Let's pretend for just this moment that you are Major League Baseball. Oh, the horror. On one hand, you've got the filthy mess of a steroids controversy.
Virginia baseball player David Stone was named to the 2002 Virginia College Sports Information Directors Division I All-State baseball team as an honorable mention member.
The fledgling Virginia women's golf program has its first coach. Athletic director Craig Littlepage announced Tuesday the hiring of Jan Mann as head coach of the women's golf team. Mann has been the head coach for the UNC-Wilmington Seahawks for the past eight seasons and will inherit the task of building a program in the University's 25th intercollegiate sport, which begins competition in fall 2003.
Although the season ended earlier than they might have liked, the number of awards that the Virginia women's lacrosse team has won can't seem to come to an end.
I f you are like most Virginia fans, there is a good chance that you sat in front of a computer yesterday, staring at a screen that was full of message boards or various college basketball news Websites.
While the annual Major League Baseball draft usually is not a big spectacle for most sports fans across the country - unlike its sports brethren the NFL and NBA - it was a very important time for several players on Virginia's baseball team. On June 4 and 5, when baseball held its annual 50 round first-year player's draft, four Virginia team members received a call that some young men only dream about. Junior Robert Word was the first Cavalier to realize that dream, when he was picked in the 10th round - 293rd player overall - by the Florida Marlins.
The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association named four members of the Virginia women's first varsity eight crew to the All-South Region team for their accomplishments during the spring.
They couldn't believe their eyes. In what felt like a punch to the gut, the Virginia men's Lacrosse team stood speechless and watched as the Syracuse Orangemen celebrated their 12-11 win in double overtime of the NCAA tournament semifinal. In less than 20 minutes, the Cavaliers went from a feeling of elation, to complete and utter shock, as Syracuse reserve midfielder Tom Hardy shook off Virginia defender Nick Russo behind the goal, and jumped out front to fire a bouncing shot past goalie Tillman Johnson into the left side of the goal. The crowd of 23,123, most of which were Orangemen fans who traveled to nearby Piscataway, N.J., went into a frenzied roar, leaving the Cavaliers to wonder what went wrong. "I felt so bad for my team," Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.
Former University basketball star Rick Carlisle was named the National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year last month, after leading his Detroit Pistons to the playoffs and a Central Division title in his first year as head coach. The former Cavalier standout got off to a hot start at 14-6, before losing 13 of 16 games, which left many people wondering if the decision by General Manager Joe Dumars to hire him was the correct one.
A return trip to the NCAA tournament for the Virginia women's basketball team will have to come without one of the coaches that has graced the Cavalier sidelines for the past three seasons.
The Virginia women's crew team took third place at the Eastern Sprints on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J.
The preseason goal of the 2002 Virginia lacrosse team was to send exceptional seniors Conor Gill and Mark Koontz out in style with a return to national prominence by making a run at the national championship.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - If the drama in the ACC Tournament did not prove that Virginia was in the premiere women's lacrosse conference in the country, last Sunday's 14-13 overtime loss to North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament sure did. Seeking revenge from its loss in Charlottesville on March 23, the No.
Men's basketball coach Pete Gillen announced Wednesday that sophomore J.C. Mathis has asked for and will receive his immediate release from the Virginia program. While Mathis' future plans have not yet been announced, his departure marks the Virginia program's second transfer from Gillen's 2000-01 recruiting class.
At the start of the 2002 season, the outlook for the Virginia softball team appeared bright. Having lost only one player from the previous year, the Cavaliers returned with a well-balanced squad of seasoned players and fresh talent and a lineup that could produce scoring binges as well as deliver formidable defense.
A season full of ups and downs ended in a difficult fashion for Virginia men's and women's tennis, as both teams bowed out of the ACC tournament early, taking away a chance for postseason play. In seasons that produced both exciting wins and disappointing losses, both squads walked away believing that the future is bright for the Virginia tennis programs. In Virginia head coach Brian Boland's first full year at the helm of the men's program, progress was stressed from day one, especially after the loss of four seniors made success in the ACC seem difficult. Even with two freshmen pushed into the lineup, the Cavaliers played with heart and progressed in a way that Boland believes will set up terrific teams in years to come. "I am really proud of the way this team has played all season," Boland said.
The Virginia baseball team will hope to build upon its two-game winning streak when the Cavaliers open a three-game series on the road against No.
There were only two minutes left, two minutes of good defense, two minutes to the ACC Championship, two minutes until the No.
Virginia attackman John Christmas has been added as one of three "Players to Watch" on the list for the second annual Tewaaraton Trophy, the most prestigious award in college lacrosse.
The Virginia women's rowing team, which is ranked No. 1 in the NCAA South Division, is coming off a perfect showing at ACC championships last weekend winning both first varsity races and both second varsity races, as well as winning the first varisty four.
