Department: Sports

Surprise of a Lifetime
Winter 2008

From PKs to FGs
Yannick Reyering (Col ’09) grew up in Germany kicking a round ball into a net. When he came to UVA, he had the same focus—and he put the ball into the net 39 times in a three-year career that included multiple All-ACC honors.
Winter 2008

Pitched Battle
Winter 2008

Tall Order
With Sean Singletary and Sharneé Zoll providing leadership and fireworks for UVA’s basketball teams, last season could easily have been characterized as the Year of the Guards. Both players have gone on to the ranks of professional basketball, so now the Cavaliers will look to the front court for more points and power this season.
Winter 2008

Sports Shorts
Dawn Staley becomes head women's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, Angela Hucles qualifies for the Summer Olympics, and other stories.
Fall 2008

Making Sport of Water
Such is the appeal of water sports—dancing on the thin line between two elements, riding on surface tension, moving faster on water than legs can travel on land.
Fall 2008

Basketball Beats Ballet
The world of ballet might be a better place if Debbie Ryan (Grad ’77) had made a different choice as a child, but the world of basketball would be poorer.
Fall 2008

Fountain of Youth
This year, a bumper crop of talented young players—eight in all, including two from the Netherlands—makes the odds good for a threepeat.
Fall 2008

A Tackle to Remember
Dombrowski also became pretty good at football. He played a central role in UVA’s success in the 1980s, including Virginia’s first bowl game, a 27-24 victory over Purdue in the 1984 Peach Bowl.
Fall 2008

No Country for Slow Players
Becky Sauerbrunn (Col ’08) will remember her first international soccer match for all the right reasons—and one she’d just as soon forget.
Fall 2008

An Olympic First
Cromer (Col ’02, Grad ’03) was an All-American at UVA, and visions of standing on the winners’ podium at the Olympics bring a smile to her face.
Summer 2008

Twenty-five Love
Few things in sports rank up there with an undefeated season. Except, maybe, having hometown fans set an attendance record in the process.
Summer 2008

Hoopla for Singletary
He became the fifth Cavalier to score 2,000 points (2,062), and he is the only player in ACC history to have 2,000 career points, 500 career assists, 400 career rebounds and 200 career steals.
Summer 2008

Having a Ball
Prum began playing professional paintball—where two teams play capture-the-flag by shooting at each other on a battlefield of inflated bunkers—his second year at UVA. After graduating, he plans to move to San Diego to work for KEE Action Sports, one of his team’s sponsors.
Summer 2008

Top of Their Game
They have no coaches. They have little money. And they have no adequate University practice facilities. But the men’s and women’s squash teams at UVA have lots of spunk and talent, judging from national championships they brought home from a tournament at Harvard in February.
Summer 2008

Giving Back with Sacks
Patrick Kerney has a job with a simple description—get the quarterback.
Summer 2008

Right Place, Right Time
Freed has to play the role of mentor and psychologist, and on occasion she has to trot out to the circle and talk to a Cavalier pitcher, even though she hated when coaches did that to her as a player.
Summer 2008

No Balking at Relief
It comes as little surprise that O’Leary would tackle an issue like Katrina relief with such energy. She played volleyball at UVA as a first- and second-year, then joined the softball team. She saw time as a pitcher early in her career before becoming a full-time outfielder.
Summer 2008

Big Shot
Spring 2008

Looking Ahead
Spring 2008

Hard Times, Hard Play
Spring 2008

Raising the Bar
Spring 2008

Long on Talent
Spring 2008

Sports Shorts
Spring 2008

A Slice of Life
Spring 2008