If you're looking for a tough-nosed club sport, look no further than the Virginia men's ice hockey club.
Following their dramatic win over Clemson, the Cavaliers (10-1-0, 3-1-1 ACC) will look for another victory tonight when they take on Liberty (4-4). Saturday's game was a pivotal one for the Cavaliers.
Over the weekend, goalkeeper Kendall McBrearty traveled with the rest of the Virginia womens' lacrosse team to her high school alma mater. Saint Steven and Saint Agnes High school in Alexandria, Virginia held the inaugural Stars and Stripes exhibition series.
While Virginia coach Steve Swanson says he cannot recall an injury-free season during his career, this season the womens' soccer team seems particularly plagued by them. Soccer, which never fails to pit players against one another in midair head-to-head combat, has a reputation for producing season-ending injuries.
By Barney Breen-Portnoy Cavalier Daily Senior Associate Editor DURHAM -- Thanks to a dominant defensive effort, Virginia halted its two-game losing skid Saturday with a 37-0 victory over Duke at Wallace Wade Stadium. "We're happy for the players that they have something to really be pleased with themselves about," Virginia coach Al Groh said.
Virginia, at least briefly, halted the downward trajectory of its season Saturday by beating down a wretched Duke squad 37-0, in a game that was about as tedious to watch as anything on C-SPAN. You haven't seen a terrible football team play until you've attended a Duke game, and you haven't seen a pathetic football atmosphere until you've spent a Saturday afternoon at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham.
By Ben Gibson Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Freshman midfielder Jonathan Villanueva could not have picked a better time to score his first goal of the year. In the 76th minute, sophomore forward Yannick Reyering found Villanueva with a long ball from midfield.
Tiki and Ronde Barber make me sick. I'm serious. I just had to pop a couple Tylenol after typing their names.
After losing 24-7 to a solid Georgia Tech team last Thursday, the Cavaliers head down to Durham, N.C.
Following last night's draw in Tallahassee, Fla., the Virginia women's soccer team heads even farther south Sunday to take on the Miami Hurricanes. Virginia embarked on the season's first conference road trip with a 2-0-0 ACC record, marking the fourth consecutive year the Cavaliers have defeated their first two conference opponents. "It was great to get these [wins] under our belt at home before we head[ed] out on the road to Florida," sophomore Jen Redmond said. In their two previous away games, the Cavaliers fell in overtime to the Tennessee Lady Volunteers, 1-0, and tied the West Virginia Mountaineers, 1-1. The Hurricanes are 6-3-0 on the season but just 0-2-0 in the ACC following a pair of losses at the hands of N.C.
The Cavaliers will not get any chance to recover from a tough weekend when they play the top-ranked Maryland Terrapins tonight.
The Cavaliers (11-1, 4-1 ACC) head to College Park to play Maryland (7-4, 0-2 ACC) Saturday, the second match of a four-match road trip. The team has won their last four matches, all of them against ACC opponents; they defeated North Carolina, N.C.
After a narrow defeat at the hands of ACC foe North Carolina last Saturday, the Virginia men's soccer team would have liked to bounce back with a decisive win against the American Eagles.
With one minute left in regulation, sophomore forward Yannick Reyering yelled in frustration as he was fouled at midfield.
The Virginia women's soccer team faces a significant challenge Thursday as they travel to Florida State for their first ACC road game.
Like so many other parents of college students, my mom is in the process of getting rid of my childhood toys, games and videos.
Coming off their win over Virginia Tech Tuesday night, the Cavaliers (10-3, 3-1 ACC) must quickly return to the task at hand.
With one minute left in regulation, sophomore forward Yannick Reyering yelled in frustration as he was fouled at midfield.
For the last three years in Charlottesville, a debate has raged about the culture and traditions of Virginia football. This debate was spurred by coach Al Groh's request that fans wear orange shirts, rather than ties and sundresses, to football games. Bear with me here, because I have a confession. I went to the Virginia Tech game last Saturday. Yep, I donned neutral colors, woke up at 6 a.m., sat in the sixth row and watched the Hokies squeak by Cincinnati. I had a good time seeing again how they do things down there. Now give me a few more words before you fold up the paper and put it under your chair thinking this is another "Virginia Tech football is better than we are because its culture is a better football culture" article. I have never been able to discern that a difference in dress code added up to a substandard football tradition. At Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, every fan wears maroon and burnt orange on game day. When I go to a Virginia football game, I don't wear a shirt and tie. I have no problem with people who do; in fact, most of my friends choose to don their Sunday best on Saturday afternoon. If that is what Virginia's football tradition is, then by all means, go ahead. In imploring that fans wear orange, Groh was attempting to combat his perception of apathy in the Virginia fan base. The implication, however, was that fans in orange are more supportive, and ultimately more knowledgeable, than fans in ties and sundresses. The first problem with that was that fans took offense to the suggestion. The second was the implication that Groh connected a fan's support for the program to their attire, inherently dividing the fan base. Virginia football is at a crossroads on the field this year -- a situation very different from Virginia Tech. Off the field, I believe that Groh had it wrong in 2003 when he tried to peg apathy on the culture of football in Charlottesville, asking fans to wear orange to support the Cavaliers. Virginia's traditions were a little different but not definitively apathetic. Just like any other program, when things were going well, Virginia fans charged into the stadium two hours early. Just like any other program, when the team is struggling, Virginia fans come to games later and later. By bringing the issue of dress code to the forefront three years ago, Groh not only divided the fan base but implied that if Virginia fans would just put their ties and sundresses back into the closet in favor of orange shirts, the team would be all the better for it. I'm not so sure about that. For three years, Virginia fans have battled an inferiority complex and tried to decide if their football traditions were good enough to be those of a "big time" football program. Many fans effectively told the coach that they would wear orange but only as long as the team was winning. The problem now is that the team is not winning, and one of the program's primary traditions was undermined by its head coach three years ago. Saturday, I heard some of the same commentary from frustrated fans in Blacksburg that I had heard in Charlottesville during the last few weeks. "We need a quarterback change." "Our playcalling sucks." "I'm not sure about this coaching staff." I didn't hear any debate, however, about traditions or stadium attire. Virginia Tech, like many other programs, developed their traditions as a way to define themselves as a college football program. And now that they have decided who they are, Hokie fans never question "the way they do things" and neither does coach Frank Beamer. In Charlottesville for the last three years, Virginia fans and their coach have done exactly that. Virginia Tech fans instead debate their team, not their culture.
After being convincingly beat on the road by Virginia Tech a mere 11 days ago, Virginia had only revenge on their minds last night.
