What are you doing Friday night? If you are anything like me, then this an absurd question, considering today is merely Wednesday, and Friday night is eons away.
One is a towering newcomer from Germany who sports a mohawk during games. The other is an articulate junior from Northern Virginia who led the Cavaliers in scoring with nine goals in 2004 and was named to the 2004 ACC All-Tournament team.
Imagine having to play a soccer match at Duke or North Carolina, with hostile crowds and heavy implications for the ACC regular season championship.
With Virginia clinging to a slim 24-19 lead, coach Al Groh put the game in the hands of redshirt freshman Cedric Peerman. The decision paid off for Groh and the rest of the Virginia football team.
Yesterday, the first shots of the Virginia golf season were made. And, if success is achieved as the Cavaliers intend, the season could continue through early June. With a regular season lasting nearly six months, both the men's and women's squads could ease into peak form by competing up until the ACC Championships in April.
Virginia's Katie Phillips scored twice for the Cavalier women's field hockey team in a 4-3 losing effort against Northwestern Sunday The aggressive Virginia offense outshot the Wildcats 25-15 and took more short corners (11-10). Despite the offense's superiority, the score remained tied at the end of regulation. After one scoreless overtime period in which the Cavs again outshot the Wildcats (6-5), Northwestern's Ellen Schlafly scored off a rebound in the 94th minute, ending the hard-fought contest at 4-3.
The University of Virginia field hockey team opened its weekend with an overtime loss against Central Michigan University Saturday. The Central Michigan Chippewas (2-2) scored on a shot corner in the first half for the first point of the game.
Every time fans leave a game early, my dad always asks, "Why do people stay at a viewing of the Titanic, even when they know the ship is still going to sink?" I could not help but reflect upon my Dad's wisdom in relation to the University of Virginia basketball program. The last three years at this fine University, I jumped onboard Virginia's version of the Titanic, which we will call the SS March Madness.
Virginia men's tennis player Somdev Devvarman defeated Dane Chuntraruk to advance to the final qualifying round of the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center USTA Pro Classic Sunday. Devvarman backed up his No.12 ITA collegiate ranking with a strong 6-2, 6-0 victory.
For 88 minutes it felt like déjà vu for the Virginia women's soccer team. Friday the Cavaliers lost a heartbreaker to Tennessee in the Virginia-hosted Nike Classic, despite dominating the game.
If a wise man had come down from a mountain onto the soccer field and said to the women's soccer team, "Beware the corner kick," then maybe Virginia would have been prepared.
Swingman Gary Forbes, expected to be a starter this year for Virginia, will leave the University and transfer to a school closer to his hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y., the Athletic Department announced Friday. "I just wanted to go somewhere close to home," Forbes said.
It was the tale of two halves for the Virginia men's soccer team Saturday night at Klöckner Stadium.
There were no brooms being used to clean up opponents from the course. On Saturday, however, both the Cavalier men's and women's first-place times did all the sweeping at the Virginia-hosted Lou Onesty Invitational. "I was thrilled with both groups," Virginia coach Jason Dunn said.
The Virginia men's soccer team (1-0-1) could not have asked for a better early-season test than what it experienced Sunday at UC-Santa Barbara.
When the runners on the men's and women's cross country teams toe the line in Saturday's Lou Onesty Invitational, they may view the season's first race as a tune-up for bigger meets later in the season.
It might not be obvious from the even record Virginia holds so far or the attitude of the team, but look a little closer and it's easy to see that, for the Virginia women's soccer team, the beginning of the season has been tough.
When a team suffers a letdown in a big game, the loss either can be debilitating or a source of inspiration.
Virginia's offense has just taken the field. The stadium is saturated with excitement as quarterback Marques Hagans barks his pre-snap routine.
When leaving the G. Rollie White Coliseum in College Station, Texas last weekend, the Virginia volleyball team had little to regret about its matches in the Texas A&M Tournament. Although the 1-2 record they brought back to Charlottesville with them says otherwise, the Cavaliers and coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton were satisfied with the team's overall performance.
