Nine months and one day removed from that 1-0 defeat at the 2014 College Cup final in Boca Raton, Fla., the now-No. 1 Cavaliers head out west with a 3-0 record in 2015.
Friday evening under a blue-grey sky, the Virginia women’s soccer team starters took the pitch, eager to defend their historic 33-game home-winning streak.
The Skinny on weekend games for Virginia’s field hockey, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball teams.
The second-ranked Cavaliers (1-0, 0-0 ACC) throttled UNC Wilmington 8-0 to kickoff their regular-season campaign before a rowdy home crowd.
After 24 years in the collegiate ranks, Virginia women’s soccer coach Steve Swanson knows storybook endings come only so often.
If the Virginia women’s soccer team were Superman, Florida State would be its Kryptonite.
This weekend, Virginia had the chance to move into the Elite Eight, and the battle-tested Cavaliers leapt at the opportunity.
In the Cavaliers’ first home game in two weeks, they put on quite the display for the 1,745 fans in attendance, tallying their highest goal total thus far this season and extending their program-record 27-game home winning streak.
The No. 2 Virginia women’s soccer team opened ACC play Saturday night against a reeling Miami team desperate for its first conference road win since 2012. The Cavaliers, meanwhile, were looking to extend a program record 24-game home winning streak and notch their 39th straight win against a non-ranked opponent.
After an impressive performance in this weekend’s Virginia Nike Soccer Classic, the second-ranked Virginia Cavaliers women’s soccer team is now 7-0 to start off the year for just the fourth time in team history.
The second-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team hosted Tennesee, Hosftra, Duke and Richmond in the 27th Virginia Nike Soccer Classic this weekend, looking to build on its strong early-season play and extend its program-record 21-game home winning streak.
Virginia looks to continue its strong play this weekend when it takes on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers (3-2) on Friday night at Klöckner Stadium–followed by a Sunday matinee against Hofstra (3-2)–in the Virginia Nike Soccer Classic.
After two strong preseason wins against Michigan State and VCU, the Virginia women’s soccer team opened its regular season campaign with a thoroughly dominant 3-0 win against the Marshall Thundering Herd (0-0-1) in the first-ever matchup between the two teams.
The leaves are changing, the students are returning, and the corner is draped in Cavalier orange and blue. Though many things change from year to year, one thing has stayed the same for Cavalier fans: a continuously successful women’s soccer team.
The Virginia women’s soccer team had a record-breaking 2013 season that resulted in an ACC Regular Season Championship and a trip to the NCAA Final Four. Despite facing one of the hardest schedules in the country, the Cavaliers posted 24 wins with an average margin of victory of nearly three goals.
The No. 1 and top-seeded Virginia women’s soccer team defeated Michigan Friday to earn a trip to the College Cup for the first time since 1991.
After dropping its first game of the season one week ago against in-state rival Virginia Tech, the top-seeded Virginia women’s soccer team got back to its winning ways Friday, trouncing Saint Francis in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 5-0.
After a sluggish start in the opening round of the ACC Tournament Sunday at Klöckner Stadium, the No. 1 Virginia women’s soccer team rebounded to roll past Maryland, 6-1.
The No. 1 Virginia women’s soccer team made history Thursday, becoming the first team in school history to open the season with 17 straight wins.
The Virginia women’s soccer roster is loaded with high-caliber talent, but the team’s unparalleled success is a product of more than just elite skill. Behind the scenes, coach Steve Swanson has helped pull the strings as Virginia marches ever-closer to the first perfect regular season slate in program history, and perhaps, the team’s first NCAA title.
