Twenty-four track and field athletes traveled to Blacksburg for the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet on Feb. 6 and 7.
Select members of the Virginia track and field team competed in Boston, Massachusetts at the John Thomas Terrier Classic over the weekend. Many East Coast schools participated in both field and running events, but the Cavaliers only took part in the latter.
The Skinny on weekend competition for the Virginia indoor track and field, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s basketball and wrestling teams. A full preview for men’s basketball is available online and in Thursday’s issue of The Cavalier Daily.
Arriving in Lexington, Kentucky last Friday, the Cavalier track and field team understood the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet would be a test.
With a loss to Miami Wednesday night, Virginia fell to 0-3 on the road against ACC opponents, but the team hopes to bounce back against Georgia Tech at home, where the Cavaliers are 10-1 this season.
It was a tale of two teams Saturday at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana. The 17th-ranked Virginia women battled through adversity to claim 15th place while the 13th-ranked men, bogged down by a slow start, finished 21st.
Virginia cross country competes at the NCAA Championship meet this Saturday at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana.
For the second consecutive year, Virginia cross country will send both its men’s and women’s teams to the NCAA Championships.
A skinny on weekend competition for the cross country, wrestling, and swim and dive teams. Full previews for the men's basketball, women's basketball, volleyball and women's soccer weekend matchups are also available online.
Neither the 13th-ranked Virginia women nor the No. 13 Cavalier men produced the desired results, but the two teams survive to fight — and improve — at the Southeast Regional Championships as the top-four teams from each race advanced.
The Cavaliers will kick off the part of the year with real implications — the post-season — this Friday, with the ACC Championships also to be held at Panorama Farms. There, the Virginia men and women, both ranked No. 13 nationally, will battle with conference foes for ACC supremacy.
A look at this weekend's upcoming games in women's rowing, cross country and field hockey.
The 14th-ranked Virginia men’s cross country team squared off against an elite field at the Washington Invitational in Seattle, Washington and emerged unscathed in fourth place.
A brief look at Virginia men's soccer, field hockey, and men's cross country's weekend matchups.
The Cavaliers captured the title in both the men’s eight-kilometer and women’s six-kilometer races in the first weekend where points towards at-large bids to the NCAA Championship accrue.
A look ahead at this weekend’s biggest sporting events.
Virginia cross country opened its season with the UVa Duals at Panorama Farms on Friday. Both the men’s and women’s teams rested their starters for this early-year four-kilometer race, which allowed some young up-and-comers the chance to shine.
Virginia track and field wrapped up three days of competition at the ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships Saturday, with the Cavalier women finishing seventh with 60 points while the men placed eighth after collecting 53 points.
Just four weekends ago Virginia track and field began its outdoor season with the Virginia Cup in Charlottesville, but now the team already finds itself preparing for the start of the conference championships—such is the nature of track and field in the ACC. Beginning Thursday, the Cavaliers will compete for three days against their conference foes for this season’s title.
Saturday, Lannigan Field was the scene for a showdown between three of the nation’s finest public universities. Both the Virginia men’s and women’s track teams placed second in the tri-meet — a vast improvement from last year’s showing in Berkeley, Calif.
