When the women's basketball team officially started practice Saturday, it also took the first step into one of the program's most important seasons to date. The Cavaliers have come to a proverbial fork in the road.
Four Virginia football players earned weekly honors from the ACC this week for their roles in the Cavaliers' 47-26 win over N.C.
After a disappointing loss to Clemson this weekend, the Virginia men's soccer team is eager to tackle Marshall tonight at 7 p.m.
Last season the Virginia volleyball team went 7-1 in its second run through the ACC competition, helping the Cavaliers take second place in the Conference.
Tiki Barber broke Virginia rushing records, earned a spot with the New York Giants and graduated with a degree from the Commerce School.
Last week, April Heinrichs announced that her Virginia women's soccer team stood on the threshold of greatness.
After dropping a surprising match to James Madison and a disappointing ACC loss to North Carolina, the Virginia women's field hockey team looks forward to its match versus Radford to try to reverse the streak tonight at University Hall Turf Field. "Radford should be a great opportunity for our team to get back on track, and hopefully we can come together and do that," Cav Coach Jessica Wilk said. The Cavs desperately need to get the wheels of their field hockey machine back on track as the team attempts to begin its final roll to postseason play.
Third-year tennis player Brian Vahaly lost yesterday to Stanford's K.J. Hippensteel 6-1, 6-3 in the finals of the 1999 Reebok/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Men's All-American Championships at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center at the University of Texas. Despite the loss, Vahaly is the first ACC player to reach the All-American final.
When the women's basketball team officially started practice Saturday, it also took the first step into one of the program's most important seasons to date. The Cavaliers have come to a proverbial fork in the road.
RALEIGH, N.C.--The Cavaliers entered Saturday's gridiron contest with N.C. State in dire need of a win and they knew it.
After dominating through a scoreless first half against Clemson at Klöckner Stadium, the Virginia men's soccer team suffered its fifth defeat of the season as the Tigers notched two goals in the closing minutes of the second half to post a 2-1 victory. The defeat marks the first time in nine years that Virginia (7-5-1, 1-3-1 ACC) has lost more then five games in a season.
Dan Ellis could think of only one place to escape the scathing boos and hisses that had cascaded down upon him just a few hours earlier in Virginia's first home loss to Duke since 1981: the library. Think again. "I was going to go study, and somebody flicked me off," the Cav quarterback said.
Coming off of a two-game winning streak, the Virginia field hockey team will face in-state rival James Madison tonight, at 7 p.m.
This semester of Virginia sports thus far has been just plain rough on Cav fans. The two usual focuses of success, the men's soccer and football teams, have had rollercoaster seasons.
Michelle Vizzuso, Virginia assistant field hockey coach and a New Jersey native, was named New Jersey's best field hockey player of the 20th century by the Newark Star-Ledger. Vizzuso has been a member of the United States National Team since 1994 and was the youngest member of the 1998 USA National Field Hockey Senior team that competed in the FIH World Cup in Amsterdam.
The Virginia football team is analyzing every aspect of its play following an overtime loss to Duke that dropped the team's record to .500, marking the first time the Cavs had lost back-to-back home games since 1992. "I don't think we showed up Saturday in the right frame of mind, and I think it took us a half to get going," Cavalier coach George Welsh said.
The Virginia field hockey team held Yale to only five shots and two penalty corners in a stingy defensive effort as it defeated the Bulldogs 5-0 Sunday. On the offensive side of the ball, second-year Jessica Coleman provided the firepower, knocking through consecutive penalty corners and dishing an assist on a Lorraine Vizzuso shot off a corner to establish a 3-0 lead going into the half.
After Saturday's catastrophic loss to Duke in double overtime, many people have written off any chance the Virginia football team has to maintain its streak of consecutive seven-win seasons. An article in the Roanoke Times Monday referred to the seven-win plateau as "the stated goal" of George Welsh and his squad.
In last weekend's heartbreaking 2-1 loss to N.C. State, Virginia defender and emotional leader Marshall Leonard must have been tired after nearly 90 minutes of draining play.
For my four years here at the University, I've defended college athletes. "College athletics are a positive institution at colleges across the United States," I used to say.
