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Devvarman Keeps On Winning Recent Virginia graduate Somdev Devvarman continued his winning ways in professional tennis this past weekend, taking the singles championship at the Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships in Kentucky. He didn't lose his serve and ousted Robert Kendrick 6-3, 6-3 for the title. Devvarman entered the event unseeded, but remained unbeaten as a pro. He has climbed to No. 345 in the world despite playing just a few short weeks in the pro tennis ranks. Read more from The Kentucky Herald-Leader in Sabre NewsLink, your everyday source for Virginia news!) Of course, winning is nothing new to Devvarman. The two-time NCAA Singles Champion ended his Cavalier career on a school-record 36-match winning streak, last losing in the fall of 2007. Overall, he posted a record of 44-1 in this final year at Virginia and tasted defeat just six times in his final two years when he was 88-6. Devvarman is entered in the $100,000 Vancouver Challenger that begins this week.
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This Week In Recruiting Laroy Reynolds' commitment gives the University of Virginia 19 verbal commitments for the 2009 class. Head coach Al Groh has indicated previously that the staff does not plan to take a full allotment - each Division 1A program may only enroll 25 players in a given class - but I believe UVa would go all the way to 25 if the right players wanted to come aboard. Concord (Wilmington, DE) WR Justin Brown, Latin (Charlotte, N.C.) WR/CB Ross Cockrell, Brooke Point (Stafford, VA) DE/OLB Lanford Collins, Dartmouth (MA) TE/DE Arthur Fontaine, Good Counsel (Wheaton, MD) LB Jelani Jenkins, Trinity (Camp Hill, PA) OL Nick Kindler, Hun School (Princeton, N.J.) DE Anthony LaLota, Meadowbrook (Richmond, VA) OL Morgan Moses, St. Xavier (Cincinnati, OH) DE Pat Muldoon, Henry Clay (Lexington, KY) OL Samuel Simpson, Oscar Smith (Chesapeake, VA) WR Tim Smith, Brookville (Lynchburg, VA) TE/ATH Logan Thomas, St. John's (Washington, D.C.) OL Peter White, Catholic Memorial (Roxbury, MA) OL/DL Brennan Williams, and Woodbridge (VA) running back De'antwan Williams are among the top remaining targets for the Cavaliers. In terms of position, offensive line is the biggest remaining need and I expect the staff to try to land two more offensive linemen before this class is finished. Do not be surprised if some new offers go out at the position, especially in September, after high schools have gotten several games in. One of those lineman the staff will monitor closely early on in the 2008 season is Brookville's Devin Bolling, a 6-5, 265-pound prospect. We'll have more on Bolling, as well as the latest on top rising senior star Logan Thomas and top rising junior star Zack McCray. Yes ... Brookville is a very talented team. We also hope to reach St. Xavier (Cincinnati, OH) defensive end Pat Muldoon, who reportedly has narrowed his list to four schools including Virginia. Muldoon made an unofficial visit to UVa earlier this month and was very impressed with the way head coach Al Groh handled the visit. Speaking of visits, UVa is one of a handful of schools Concord (Wilmington, DE) wide receiver Justin Brown expects to visit soon. We'll check in on Justin for more this week as well. In Reynolds, Virginia scored a 6-1, 207-pound prospect who could potentially play wide receiver, safety or linebacker on the college level. He is a do-everything performer at Maury High School (Norfolk, VA), where he earned all-Eastern District honors at wide receiver and utility last season as a junior. Initially, Reynolds projects as a wide receiver or safety. But, if he gets bigger physically as Maury head coach John Quinerly expects, Laroy could end up at linebacker at Virginia. Frankly, I feel that may fit him best, but we'll have to see. Reynolds' commitment also gives Virginia another commitment from the famed Tidewater region. The Cavaliers now have three Tidewater commits in this class, including Reynolds, Phoebus safety/outside linebacker LoVante' Battle, and Oscar Smith star defensive back recruit Perry Jones. Virginia remains in hot pursuit of another top Tidewater target in Oscar Smith's Tim Smith, who was featured last week on the EDGE (see links below). Eleven of UVa's 19 commitments hail from the state of Virginia.
Chris Horne, our resident recruiting expert, provides updates throughout the week for Edge subscribers about UVa's commitments and recruiting targets in football and men's basketball. To sign up for an Edge subscription, please check out the Sabre Edge Sign Up and Information Page. If you're already on board as an Edge subscriber, click the links below to catch up on recruiting. Sabre Edge recruiting updates from the past week ...
Q&A: Centreville OL Commit Luke Bowanko
UVa Lands Another Tidewater Gridiron Commit
More on UVa PG Commit Jontel Evans More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...
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Meet the Team Day Set for Aug. 10
Virginia Athletic Media Relations The Virginia football team will hold its popular "Meet the Team Day" this year on Sunday, Aug. 10. Cavalier fans will have the chance to interact with the players on Virginia's 2008 squad and head coach Al Groh. Meet the Team Day takes place at the Carl Smith Center, home of David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium. Players will be available for photos and autographs from 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Gates to the stadium open at 2 p.m.
Olympic Connections
Virginia Athletic Media Relations Nine individuals with connections to University of Virginia athletics are headed to China for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The group traveling to Beijing includes six former Cavalier varsity student-athletes, one incoming student-athlete, a current Virginia coach and a former club sport participant at UVa. The former Cavalier student-athletes competing at the games include Angela Hucles (women's soccer), Melanie Kok (women's rowing), Vanja Rogulj (men's swimming), Ruby Rojas (softball), and Lindsay Shoop (women's rowing). In addition, former Cavalier basketball standout Dawn Staley is traveling to China as an assistant coach with the U.S. women's basketball team. Erika Stewart (incoming first year on the women's swimming team), Adam Nelson (graduate student at the Darden School of Business and a volunteer assistant coach with the UVa track and field team), and Wyatt Allen (a graduate of the University and former rower with the UVa men's rowing club team) will also compete in Beijing.
Blog Banter: 2007-2008 wrap up: Men's Tennis When a team doesn't lose very much, or ever, it's easy to do a recap: the men's tennis team won every single match-up except for its last one. Of course, we were all disappointed that the boys lost for the second year in a row to Georgia in the NCAA Championships (this time in the semifinals), but Somdev Devvarman provided a nice exclamation point to the year by winning a second national championship singles title - back-to-back. I'd say Somdev has cemented his place in the pantheon of Virginia athletics, no? Anyway, tons of hardware for him and the others in the details. And it's not giving much away to predict that these guys will be near or at the top of the rankings this year. Read the rest of this entry and find the links to previous wrap-ups too! Keep in touch with all the hot topics around Virginia athletics on The Good Ol' Blog.
Rob Mahini (Vandy-Hoo)
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Issue No. 200 - July 29, 2005 Post of the Week
Subject: We've come a long way... I remember when we could barely attract 25K on a Saturday afternoon in the mid 70s. Indeed, Sonny (Randle) days were not here again. For those who have only known the good times of UVa football as a result of what GW rebuilt, let's just say if the Sabre was around during the mid 70s I could only imagine how those posts would have read. Matt, Mike, and John would likely have to shut the site down because the majority of today's posters couldn't have handled what we dealt with back then. In '75, we were a one-point win over VMI from going winless for the season. How does 1-10 sound to you? This was a year that 3 different teams scored over 60 points on us, and one of those teams was Wake Forest. The next year, we distinguished ourselves with two sparkling wins over Wake and Lehigh by a combined 2 points. During a stretch that started in the 2nd game of '75 to the 7th game of '76 we lost 15 games in a row, with two one point wins over VMI and Wake on each side of the streak that prevented the losing run from being longer. By the way, we lost to VMI that year by 6. In '77, we lost at Texas by the score of 68-0 and not a single Longhorn starter played in the second half. This '77 UVa team was shut-out 5 TIMES that year and scored 7 or less points in all but 3 games and never produced more than 14 points in any single game. 1-9-1 was our record. In four football seasons from '74-'77 I saw just 8 wins COMBINED! Talk about not having much motivation to get out of bed for a early afternoon game!! This was how inept UVa football was before George Welsh took over from Dick Bestwick (who did a decent job for a few years prior to GW's arrival). And to be very frank, the 3-year stretch I highlighted above wasn't even the worst time block in our football history. We won one game from '58 through the '60 season, losing 28 in a row. Many in the media said when Welsh took over that no one could win consistently at UVa, GW did and Groh has continued it. The fact that UVa now averages almost 61,000 for each home game, breaks its season ticket sales every year, and has a home record attendance of over 63,000 (Miami '04) is almost unthinkable for those of us who remember some of those dark football days of the past. Groh has not achieved many of the goals he set forth when taking over the job in '01. However, he has energized this program like never before. When you consider where we were less than 30 years ago, it is simply amazing to watch what is now taking place on the field at Scott Stadium each fall.
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