The Virginia men's swimming and diving team will be well represented at this weekend's NCAA Championships in Minneapolis.
As the Virginia football team kicks off spring practice, coach George Welsh said he anticipates junior tailback Antwoine Womack will return for the fall season. Womack, who will be sentenced tomorrow in Albemarle Country General District Court on a misdemeanor assault and battery charge, was arrested 13 months ago after an incident in which former University students Jonathan Dean and Cabral Thornton were assaulted. University Judiciary Committee charges against Womack were dropped prior to his trial, originally scheduled for Feb.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team has a tough couple weeks ahead of it as it faces off against five top 20 opponents.
Faced with the departure of ACC Player of the Year Tucker Radebaugh, the Virginia men's lacrosse team has had to look elsewhere for offense and leadership as it defends its 1999 national title.
After torching Boston College for a career-high 24 points Sunday and leading the Virginia women's basketball team to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in three years, Telisha Quarles sat before reporters and waved her right hand out in front of her, fanning it for the room to see. It was quite a night for Quarles, but even after sinking five three-pointers and playing all 40 minutes in her biggest game in Cavalier uniform, the hand was still on fire. "They noticed I had the hot hand, and I was going out there and shooting it," Quarles said.
The No. 3 Virginia women's lacrosse team faces a tough in-state challenge today when No. 20 William & Mary, coming off a tight overtime defeat, looks for redemption in Charlottesville.
Was I the only one who heard that loud sound of NCAA Tournament brackets tearing up into shreds Sunday night? With St.
In the Cleveland Collegiate Challenge, the men's golf team finished in second place, five shots ahead of Virginia Tech and seven shots behind Augusta State.
Adam Hall certainly had a good look at it. With one crossover dribble, the sophomore swingman was airborne, squared to the hoop for the three-pointer that would tie the game at 112 and give the Virginia men yet another gasp of air as they struggled to shake the exhausted but resilient Georgetown Hoyas in triple overtime. The shot was on line and very nearly went down, teasingly rattling around the rim before popping out with less than 20 seconds left.
Virginia 125-pounder Steve Garland reached the finals of the NCAA wrestling championships but lost 7-3 to second-seed Jeremy Hunter of Penn State Saturday in St.
It's been a long road back to the Sweet Sixteen for the Virginia women's basketball team. But what a fun ride it's been. After losing DeMya Walker and Monick Foote to graduation, most observers were already thinking of this year as a rebuilding season.
Relentless perimeter defense and clutch three-point shooting propelled the fourth-seeded Virginia women's basketball team into the third round of the NCAA Tournament with a 74-70 win over fifth-seeded Boston College Sunday night in University Hall before a crowd of 4,890. In winning their 15th straight home game, the Cavaliers (25-8) earned a date with top seed Tennessee in the Mideast Regional in Memphis, their first Sweet Sixteen appearance in three years.
In Mark Bernardino's 22-year tenure as Virginia swimming and diving coach, he has taken the Cavalier program to an unprecedented level of national prominence.
Seventeen days ago, all seemed right with the world for the Virginia basketball team: the Cavaliers had just roared back to defeat Maryland in overtime to finish off a 9-7 ACC season and earn a crucial 19th victory.
Over the course of the just-concluded season, the Cavalier perimeter defense developed into a more than formidable unit.
As the Virginia women's basketball team awaits an NCAA Tournament seed, freshman forward Schuye LaRue can distract herself with her new ACC Rookie of the Year award. LaRue, who earned All-ACC and All-Tournament second team honors this week, is the first Cavalier to be named the Conference's top freshman since Tora Suber in 1994. The D.C.
Forget Groundhog Day. I mean, who actually believes that some filthy, narcissistic rodent waking up from his deep slumber and looking for his shadow determines the length of winter?
The Cavaliers hope to ride the wave of Saturday's overtime upset of Maryland as they prepare for a first-round ACC Tournament matchup with N.C.
(This is part three in a three-part daily series on the Virginia men's basketball program under Coach Pete Gillen.) As they kick off the ACC Tournament tomorrow night against N.C.
HARRISONBURG-Playing in the beautiful March weather at Long Field/Mauck Stadium yesterday, the Virginia baseball team fell to a scorching James Madison squad that used a strong combination of speed and pitching to down the Cavs, 14-6. The win was the Dukes' fifth straight.
