Highlighted by a record-breaking handful of freshmen throwers, the up-and-coming Virginia track and field team is looking to showcase its young and talented squad in the ACC Outdoor Championships, which start today and run through Saturday. The Cavalier squad, two-thirds of which are freshmen or sophomores, has been maturing all season.
The Virginia baseball team looks to improve on its seventh-place standing in the ACC in its three-game series against North Carolina this weekend. The Cavs (17-23-1, 5-10 ACC) lost Wednesday to Virginia Tech in a 10-inning heartbreaker.
As they head to Atlanta today for their respective ACC Tournaments, the Virginia tennis teams face uphill battles in their challenges to the conference throne.
A week after locking up a strong six-player recruiting class, Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan yesterday rewarded the man primarily responsible for those signings, promoting assistant coach Shawn Campbell to associate head coach. Campbell has been with the Cavalier program for 15 years and focuses on the team's recruiting and scouting. "Shawn has been a top assistant in the country over the last decade," Ryan said in a press release.
BLACKSBURG-The Virginia baseball program has a long rivalry with the Hokies of Virginia Tech, but the Cavs 7-6 loss in Blacksburg yesterday might go down as one of the most bizarre meetings yet. After fighting their way back from four runs down to send the game into extra innings, the Cavaliers (17-23-1, 5-10 ACC) suffered a 10th-inning meltdown to lose their fifth game in a row. Cav pitcher Alexander Starr opened the bottom of the 10th by walking the first batter.
Yesterday's matchup with in-state rival George Mason would have been important for the Virginia women's lacrosse team no matter where it came on the schedule.
He had me at hello. Okay, maybe not that quickly, but certainly at goodbye. Just minutes after discovering via cell phone that the Washington Redskins were investing a mighty chunk of their future in him, wildly-athletic, often hyperactive Penn State linebacker LaVar Arrington stepped behind a Madison Square Garden podium and faced the media for the first time as a professional. As Arrington proudly sauntered to the front of the room, I stood close enough to the man to take his pulse.
The Virginia men's tennis team (14-5, 6-2 ACC) has garnered the fourth seed in the ACC Men's Tennis Championship, which will be held April 20-23 in Norcross, Ga.
While Virginia men's coach Pete Gillen sweats out the final month of college basketball recruiting, Cavalier women's coach Debbie Ryan can rest easy.
Cavalier basketball fans tend to look on former Virginia coach Jeff Jones with mixed feelings. On the one hand, he led Virginia to five NCAA Tournament berths and the 1992 NIT title.
The sisters are back together. A native of Baltimore, Md., where the locals bleed lacrosse, Lacey Aumiller picked up her first stick in the fourth grade.
The Virginia baseball team looks to rectify its icy four game losing streak with today's game against a fiery James Madison squad at 3 p.m.
After watching four of their former teammates get selected in the 2000 NFL draft, six of the other seven available Virginia players signed with NFL teams as free agents. Defensive lineman Maurice Anderson and offensive lineman Noel LaMontagne signed yesterday, while tight end Casey Crawford signed Sunday night.
This weekend, I was one of the few hundred media types privileged enough to obtain credentials for NFL Draft 2000.
In a press conference yesterday, American University Director of Athletics Lee McElroy announced that former Virginia men's basketball coach Jeff Jones has signed a five-year contract to coach the Eagles. Jones, who served as an associate head coach at Rhode Island this season, coached the Cavaliers from 1990-98.
NEW YORK-Shortly after NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced Courtney Brown as Cleveland's selection with the No.
As the finishing touches are being applied to Scott Stadium, the Virginia football team's makeover continued Friday night at Klöckner Stadium in the annual spring game.
The Virginia women's and men's track and field teams had no problems wowing the home crowd with impressive first- and second-place team finishes at the Lou Onesty/Milton G.
NEW YORK-He wasn't the first running back chosen, but that didn't make Thomas Jones' selection any less sweet. A long road came to an end for the senior tailback Saturday when the Arizona Cardinals selected him seventh overall in the 2000 NFL Draft. "It feels really good to have all that stuff over," Jones said.
The Virginia men's tennis team split its matches against the ACC's top two teams this weekend by falling to No.
