Injuries can destroy a team's momentum, or they can force other players to step up into starting roles, making the team that much stronger in the stretch run.
Success in rowing is only found when the strokes of one teammate match those of every other person in the boat.
Great teams show great character in times of crisis. Although the Virginia men's tennis team has not yet attained greatness, it has definitely proved its resiliency. Virginia bounced back from a disappointing weekend to register a 5-2 victory over No.
The Virginia lacrosse team will try to erase the bad taste of its loss to Maryland as the squad travels to Chapel Hill Saturday to take on the No.
The approach. The crossover. The plant. The toss-up. It's not the formula for a drive to the hole in basketball.
The Virginia softball team took two games from the Towson Tigers in a day-night doubleheader on Tuesday.
Often in individual sports like golf or tennis, you hear stories of specialization at a young age, athletes being bred for success solely in that sport from youth.
It all started innocently enough: Three fourth-year sportswriters traveling to Chapel Hill for our last Virginia basketball game in the Dean Dome.
Cavalier assistant women's basketball coach Audra Smith accepted the head women's coaching job at the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Wednesday.
The year: 1993. The team: The Chicago Bulls. The man: Michael "Air" Jordan. The year: 2004. The team: The Virginia women's lacrosse squad.
The No. 5 Cavaliers started a bit tentatively last night, but had two separate spurts of three goals in under a minute en route to a convincing 17-6 victory over Old Dominion. Attacker Tyler Leachman led the charge with five goals, tying a season-high.
After the University of Connecticut men's basketball team won its second NCAA championship in six years, Jim Calhoun's Huskies joined the likes of Duke and Kentucky as one of the nation's elite programs.
After a not-so-sunny weekend saw Virginia record its first loss in the ACC this season, the No.
Former Virginia head football coach George Welsh became a member of the 2004 College Football Hall of Fame class yesterday with one other former coach and 12 Division I-A players.
No. 65 Virginia will take on the ACC-rival Maryland Terrapins in College Park today at 2:30 p.m. Both teams are coming off consecutive losses at the hands of No.
They may be young, but they came to compete. Six of the seven Cavaliers entered this inaugural season as true freshman with no collegiate experience, but they have achieved reasonable success in their first season.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Sometimes, it's the ugliest games that are the most fulfilling. In their only game of the year against William & Mary (21-9, 3-3 CAA), Virginia (26-7, 8-4 ACC) scored seven runs in the last three innings despite having just two hits after the third frame, and won their sixth in a row, 11-9.
Offense is pivotal to success in women's lacrosse, but defense is what wins close games and prevents the mortification associated with a blowout. Last season, the Virginia women's lacrosse team was led by an experienced defensive line, including two All-Americans -- redshirt senior Lauri Kenis and graduate student Tiffany Schummer. For the Cavaliers this season, the long sticks, though lacking some of the veteran leadership of last year, have provided prowess in the backfield to support the solid effort of the attack in leading the team to its current record (9-3, 2-1 ACC). The Cavalier defensive assault starts with sophomore midfielder Nikki Lieb, progresses with the trio of junior defenders Elizabeth Pinney, Ashley Dodson and Molly Urlock, and culminates with senior goalkeeper Andrea Pfeiffer in the cage. Pfeiffer, in her third year as a starter for the Cavaliers, boasts a 52 percent save percentage with 109 saves and only 99 goals allowed for a slim 8.72 goals against average.
This weekend the No. 12 men's tennis team came to a bump in the road -- and so did its doubles teams. Virginia only managed to win two of six doubles matches in its contests against No.
North Carolina basketball recruit JamesOn Curry pleaded guilty to drug charges in Alamance County court yesterday, according to ESPN.com.
