Drew Dillman is a staff writer and X account manager on the sports desk. He is a fourth-year College student, majoring in history. Drew is from North Little Rock, Ark., and he enjoys writing game recaps. Outside of The Cavalier Daily, Drew is president of Shakespeare on the Lawn, a classical theater group at the University.
In the Cavaliers’ first contest under the Friday night lights since the trajectory-altering win against Florida State last season, Virginia faces the FCS-level Spartans (1-1, 0-0 MEAC) of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
While there is some evidence to believe the hype may be warranted, there are also reasons to cool one’s jets in favor of a more measured response.
On a hot and humid first day of September, the song of the same name by Earth, Wind & Fire played over the loudspeaker during pre-match warm-ups. The lyrics of that song go “Dancin’ in September,” and the Cavaliers (1-1, 0-0 ACC) had reason to by the end of the night, winning in four sets against Liberty (2-2, 0-0 Conference USA), 25-17, 26-24, 25-9 and 25-18.
The Cavaliers spent their offseason improving their craft in wood-bat summer baseball leagues.
When the Cavaliers take the field at Scott Stadium this season, they will do so with the burden of real expectations on their backs.
The Cavaliers are looking to repeat their successes from the previous year despite a new team and a new schedule.
In the future, will the hiring of Cassese be looked back on as a success, or as a rash decision that could torpedo a season — or worse, an era?
Although the names below are not an exhaustive list of the exploits of Cavaliers in Major League Baseball, the players mentioned have distinguished themselves over the course of the season.
Monday, Chris Feifs was named the associate head coach and defensive coordinator for Virginia men’s lacrosse. The arrival of Feifs marks the first choice at the assistant coach level under Coach Kevin Cassese’s leadership of the Cavaliers.
“[Next season] we can be more surgical in our approach to really filling needs around the good young players that are here and the good young players that are coming in,” Pollard said. “[We can] really be in a position when we hit the ground running in the fall, to have so much more continuity in terms of player development.”
