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Promise high for Cavs despite lack of depth

As its season opens, the Virginia women's soccer team finds itself plagued by injuries, short two of its best players and barely able to field an eleven-person squad. Enthusiasm, though, is not in short supply. "Maybe it's because all of these challenges we have in front of us already, but I can't remember a season I have been more excited for," coach Steve Swanson said. In the exhibition games against Notre Dame and Michigan, Virginia only had 12 field players.


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A kink in the rebuilding plans?

Note: Even though Jameel Sewell is currently injured after mauling his foot in the first-ever documented stationary bicycle accident, I still think this is a discussion we should be having.


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SPORTS IN BRIEF

Football practice opens Friday With the Sept. 2 season opener at Pittsburgh now less than a month away, the Virginia football team starts summer training camp Friday.


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Virginia picked to finish fourth in Coastal Division

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- With football season little more than a month away and practices starting next week, the Atlantic Coast Conference held its annual media Kickoff event Sunday through Tuesday at the Sawgrass Marriott in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.Sunday, the media voted in the pre-season poll and results were released early Monday afternoon.


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The world's a stage for QB Olsen

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- As both a drama major and a quarterback who has spent the past four years as a backup at both Notre Dame and Virginia, senior Christian Olsen knows something about being an understudy.


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