Young rejoins Cavaliers as softball coach Virginia softball coach Cheryl Sprangel announced yesterday that Meg Young will be a graduate assistant coach for the Cavaliers. Young is pursuing a master's in physiology with a concentration in strength and conditioning after graduating from Virginia with a degree in Spanish in May 2001. Young was a standout Cavalier during her playing days.
The Virginia football team (1-1) hopes to prove history wrong when it travels to Clemson on Saturday for its first game in three weeks. Traditionally, No.
He stands 5-foot-11 and weighs in at 200 pounds. He can run and pass with remarkable ease. He bench-presses over 400 pounds - eighth highest on his team.
During the waning days of summer, some university students flock to the beaches for a few final days of fun and relaxation.
Virginia football coach Al Groh apologized yesterday for making an inconsiderate remark toward Arabs during the weekly ACC football coaches teleconference earlier in the day. "I am sorry if my remarks were insensitive," Groh said in a press release.
In its first home game of the season, Virginia field hockey handed previously unbeaten Richmond (5-1) a 2-0 loss yesterday night at University Hall Turf Field.
The National Football League made a grave mistake this past weekend. Canceling the football games on Sunday was a cop-out. Now, before you begin to protest that I'm being insensitive and say that the NFL did the right thing and showed the utmost respect to the dead, hear me out.
W hat's the first thing that comes to mind when you envision a 6-foot-7, 255-pound man holding a chain saw?
Florida State defensive end shot in back Seminole senior defensive end Eric Powell was shot in the right lower back early Sunday morning in Orlando in what appears to have been a confrontation with a robber.
The Virginia women's field hockey team will resume its regular season schedule tonight at Klockner Stadium against an undefeated Richmond squad that is off to its best start in school history.
America is a nation of speed and efficiency, invention and progression, industry and ingenuity. Most of all, it is a nation in motion, forging ahead, foot glued to the clutch beneath an "ain't nobody gonna take my pride, ain't nobody gonna hold me down, oh no ... I've got to keep on movin'" mantra. When the horse and buggy no longer sufficed, we cranked out a Model T.
Virginia football coach Al Groh said yesterday that taking three weeks off amid a time of tragedy is a very difficult thing to do, and that the Cavaliers (1-1) would welcome this weekend's game against No.
Beginning a new ACC season last night against Wake Forest, the No. 2 Virginia men's soccer team relied on a tried and true combination to post a 1-0 win.
Eight Wyoming runners killed in crash Eight University of Wyoming track and field and cross-country athletes were killed early Sunday morning in a two-car collision 17 miles south of Laramie, Wyo.
Athletics at Virginia are set to resume tonight with a pivotal men's soccer contest between ACC rivals.
The referee calls a corner. Mason White pushes the ball, Carrie Goodloe stops it and Jess Coleman hammers it into the goal with her favorite shot, a drag flick that goes airborne. Coleman wasn't always a power scoring field hockey forward.
Announcements this week that all University athletic events through this weekend would be canceled or postponed were met with approval from members of the athletic department and the University community. The University announced that all athletic events through this weekend would be postponed following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
To some, the postponement of the Virginia/Penn State football game scheduled for last night seemed like an appropriate measure in light of Tuesday's tragedy.
There's not a single doubt in my mind that the importance of sporting events in anyone's mind crumbled with the twin towers on Tuesday.
The ACC has decided that it's just not yet ready for sports yet. In the wake of Tuesday morning's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, ACC officials postponed all athletic events through Saturday.
