When the No. 7 Virginia women's lacrosse team (11-3) hosts Loyola College (12-1) tomorrow night at 7, they'll be facing more than just the No.
After rain postponed a scheduled Wednesday afternoon matchup, Virginia split a doubleheader with Radford yesterday. The Cavalier defense struggled mentally in the first game, allowing several Highlander runs on errors. In the bottom of the fifth, junior Jenn Wynn nailed a three-run homer to left field, allowing the Cavaliers to gain the lead, 7-5.
The women's rowing team has won the past four ACC rowing championships and will attempt to keep that streak alive, when the fifth tournament is held Saturday on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, S.C. Virginia's first varsity eight team is ranked sixth in the nation and should get its toughest competition from Duke, whose first varsity eight is ranked 20th.
Typically, defending national champions do not find themselves at the bottom of their conference standings.
Virginia's track and field teams will take part in the ACC outdoor championships in Chapel Hill today and tomorrow.
The last 12 months in the world of golf have been all about firsts. Annika Sorenstam tees it up for the first time in a PGA Tour event in May 2003.
According to ESPN.com, the Pac-10 has placed University of Washington on a year-long probation after charging Washington with gambling violations and improper recruitment.
Three Virginia scholar-athletes were honored Tuesday as recipients of the Atlantic Coast Conference's 2004 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship.
Despite having led his team to its highest ranking and biggest win in school history, men's tennis coach Brian Boland is not yet satisfied.
This weekend the No. 54 Virginia women's tennis team (11-11, 2-6 ACC) will travel to Raleigh, N.C.
The No. 7 Virginia women's lacrosse team started off relatively slowly on offense, but used a run of seven unanswered goals during the second part of the first half and beginning of the second half yesterday to defeat No.
When I took over this column space, I knew what role I was supposed to fill. I was a female sportswriter, an enlightened young college woman, a former high school athlete and a benefactor of Title IX: this was my space to trumpet women's athletics at Virginia.
University of Connecticut guard Ben Gordon told ESPN.com that he will enter the NBA draft in June instead of staying with the national champion Huskies for his senior year. Gordon led his team in points with a 18.5 per game average and averaged 21.2 in the NCAA tournament.
Guard Elton Brown and tight end Heath Miller were named to the 2004 "Playboy" All-America Football team.
Generally speaking, the warm-ups for a national tournament are not the ideal time to learn something new.
The Virginia men's tennis team is ranked No. 10 this week, their highest ranking in team history and first ever in the national Top Ten.
Four fans. 13 games. 4,834 miles. One amazing amount of dedication to Virginia football. Meet second-years Hampton Conly, Lee Puckett, Dave Weiss and Christina Stegner.
It has been quite some time since Virginia had a week off. Due to this week's incessant downpour, the women's lacrosse game against George Mason was moved from last night to 4 p.m.
Coming off a three-game sweep of ACC powerhouse Clemson over the weekend, Virginia's baseball team looks to add to their season-long nine-game winning streak as they travel to Virginia Tech tonight to play one game against the Hokies. Having already matched their previous highs in conference and overall wins, Virginia has taken over first place in the ACC for the first time this season and is reaching heights never before achieved.
The midseason team meeting that rejuvenates and refocuses the team has almost become a cliché in the sports world.
