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Must Read: Fitting Finale for Wright at JPJ Jeff White, VirginiaSports.com With 28.1 seconds left, after Monica Wright scored her final point at John Paul Jones Arena, the horn sounded, and fans rose to their feet. Into the game came Jayna Hartig, and out went Wright, and they hugged as applause filled the arena. Wright then hugged UVa coach Debbie Ryan before working her way down the bench, embracing assistants, teammates and support staffers. "If you were to paint a picture of a basketball player," Ryan told reporters later, "this is the person that you would paint. You would paint Monica Wright, because she just has all the right stuff on both sides of the ledger." The ACC and NCAA women's basketball tournaments await Wright, so her college career isn't over. But she'll never again play for the Wahoos at JPJ, the scene of so many spectacular performances by the program's all-time leading scorer (2,474 points and counting). ... The win also locked up the No. 3 seed and a first-round bye in the ACC tournament for the Cavaliers (9-5, 21-8). Read the full article here.
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This Week In Recruiting Football recruiting A big day is ahead for Virginia football recruiting. Sunday night was a big night, though, as head coach Mike London and the Virginia football program hosted about 50 to 60 recruits. Dinwiddie (VA) duo Corey Marshall and Chris Hall were in attendance Sunday night. Marshall, a 6-1, 255-pound defensive lineman, has been offered by UVa. Hall, a 6-4, 225-pound quarterback/athlete, has not been offered but is drawing serious interest. We'll catch up with both prospects, who also visited Virginia Tech on Saturday. Owings Mills (MD) offensive tackle Donovan Smith was also scheduled to visit Virginia Tech and Virginia over the weekend. Stay tuned for a feature profile on the 6-6, 260-pound junior, who has been officially offered by the Cavaliers and eight other FBS programs. We'll check in on other visitors from Sunday night's event but also look ahead to this Saturday, when Virginia will host another junior day. Some top prospects are scheduled to attend. Those with a Virginia offer already in hand include Green Run (Virginia Beach, VA) defensive tackle David Dean, Manchester (Midlothian, VA) offensive lineman Jake Goins, Kempsville (Virginia Beach, VA) linebacker Travis Hughes, Phoebus (Hampton, VA) linebacker Caleb Taylor and Ocean Lakes (Virginia Beach, VA) quarterback/athlete Lafonte Thourogood. Reportedly, top WR/DB recruit Darius Jennings (Gilman School in MD) plans to be in attendance as well. We'll post a list of confirmed visitors later in the week on the EDGE. Basketball recruiting For G K.T. Harrell, F/C James Johnson and F Akil Mitchell, it's time to look forward to being Cavaliers. Harrell's Brewbaker Tech (Montgomery, AL) squad and Mitchell's Charlotte Christian (N.C.) squad fell in respective State Championship games over the weekend, while Johnson's Elsinore (Wildomar, CA) squad fell in the state semifinals last Friday night. We hope to catch up with all three players this week to reflect on the 2009/2010 season and look ahead to the 2010/2011 season, when they will be true freshmen at the University of Virginia. For G/F Joe Harris and F Will Regan, the high school season continues. Lake Chelan (WA) captured a District 6/7 Championship on Saturday, defeating Freeman 70-56. The 6-6, 200-pound Harris led the way, scoring 36 points and hauling down 11 boards in the win. Up next is a state playoff match-up against Vashon, which features Stanford center recruit John Gage. Nichols School (Buffalo, N.Y.) defeated Canisius in the finals of the Manhattan Cup and will now move on to the state playoffs in March.
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 ...
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Blog Banter: Hoosfootball.com Tackles The 90's After putting together an all-decade team for the 2000's, hoosfootball.com has shifted the focus to the 90's and the best UVa players from that decade. Some picks were obvious. Shawn Moore and Chris Slade, for instance, easily made the cut. But what about running back? Pick two: Terry Kirby, Thomas Jones or Tiki Barber? Who makes it? Take a look at the all-decade picks and then share your thoughts on The Sabre message boards! Keep up with more Hoo news on The Good Ol Blog!
Virginia Wins 13th Conference Championship UVa Athletics Media Relations, Official Release The Virginia men's swimming and diving team won its third consecutive and 13th overall Atlantic Coast Conference title and junior Scot Robison was tabbed the meet's most valuable swimmer Saturday at Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Cavaliers finished with 806 points en route to its 11th title in the last 12 years. Virginia claimed first-place honors in eight events, including four of the five relays. "I'm really proud of the team," said coach Mark Bernardino. "To come into this facility and swim against a team that was as ready and on fire as North Carolina was. I think we took their best shot. I am really proud of them. It is not easy to win a championship in any sport and to think that we've won 11 in the last 12 years and to keep the focus and avoid the complacency that can go with success, that says a lot about our swimmers." Robison, a native of Charlotte, N.C., won three individual events over the course of the meet: the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle and set ACC and meet records in both the 100 and 200 free races. He was also a member of all four of UVa's winning relay teams. It marks the third consecutive year a Cavalier has been named the most valuable swimmer of the championships; classmate Matt McLean earned the award in 2008 and 2009. "He has a deep-rooted desire, not just in the ACC, but hopefully to be one of the best in the world," said Bernardino about Robison. "We'll see how he does in this next step. At the NCAA Championships he will be one of the favorites in a couple of events. So we'll see if he is up to facing the pressure of competing against so many Olympians from so many different countries. He's a very special young man. We're lucky he is on our side." Robison defended his title in the 100 free, finishing with a mark of 42.58. Earlier in the day, he set a league and meet record in the event with a prelim time of 42.42, both NCAA 'B' standards. Teammate Peter Geissinger also picked up all-conference honors with his third-place performance, finishing in 43.61. "The team championship means more to me than that (MVP)," Robison said. "I'm flattered that the coaches would select me for that. I worked really hard this season and I'm glad it is paying off. "This championship means a lot because in 2007 Virginia came in here and finished second to Florida State. I wasn't on the team then, but I was here and I saw the looks on those guys faces and saw how disappointed they were. To have the past three years like we have, to come back in this building and kind of avenge that loss and have a complete redo of it is amazing." Read the full news release here.
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Issue No. 254 - Aug. 14, 2006 Post of the Week
Subject: I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I had visitors but like I said I was pretty much out of it until Olsen, Deyon, Hamilton, and Fontel all came in to see me. I tryed my hardest to jump out of bed but it didnt work and I couldn't talk. They said a prayer with me and then Hamilton said "I heard you were going to the PITT game" and I nodded yes, he then said "we're going take care of them for you, I promise." Like Kris said everyone is quick to criticize athletes but things like this that they do goes completely overlooked. These guys dropped what they were doing and rushed to the hospital. Thanks a whole lot to everyone for the thoughts and prayers and especially to Kris and HOOSWILD for arranging for the players to come visit me, you guys have no idea how much that lifted my spirits. I've still got a lot of healing an rehab ahead of me but I'm here and that's all that matters!
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