reached its milestone 100th consecutive ACC victory Friday with a 7-0 shutout against No. 25 Clemson, and then continued the streak with a 6-1 victory against Georgia Tech Saturday in Charlottesville.
The No. 17 Virginia women’s tennis team stretched its winning streak to six matches Saturday against No. 19 Georgia Tech in Atlanta before falling to No. 14 Clemson Sunday in South Carolina.
The No. 5 Virginia baseball team’s trip to Atlanta ended with an unfamiliar result Sunday as No. 17 Georgia Tech took the rubber match to hand the Cavaliers their first ACC series loss this season.
Leading 13-9 midway through the third quarter in a must-win game, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team looked poised to halt its five-game skid against No. 7 Duke at Koskinen Stadium. However, the Blue Devils would take control of the high-scoring contest late in the game, using a 10-1 run to come away with a 19-16 victory in both teams’ final regular season conference game.
Johns Hopkins freshman attacker Jenna Reifler unleashed what proved to be the deciding goal with 19.5 seconds remaining in a game the Cavaliers had described as a “must-win.”
I understand that it’s the job of compliance divisions at every college campus to monitor what we athletes do and make sure we aren’t getting into trouble. However, they should not revoke our freedom of speech just because we are student-athletes.
