Virginia swim team on verge of elite company
By Chip Knighton | March 6, 2002Last weekend, a Virginia men's sports team pulled off a monumental achievement. They did something that few Cavalier teams have ever done in the past.
Last weekend, a Virginia men's sports team pulled off a monumental achievement. They did something that few Cavalier teams have ever done in the past.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team faces Old Dominion today at 4 p.m. at Kl
One of the state's smaller baseball programs will take on the much larger Virginia club today, when the Cavaliers face Radford at the U.Va.
Virginia juniors Kiamesha Otey and Eliese Mitchell will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field championships.
If you would have told senior third baseman/pitcher Dan Street four years ago that he would be the staff ace his senior year, he probably would have laughed at you. "I wasn't a pitcher when I came to school," a smiling Street explained.
If you build it, Ray, they will come. They'll come to see $4 million worth of improvements that should transform a mere baseball field into a state-of-the-art park.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - With six seconds left in its ACC tournament semifinal game against Duke Sunday, the Virginia women's basketball team found itself in an unlikely situation.
The Virginia golf team opened their season last weekend at the Puerto Rico Classic, which concluded last Tuesday.
The Virginia men's swimming and diving team won its fourth consecutive swimming and diving championship this weekend in College Park, Md.
GREENSBORO, N.C.- Print the invitations - the unlikely recipients for March Madness are the Virginia Cavaliers. This past weekend, I saw the Virginia women's basketball team grow up right before my very eyes.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - In the first couple of minutes in the last game ever held at Cole Field House, the Virginia men's basketball team looked as if they would take the momentum from Thursday night's unbelievable win over Duke and spoil senior night for the Terrapin faithful.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The final game at Cole Field House was much like the first played at the storied arena.
This weekend, the Virginia softball team overcame inclement weather to win the Cavalier Classic with a perfect 4-0 record.
The Cavalier men's lacrosse team got a taste of the tough competition to come in their last-minute 15-13 loss to Syracuse in a chilling rain Saturday. "I thought it was a lost opportunity," Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.
When the No. 7 Virginia women's lacrosse team faced No. 10 Syracuse at home Saturday, it was the Orangewomen who came out firing, scoring two goals in the first four minutes of the game. Although the Cavaliers (1-1) bounced back and played a tight game, Virginia lacked the offensive urgency that Syracuse displayed and fell to the Orangewomen, 12-10. "Offensively we stood around and watched one person make it happen," Virginia coach Julie Myers said.
It seemed only appropriate that senior captain Dan Street ended the second game of a doubleheader in much the same fashion he had started the first game seven hours earlier Sunday. Street opened scoring in the first game, an 18-3 blowout, with a two-run home run in the first inning and ended the second game pitching the last four innings to secure a 5-1 victory.
As the Virginia men's basketball team headed into last night's game against No. 3 Duke, everyone knew that the writing was on the wall.
Senior swimmer Megan Roesch received the ACC's 2002 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Award along with 19 other student-athletes Wednesday.
Picked in the preseason to finish as low as eighth in the ACC, the Virginia women's basketball team has battled to a tie for third.
Up by 15 points with less than eight minutes left, the stage was set for No. 3 Duke to end the Cavaliers' senior night on a sour note. However, Cavalier senior Adam Hall made sure that the Blue Devils would not spoil the occasion.