The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams representing the

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, located in

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. The Cavaliers compete at the

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Division I level ( FBS for football), in the

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since 1953. Known simply as Virginia or UVA in sports media, the athletics program has twice won the Capital One Cup for men's sports (in 2015 and 2019) after leading the nation in overall athletic excellence in those years. The Cavaliers have regularly placed among the nation's Top 5 athletics programs. Virginia leads the ACC with 23 NCAA Championships in men's sports. The program has added 12 NCAA titles in women's sports for a grand total of 35 NCAA titles,

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overall in this major conference of fifteen programs. In "revenue sports", Virginia men's basketball won the NCAA tournament championship in 2019, won ACC tournaments in 1976, in 2014 and in 2018, and have finished first in the ACC standings 11 times.

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coach George Welsh retired with the most wins in ACC history (as of 2025, he places second) after leading Virginia football for nineteen years. Other prominent NCAA Championship winning programs include Virginia men's lacrosse (9 national titles including 7 NCAA Championships), Virginia men's soccer ( 7 NCAA Championships), Virginia men's tennis (159–0 ACC win streak from 2006 to 2016; 2013, 2022, 2023, and "three-peat" 2015–2017 NCAA Championships), and Virginia baseball (winners of the

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). Virginia women's

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has added two recent NCAA Championships (2010 and 2012) while Virginia women's lacrosse won NCAA Championships in 1991, 1993, and 2004. Women's cross country won repeat NCAA Championships in 1981 and 1982. Virginia men's lacrosse repeated in 2019 and 2021 (the 2020 session being cancelled due to COVID) and Virginia women's swimming and diving won the Cavaliers' most recent NCAA championships with a 2021–2025 "five-peat". Non-NCAA national championships include six national titles in indoor men's tennis, two

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titles in men's lacrosse, and one

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title in women's

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. UVA men's boxing was a leading collegiate program when

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was a major national sport in the first half of the 20th century, completing four consecutive undefeated seasons between 1932 and 1936, and winning an NCAA Championship in 1938. The Cavalier mascot represents a mounted swordsman, and there are crossed swords or

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s in the official logo. Another moniker, the " Wahoos", or "Hoos" for short, based on the university's rallying cry "Wah-hoo-wah!" is also commonly used. Though originally only used by the student body, both terms—“Wahoos” and “Hoos”—have come into widespread usage with the local media as well.

Origins and history

The school colors, adopted in 1888, are orange and navy blue. The athletic teams had previously worn grey and cardinal red but those colors did not show up very well on dirty football fields as the school was sporting its first team. A mass meeting of the student body was called, and a star player showed up wearing a navy blue and orange scarf he had brought back from a

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summer rowing expedition. The colors were chosen when another student pulled the scarf from the player's neck, waved it to the crowd and yelled: "How will this do?" (Exactly 100 years later in 1988, Oxford named their own American football club the "Cavaliers," and soon after the Virginia team adopted its "curved sabres" logo in 1994, the Oxford team followed suit.) The team's name was selected in reference to the historical

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of the

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said to have fled to the

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for protection.Michie, Ian
"The Virginia Cavalier"
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''. Retrieved 12 May 2024 Pop Lannigan was one of the "most noted athletic trainers in the East"''

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'', Henry Lannigan obituary,

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. Published December 26, 1930. during his tenure at Virginia from 1900 until his death in 1930. He came to the University of Virginia after previously serving as a trainer at

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for 14 years. During his early years at Virginia he founded the

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and college

programs, and in

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trained the "Arkansas Flash" James Rector to within six inches of winning the

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at the

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(with a time of 10.9 seconds) while still a UVA student. When

was a major collegiate sport, Virginia's teams boxed in Memorial Gymnasium and after Lannigan's sudden death managed to go undefeated for a six-year run between 1932 and 1937, winning the NCAA Championship in 1938. On December 4, 1953, the University of Virginia joined the

as the league's eighth member. Its men's basketball team won its first NCAA Championship in 2019. The baseball team won the College World Series in 2015 and has appeared in the CWS five times (2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2021). The men's lacrosse team has won nine national titles (1952, 1970, 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021), while the

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have claimed three (1991, 1993, 2004). The

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has twice been honored as ACC co-champions (1989 and 1995). The men's soccer team has won seven NCAA Championships, four consecutively (1989, 1991–1994, 2009, 2014). Women's swimming and diving won its first NCAA Championship in 2021 and repeated in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Women's cross country won national titles in 1981 and 1982. The men's

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team won NCAA Championships in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, and 2023. In both 2015 and 2019, the

and

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were honored for fielding the nation's top athletics programs for NCAA men's and women's sports, respectively, by virtue of winning the Capital One Cup.

Mascot

The team's eponymous

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, known informally as the Cav Man, is a fanciful depiction of a swashbuckling Virginia Cavalier as popularized in the Cavalier fiction of the

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, armed with a sword and dressed in an orange and navy cloak and

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Fight song

The Cavalier Song is the University of Virginia's fight song. The song was a result of a contest held in 1923 by the university. The Cavalier Song, with lyrics by Lawrence Haywood Lee, Jr., and music by Fulton Lewis, Jr., was selected as the winner. Generally the second half of the song is played during sporting events. The Good Ole Song dates to 1893 and, though not a fight song, is the de facto ''

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''. It is set to the music of

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and is sung after each victory in every sport, and after each touchdown in football.

Sports sponsored

Basketball

After partial funding from benefactor

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with naming rights,

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opened in the Fall of 2006 and is the current venue for the men's and women's basketball teams. JPJ is the largest ACC arena outside of major

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s and the fifth-largest (of 15) in the conference overall. The men's team won the NCAA Championship in 2019 and the women's team finished as Runners-Up in 1990. The men's program is one of only two (with Kentucky) to have earned a No. 1 seed in all four regions of the NCAA tournament. The Cavaliers have been ranked in the Top 5 of the AP Poll a total of 96 times in the past four decades, ranking the program 9th since 1980. In the 18-game era (2012–2019) of ACC play Virginia had four of the five teams to go 16–2 or better.Cavs' in league of their own in ACC
. Retrieved August 15, 2019. UVA was also the only ACC program to finish a season 17–1 (none went undefeated). Men's coach

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has won the prestigious

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three times, second only to legend

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Football

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sits across from the first-year dorms along Alderman Road and is home to the University of Virginia's football program. The press box at Scott Stadium was a gift from an alumnus in honor of Norton G. Pritchett, the admired athletic director at UVA from 1934 until his death in 1950. Funding from benefactor Hunter Smith created the foundation for the 320-piece Cavalier Marching Band in 2004, replacing the Virginia Pep Band at athletic events. The late Cavalier head coach George Welsh is a member of the

and retired as the winningest head coach in ACC history. The current head coach is Tony Elliott, who replaced

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in December 2021.

Baseball

With the departure of head coach Dennis Womack to the front office, the arrival of head coach Brian O'Connor from Notre Dame in 2004, and the opening of

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in 2002, the UVa baseball team experienced a rebirth. Since the inception of baseball at the university in 1889, the team has reached the NCAA baseball tournament nineteen times, once each of the past three decades (1972, 1985, 1996), but most recently fourteen years running (2004–2017) and again in 2021 and 2022. The 2009 season of the Cavaliers saw them through to the CWS (College World Series) with a 49-15-1 record. The team made a return trip to Omaha two years later in 2011, where they lost to eventual national champion South Carolina in the semi-final round. In 2014, the team made a third trip to the CWS, beat Ole Miss and TCU to advance to their first ever CWS finals, but lost the three-game series to Vanderbilt 2–1. The following year, both they and Vanderbilt returned to the CWS finals in a rematch. On June 24, 2015, Virginia won in three games for their first NCAA championship in baseball and the first ACC team to win since 1955.

Soccer

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is home to several successful programs, including Virginia men's and women's

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. More years than not, the University of Virginia fields one of the best squads in the country, and the program has, by far, the most successful history in the ultra-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference. Since ACC Tournament play began in 1987, Virginia has played in 21 out of 33 ACC Tournament championship matches, winning eleven ACC titles, to go with their seven NCAA tournament championships (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2009, 2014). Head Coach

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compiled a 295–58–32 record before leaving in 1995 to coach

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to their first two

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championship seasons, and later the

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to their best

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showing since 1930. The women's soccer team has produced three

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winners for the U.S. women's national team,

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(2015 and 2019)

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(2019) and

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(both

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and

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), and three Olympic gold medal winners, Sauerbrunn (

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(

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

and

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

), and Sonnett (

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Lacrosse

The men's and women's lacrosse teams play their home games at

, or occasionally Turf Field or

. The men's program has won nine national championships (two pre-NCAA titles in 1952 and 1970 and seven NCAA titles in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

and

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

) and the women's program has won three

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(in

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

, and

). The 2006 lacrosse season was noteworthy for the men's team as it established the best record in NCAA history with a perfect 17–0 season en route to winning the 2006 national championship. On the season, the team won its games by an average of more than eight goals per game and drew comparisons to some of the best lacrosse teams of all time. Senior attackman Matt Ward won the

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as the nation's best player, was selected as a First Team

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and the

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, and was named the Final Four

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. He also broke the record for the most goals in the NCAA tournament with 16 goals (previously held by

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with 15). Eight Cavaliers were named All-Americans—three on the First Team, three on the Second Team, and two on the Third Team. Five Cavaliers were selected in the 2006

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Collegiate Draft. Matt Ward, Kyle Dixon, and Michael Culver were selected in the first round,

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in the second, and J.J. Morrissey in the third. On March 28, 2009, the men's team played in the longest game in the history of NCAA Division I lacrosse—a 10–9 victory over

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in seven

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periods.

Softball

The Cavaliers softball team began play in 1980. The team has made two NCAA tournament appearances in 2010 and 2024. The current head coach is Joanna Hardin.

Squash

On June 30, 2017, Virginia promoted their men's and women's club squash teams to varsity status. In doing so, the Cavaliers became the first

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program to sponsor men's squash, and only the second Power Five women's team (after

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). In only their 3rd varsity season the men's team finished 5th in the country and won the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference championship.

Swimming and diving

The women's swimming and diving team won the NCAA Championship in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and again in 2025. The men's swimming and diving team has won 16 ACC championships and the women's team has won 21.

Tennis

The men's tennis team rose to prominence in the 21st century under coach Brian Boland. The team won its first ACC regular season and tournament championships in 2004 and lost to Southern California in the NCAA final in 2011 and 2012. Behind standouts

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and Alex Domijan, the team won its first NCAA championship in 2013, defeating UCLA in the finals. The Cavaliers won three consecutive NCAA championships from 2015 to 2017, defeating Oklahoma for the first two and North Carolina for the third. Virginia added back to back NCAA titles in 2022 and 2023, defeating Kentucky and Ohio State in the final matches, respectively. Virginia also won the ITA national indoor tennis championship in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Several Virginia players have won individual national championships.

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won in 2007 and 2008, while

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won in 2015 and

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won in 2017.

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won the NCAA doubles championship in 2009 (with

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) and 2010 (with Drew Courtney), and Jenkins and Mac Styslinger won the doubles title in 2013. On the women's side,

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won the NCAA singles championship in 2014 and 2016, and

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won in 2021. The teams won the ACC Tournament in 2014 and 2015.

Cross country

The men's and women's cross country teams race at Panorama Farms, located six miles from Grounds at the University of Virginia. It was the site of the 2006 and 2007 ACC Cross Country Championships. The men's team dates back to 1954 when they placed 4th at the ACC championships. The women's team won the NCAA national championships in 1981 and 1982 and won the ACC championships in 1982 and in 2015.

Golf

Dixon Brooke won the NCAA Golf Championship in 1940. Several golfers have played professionally on the

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including

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Ben Kohles {{Infobox golfer , name = Ben Kohles , image = , image_size = , caption = , fullname = , nickname = , birth_date = {{Birth date and age, 1990, 2, 24 , birth_place ...

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, and Denny McCarthy. From the women's team, recent players on the

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have included

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and

Elizabeth Szokol Elizabeth Nicole Szokol (born June 17, 1995) is an American professional golfer and LPGA Tour member. Early life, college and amateur career Szokol grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. An injury-prone athlete, she experienced her fi ...

Wrestling

The first University of Virginia head coach was Bobby Mainfort, back in 1921. Former Cavalier All-American Steve Garland has been the head wrestling coach at Virginia since the 2006–2007 season. Garland is the winner of the 2010 ACC Coach of the Year Award. In the 2009–2010 wrestling season Garland led the Cavaliers to 1st place in the ACC and a 15th-place finish at the NCAA championships. Virginia won its fifth ACC title in 2015. The wrestling team has produced four ACC runners-up during its program history. Thanks to an anonymous donation of $1.5 million, Memorial Gymnasium received a full renovation in 2005.

Notable non-varsity sports

Rugby

Virginia rugby competes in Division 1 in the

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, which is composed of schools mostly from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Virginia also competes in the annual Atlantic Coast Invitational tournament, which Virginia won in 2008. Virginia also participates in an annual rivalry match against

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for the Commonwealth Shield. Virginia finished second in the ACI tournament in 2011, and again finished second in the 2012 ACI sevens tournament, losing to rival Virginia Tech by 33–31, and secured a place at the 2012

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Men's rowing

Men's rowing has won the

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national championship in 2011 and 2012. The national championship was canceled in 2021, but the biggest teams still raced at an unofficial championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Men’s rowing won this competition.

Leadership

From 2001 until 2017, the athletic director was

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, a former men's basketball head coach at the

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and

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, who has held a variety of coaching and administrative titles at the University of Virginia. Following his retirement, former

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deputy athletic director Carla Williams was named as his replacement.

Athletics apparel sponsorships

During the 1990s, the football team's uniforms were provided by

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and

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, before

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took over those responsibilities. During the early 2000s, the men's basketball team was outfitted by

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, making them just one of four teams in the nation to wear that brand and making the Cavaliers their de facto flagship program (much like Oregon's relationship with Nike and Maryland's relationship with

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. In 2004, the basketball team joined the rest of their Cavalier brethren in wearing Nike. In 2015, UVA renewed their Nike commitment, signing a 10-year, $35 million deal that includes bonuses for nationally successful finishes in football, basketball, soccer, and lacrosse. The $3.5 million a year deal is the second-most lucrative Nike deal in the ACC after Florida State, and fourth overall behind North Carolina's deal with

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and Notre Dame's with Under Armour. As of 2018, 24 of the 27 UVA sports teams are outfitted by Nike. One exception is the national powerhouse baseball program that currently serves as the flagship school for

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. The others are the nationally relevant men's and women's swimming and diving programs that are currently outfitted by Arena USA.

Radio network affiliates

Virginia Sports Radio Network Affiliates
WINA and WWWV are the network flagship stations. Affiliates broadcast football and men's basketball games, as well as a live coach's show for the in-season sport on Monday evenings. WKLV, WRAR and WWWV do not carry the coach's show. Richmond's WRVA is a 50,000-watt

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, bringing the Cavaliers' nighttime games to most of the eastern half of North America. The network additionally produces selected baseball, women's basketball, and lacrosse games for broadcast on WINA and Internet streaming.

Championships

NCAA team championships

Virginia teams have won 35 NCAA Championships. *Men's (23) **

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(1): 2015 **

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(1): 2019 **

Boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

(1): 1938 **

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

(7): 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021 **

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(7): 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2009, 2014 **

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(6): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023 *Women's (12) ** Cross Country (2): 1981, 1982 **

(3): 1991, 1993, 2004 **

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(2): 2010, 2012 ** Swimming and Diving (5): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 *see also: ** ACC NCAA team championships **

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Other national team championships

Below are 9 national team titles that were not awarded by the NCAA: * Men's **Lacrosse (2): 1952, 1970 **Indoor Tennis (6): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017 *Women's: **

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(1): 1981 *see also: **

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Individual national championships

*Men's Tennis **

, singles, 2017 **

, singles, 2015 **

, singles, 2008 **Somdev Devvarman, singles, 2007 **

and Mac Styslinger, doubles, 2013 ** Drew Courtney and

, doubles, 2010 **

and Michael Shabaz, doubles, 2009 *Men's Golf **Dixon Brooke, 1940 *Men's Track **Shane Cohen, outdoor 800 meters, 2024 **Jordan Scott, indoor triple jump, 2019 **Henry Wynne, indoor mile, 2016 ** Filip Mihaljevic, outdoor discus, 2017 **Filip Mihaljevic, outdoor shot put, 2017 **Filip Mihaljevic, outdoor shot put, 2016 **

Robby Andrews Robert Adrian Andrews (born March 29, 1991) is an American middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 and 1500 meters. While competing with University of Virginia he won the men's 800 meters at the 2011 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Fie ...

, indoor 800 meters, 2010 **

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, indoor 800 meters, 1989 **Paul Ereng, outdoor 800 meters, 1988 and 1989 *Men's Swimming & Diving **

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, 500-yard Freestyle, 2011 ** Ed Moses, 100-yard Breaststroke, 2000 ** Ed Moses, 200-yard Breaststroke, 2000 ** Shamek Pietucha, 200-yard Butterfly, 1999 *Women's Tennis ** Elaine Chervinsky and

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, doubles, 2024-2025 **

, singles, 2021 **

, singles, 2016 **Danielle Collins, singles, 2014 *Women's Cross Country ** Lesley Welch, 1982 *Women's Track **Michaela Meyer, outdoor 800 meters, 2021 *Women's Swimming & Diving ** Alex Walsh, 200-yard Individual Medley, 2024 **Alex Walsh, 400-yard Individual Medley, 2024 **Alex Walsh, 200-yard Breaststroke, 2024 ** Jasmine Nocentini, 100-yard Breaststroke, 2024 **

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, 50-Yard Freestyle, 2024 **Gretchen Walsh, 100-Yard Freestyle, 2024 **Gretchen Walsh, 100-Yard Freestyle, 2024 **

Kate Douglass Katherine Cadwallader Douglass (born November 17, 2001) is an American competitive swimmer. Douglass is a five-time Olympic medalist, including two golds, and has won 33 medals with 15 golds at the World Championships (combined short and long cou ...

, 200-Yard Individual Medley, 2023 **Kate Douglass, 100-yard Butterfly, 2023 **Kate Douglass, 200-yard Breaststroke, 2023 **Alex Walsh, 400-yard Individual Medley, 2023 **Gretchen Walsh, 100-Yard Backstroke, 2023 **Gretchen Walsh, 100-Yard Freestyle, 2023 **Kate Douglass, 50-yard Freestyle, 2022 **Kate Douglass, 100-yard Butterfly, 2022 **Kate Douglass, 200-yard Breaststroke, 2022 **Alex Walsh, 200-yard Individual Medley, 2022 **Alex Walsh, 400-yard Individual Medley, 2022 **Alex Walsh, 200-yard Butterfly, 2022 **Gretchen Walsh, 100-Yard Freestyle, 2022 **

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, 200-yard Freestyle, 2021 **Paige Madden, 500-yard Freestyle, 2021 **Paige Madden, 1,650-yard Freestyle, 2021 **Kate Douglass, 50-yard Freestyle, 2021 **Alex Walsh, 200-yard Individual Medley, 2021 ** Leah Smith, 500-yard Freestyle, 2016 **Leah Smith, 1,650-yard Freestyle, 2016 **Leah Smith, 500-yard Freestyle, 2015 **Leah Smith, 1,650-yard Freestyle, 2015 **Cara Lane, 1,650-yard Freestyle, 2001 **Cara Lane, 1,500-meter Freestyle, 2000

Atlantic Coast Conference championships

*Men's: (85) **Baseball (4): 1972,

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**Basketball (3):

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**Cross Country (4): 1984, 2005, 2007, 2008 **Football (2): 1989 (co-champions), 1995 (co-champions) **Golf (1): 2025 **Lacrosse (19): 1962, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2019, 2022 **Outdoor Track & Field (1): 2009 **Soccer (16): 1969, 1970, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2019 **Swimming & Diving (16): 1987, 1990, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 **Tennis (15): 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 **Wrestling (5): 1974, 1975, 1977, 2010, 2015 *Women's: (68) **Basketball (3): 1990, 1992, 1993 **Cross Country (3): 1981, 1982, 2015 **Field Hockey (1): 2016 **Golf (2): 2015, 2016 **Indoor Track & Field (1): 1987 **Lacrosse (5): 1998, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 **Outdoor Track & Field (5): 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 **Rowing (22): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 **Soccer (2): 2004, 2012 **Softball (1): 1994 **Swimming & Diving (21): 1990, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Tennis (2): 2014, 2015

Notes

References

External links

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