Last week, Virginia's athletic program got its best news of the summer. No, it wasn't another award for women's lacrosse or another preseason top 25 football ranking.
The Cavaliers and mid-major heavyweight Gonzaga have contracted to play a two-game series against each other. In the 2005-06 season Virginia will travel to Spokane, Wash., to take on the Bulldogs while Gonzaga will come to Charlottesville the following season.
After three days of talks last week with Auburn about their vacant head coaching position, Virginia baseball coach Brian O'Connor withdrew his name from consideration from the job on Friday. In his first year at the helm, O'Connor masterfully led the Cavaliers to a 44-15 season, a second-place finish in the ACC and a school record 18 conference victories, including five three-game sweeps.
Soccer is different from every other sport on earth, both professionally and on the amateur level.
Virginia third baseman Ryan Zimmerman was one of 22 players to be named to the final roster of the USA Baseball National Team Monday.
There is an old adage in football that says the coach's job is never done. Virginia head coach Al Groh and his staff having taken that maxim to heart this summer by amassing the nation's largest recruiting class -- for 2005.
Since when did the NBA Draft become so much like the NHL Draft? Foreign players, guys straight out of high school, athletes with little concept of typical American English.
Every year before the college football season commences, every sports magazine, Web site or other form of sports media puts out a pre-season poll.
Five years ago, Beth Oppenheimer could easily predict the result of each Virginia women's club ultimate frisbee contest before it was played.
Men's basketball starting point guard T.J. Bannister was found not guilty of disorderly conduct Monday in Charlottesville General District Court. The rising sophomore, who earned a starting position at the end of last season, was arrested along with six other people after fights broke out near Beta Bridge after a large fraternity party on April 18. Bannister will likely battle incoming freshman Sean Singletary for the starting point guard position next season.
Arguably Virginia's best baseball player of all time is now a Tri-City Dust Devil. And quite happy about it. Two weeks ago, graduate Joe Koshansky was drafted in the sixth round of the Major League Baseball amateur draft following his senior campaign at Virginia that earned him honors such as third-team All-American and ACC Player of the Year.
The similarities between the Virginia men's and women's tennis program do not appear to extend much further than the sport they play. The men's team is led by Brian Boland, whose three-year tenure at Virginia is in the mere stages of infancy compared to the 22 seasons women's coach Phil Rogers has been on the job. Extending past the coaching discrepancy is the recent performance of each club.
After weeks of searching, men's basketball coach Pete Gillen finally completed the two vacancies on his staff by hiring John Fitzpatrick as an assistant coach and Mark Byington as director of basketball operations. Fitzpatrick spent the last four seasons at the University of Houston, the last two as associate coach.
Not nausea, not injury; neither a double team nor a triple team can stop her. She's tough, she's quick and she's tenacious.
ELMONT, N.Y. -- History is bigger than you, it's bigger than me and it's certainly bigger than Smarty Jones.
The Cavaliers will travel to Chicago to take on Northwestern in this year's ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
For the second consecutive season in which she's been in competition, javelin thrower Inge Jorgensen earned all American honors, taking eighth place with a throw of 161 feet, 6 inches at the NCAA Championships Friday in Austin, Texas.
I was named after my father, the third to his junior. But I've never gone by that name except for tax purposes.
It was about a week before the NCAA Championships, and something was just not right with Virginia's Varsity Four Crew. The quartet of talented rowers, who all happened to be freshmen, were nagging each other during practice, and their inner-boat rivalry was reaching a head.
As a team, the Virginia women's rowing team placed sixth at the NCAA Championships at Rancho Cordova, Ca., May 30, but the Varsity Four boat won the NCAA title in their event, edging out Washington by three seconds. Virginia's championship boat was made up of four freshman rowers: Kerry Maher, Renee Albers, Libby McCann and Ashley Jones.
