Virginia Women Post Solid Weekend
Wednesday, September 01 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
The first two weekends of athletics at Virginia have been dominated by the women’s sports. Two weekends ago, on Friday, August 20th, the Virginia Women’s Soccer team defeated Liberty 4-0 at Klöckner Stadium. Two days later they posted another shutout, blasting Colgate 6-0, also at Klöckner. This past weekend continued a successful start for the women’s programs, as the Women’s Soccer, Field Hockey and Volleyball teams combined for a 6-0-1 record on the weekend. Let’s take a look: The Women’s Soccer team traveled to Penn State to compete in the Penn State Invitational. On Friday, they played to...
Big Weekend Starts Now
Wednesday, May 26 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
Two national championships and an ACC championship are on the line this weekend for the Cavaliers. Baseball is attempting to repeat as ACC champs, while rowing and men’s lacrosse are competing on the national stage. Let’s take a look: The Virginia baseball team has already gotten things going by beating Boston College 6-4 earlier today in the first game of the ACC Baseball Championships. The early games are pool play, with Florida State and Miami being the other two teams in our pool. The Cavaliers play Florida State tomorrow at 4pm and Miami on Saturday at noon. If we win our pool (which is a...
The NCAAs Come to Charlottesville (Carolina, Too)
Friday, May 14 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
If Foxfield weekend was a weekend all about ACC Championships, the weekend starting today is all about NCAA Championships. No national champions will be crowned this weekend, but there are a lot of NCAA Championship events occurring, specifically here in Charlottesville. There will be eight NCAA Championship contests held in Charlottesville this weekend and Cavalier teams will be competing in up to six of them. Toss in a baseball weekend series with the Tar Heels (who are fighting for that last slot in the ACC Championship later this month) and we’ve got a great sports weekend here in The Hook...
Jeff White Article on Championships
Monday, April 26 2010 by Tim - 3 comments
If you want to get a good feel for what it’s like to be a Virginia coach right now, check out Jeff’s article today . Virginia has already won one NCAA title -- in men's soccer -- and appears headed for its first top-5 finish in the Directors' Cup competition. And that, the Cavaliers' coaches say, has created an ideal working environment. "I think the kids [in different sports] feed off each other a little bit," Sauer said, and so do the coaches. "I would say it's a little uncommon," Starsia said. "I've been around here awhile, and there's a lot of camaraderie in the department...
Virginia Captures Three ACC Titles
Sunday, April 25 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
About 45 minutes ago, the final whistle blew at Byrd Stadium in College Park, MD ending the 2010 ACC Lacrosse Championships and the Virginia lacrosse team joined the rowing and men’s tennis teams as ACC Champions this weekend. Yesterday morning, the rowing team won all four races at the ACC Championships in Clemson, SC to claim their 10th ACC title. The rowing team has only not won the ACC title once in the 11 years of the event – coming in second to Clemson last year. The host Tigers came in second in all four races as Virginia got revenge for last year. Earlier today, the Virginia men’s tennis...
Six ACC Championships Up For Grabs This Weekend
Friday, April 23 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
The Atlantic Coast Conference is holding six ACC Championships this weekend, some of which have already started . Let’s take a brief look at each of them and how the Wahoos are likely to compete in each one: Women’s Tennis : I’ll start here, since this one already started . The women’s tennis championships are being held in Cary, NC starting yesterday and ending Sunday. The Cavaliers are the 6 seed and they defeated Boston College, the 11 seed, yesterday 4-0. They take on third-seeded Clemson today at 3pm. Duke, North Carolina and Miami round out the other top-four seeds in the tournament and the...
Virginia Stands in Fourth Place in Director’s Cup
Thursday, March 25 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
The first winter update of the NACDA Directors Cup standings was released today and Virginia fourth place overall with 518 points. Here’s a relevant chunk of the standings: Place Team Points 1 Stanford 559.00 2 Florida 548.00 3 Penn State 521.50 4 Virginia 518.00 5 Minnesota 487.75 7 North Carolina 454.50 8 Florida State 445.25 13 Maryland 373.00 18 Virginia Tech 342.50 35 Duke 280.50 The rest of the winter doesn’t look too great for us – we’ll point in Women’s Basketball and Men’s Swimming, but we’ll miss out on points in seven other sports – ones that other top 10 schools will get points in....
Attrition
Wednesday, March 24 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
So… it’s been an interesting couple of days for the revenue sports at Virginia. On Monday, we learned that Riko Smalls was leaving the football team and Tristan Spurlock was leaving the basketball team . Then yesterday, we learn that Sylven Landesberg is leaving the University . So which athletic team wants to step up next and have a player leave. Women’s Basketball? I think there’s some people over here itching for the coach to leave. Oh wait, that’s every year for the past dozen or so… Anyways, none of these moves are shockers. Folks have been saying for weeks that Spurlock might leave. I had...
More Photos: Lacrosse and Baseball
Saturday, March 20 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
I just posted more photos to the photo gallery . #1 Men’s Lacrosse vs. VMI and Vermont in two Tuesday night games, as well as last night’s match-up on the diamond between #1 Baseball and Boston College. Also, back by popular demand, is the panoramic shot. This time of Davenport Field. Night game + not a great camera means the shot wasn’t terrific. But it isn’t bad either: Click to see the (much) larger version...
Photo Gallery Update
Wednesday, March 10 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
I posted this all over TheSabre a couple days ago, but I just wanted to make sure it was noticed over here. I’ve posted seven photo galleries from four sports (Men’s and Women’s Basketball, Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse). As you can see, I took a little hiatus after the Soccer National Championship game, but hopefully the photo galleries will pick up. Here’s the links to the individual galleries: Men's Lacrosse vs Syracuse (3/7/2010) Men's Basketball vs Maryland (3/6/2010) Women's Basketball vs Virginia Tech (2/28/2010) Men's Basketball vs Duke (2/28/2010) Women's Lacrosse ...