One of women's soccer's youngest stars is one step closer to representing the United States at the 2002 FIFA Under-19 Women's World Championship, which will take place from August 17 to Sept.
While many of the students at Virginia are busy getting tans on any number of beaches, two Cavaliers were hard at work.
Maybe it's just me, but one of the attractions of sports is that it is supposed to be above societal concerns.
One of the greatest players to ever grace the Virginia football program is coming back to his alma mater this season.
As much as it seems like baseball's All-Star game shouldn't matter, there are times when it looks like the spectacle it was originally intended to be.
Imagine you are whisked away to the near future. It's the first week of November and you find yourself sitting in one of the 8,457 seats in University Hall.
[Insert 2002 playoff team name here] select . . . Roger Mason Jr. from the University of Virginia." This was supposed to be said by NBA commissioner David Stern at the podium of the 2002 NBA Draft.
After one of the best seasons in Virginia women's crew history, the Cavaliers received more good news at the end of last week, when former crew assistant coach Joel Furtek decided to return to the University to take over a vacant assistant coach position. Furtek took over the duties July 1 for program operations and assisting with the varsity crews.
It's that time of the year again, when Virginia men's lacrosse head coach Dom Starsia takes the time to name the recipients of the team awards for the 2002 lacrosse season. There was no surprise when Starsia announced there were co-winners of the Dr. Allen Voshell award for the team's most valuable player.
There will be a rematch of last year's fiasco on ice, when the Cavaliers head to East Lansing, Mich.
Former Virginia tennis standout Brian Vahaly did something that no other collegiate player from the 2001 season could achieve this week.
Last week, my roommate posed an interesting question to me: "Do you want to go to RFK to watch the United States-Germany game?" It was a tough call.
The Virginia women's basketball team finally has found a replacement for departed assistant coach Nikki Caldwell, who returned to Tennessee, her alma mater, earlier this month. Patrolling the sidelines alongside head coach Debbie Ryan as assistant this season will be former Richmond standout Daryl Oliver, who is coming to Virginia via Western Kentucky, where he was an assistant coach. Oliver helped the Hilltopper women to a 16-14 record and surprise second place finish in the Eastern Division of the Sun Belt conference.
Senior Virginia wrestler Josh Etu represented the University well, when he placed fourth in the 264 and a half pound/120 Kg class of the Greco-Roman competition during the 2002 World Team Trials Championship series in St.
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.
