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Recapping Virginia’s Athletic Achievements in the ACC in 2021-2022
The 2021-2022 Virginia athletics 12 months involves an finish this weekend with 9 UVA athletes competing within the 2022 NCAA Monitor & Discipline Championships, the ultimate collegiate sporting occasion for the Cavaliers this season. With ACC competitors wrapped up in every of Virginia’s 25 NCAA sports activities, let’s check out how every of UVA’s groups fared within the Atlantic Coast Convention in 2021-2022.
The Cavaliers gained three ACC common season championships in girls’s soccer, males’s lacrosse, and males’s tennis, and gained three ACC postseason championships in girls’s swimming, girls’s rowing, and males’s tennis.
Males’s Cross Nation
Within the ACC Cross Nation Championships, the lads’s group completed eighth within the subject. Rohann Asfaw completed thirteenth in a subject of 135 runners because the quickest particular person runner for the Cavaliers. Jacob Hunter and Derek Johnson additionally completed within the prime 50 on the person leaderboard.
Girls’s Cross Nation
The ladies’s group completed in tenth place within the ACC Championship 6k race. Freshman Margot Appleton completed thirty first within the race out of 138 whole runners to cleared the path for her group.
Discipline Hockey
Document: 12-9, 3-3 ACC
Virginia’s subject hockey group completed fifth within the ACC in the course of the common season with a 3-3 convention report. Within the ACC Championship, the Cavaliers beat Boston Faculty within the quarterfinals after which managed to upset No. 1 seed Louisville to advance to the title recreation, however they fell to the third-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels by a rating of 1-0.
Virginia had two gamers honored on the All-ACC group. Senior Amber Ezechiels made First Staff and senior Annie McDonough obtained Second-Staff honors.
Soccer
Document: 6-6, 4-4 ACC
Virginia’s 4-4 report in convention play was good for a fourth place end within the ACC Coastal after ending the season and the Bronco Mendenhall period on a four-game shedding streak, together with a pair of powerful loses to Coastal rivals Pitt and Virginia Tech.
The Cavaliers positioned eight gamers on All-ACC groups. Dontayvion Wicks and Jelani Woods made First Staff, Keytaon Thompson, Olusegun Oluwatimi, and Nick Jackson made the Second Staff, Brennan Armstrong and Billy Kemp made Third Staff, and Bobby Haskins obtained an honorable point out.
Males’s Soccer
Document: 6-9-3, 2-5-1 ACC
The lads’s soccer group positioned sixth within the ACC Coastal division with two convention wins on the season and 7 whole factors. Because the No. 11 seed within the ACC Match, the Cavaliers fell to Wake Forest within the first spherical. The ACC had eight groups get bids to the NCAA Match, essentially the most of any convention, and three of these groups superior to the Elite Eight, so it was a extremely aggressive convention.
Leo Afonso obtained Second-Staff All-ACC honors, and Asparuh Slavov made the All-Freshman group.
Girls’s Soccer
Document: 18-3-2, 8-0-2 ACC
The Virginia girls’s soccer group went undefeated in ACC play, capturing this system’s third ACC common season championship. UVA earned the No. 1 seed within the ACC Championship, however fell within the title recreation to No. 2 Florida State, who went on to win the Nationwide Championship just a few weeks later.
Virginia racked up the ACC honors with Diana Ordoñez profitable ACC Offensive Participant of the Yr and head coach Steve Swanson getting the nod because the convention’s Coach of the Yr. Lia Godfrey was a First Staff member together with Ordoñez. The Cavaliers added three Second Staff members in Samar Guidry, Laurel Ivory, and Alexa Spaanstra in addition to two Third Staff members in Haley Hopkins and Taryn Torres.
Volleyball
Document: 8-20, 1-17 ACC
Virginia volleyball completed fifteenth within the ACC within the first season beneath head coach Shannon Wells after the group minimize its earlier season brief.
Brooklyn Borum delivered a unbelievable first-year marketing campaign and was named to the ACC’s All-Freshman Staff. Borum is the primary Cavalier to earn any ACC award since Sarah Billiard made the All-Freshman Staff in 2017.
Males’s Basketball
Document: 21-14, 12-8 ACC
Virginia completed the common season sixth within the ACC standings after going 12-8 in convention play. The Cavaliers held off Louisville within the second spherical, however UVA fell to North Carolina within the quarterfinals of the ACC Males’s Basketball Match in Brooklyn.
Jayden Gardner was acknowledged as a member of All-ACC Third Staff and Kihei Clark and Reece Beekman each obtained honorable mentions. Beekman additionally got here in second for ACC Defensive Participant of the Yr and was due to this fact a member of the All-ACC Defensive Staff.
Girls’s Basketball
Document: 5-22, 2-14 ACC
The ladies’s basketball group completed 14th within the ACC standings after profitable two out of its final three video games of the season, notching victories over Duke and Pittsburgh. Within the ACC Match, the Cavaliers fell to Wake Forest within the first spherical.
Males’s Swimming & Diving
On the ACC championships, the lads’s swim group completed in fourth place. A number of highlights included Jack Aikins ending second within the 200-yard backstroke and Matt King, Connor Boyle, and Matt Brownstead ending second, third, and fourth within the 100-yard freestyle.
Girls’s Swimming & Diving
Along with profitable a second-straight nationwide championship, the Virginia girls’s swim group took house its third-consecutive ACC Championship after profitable 14 occasions.
Alex Walsh was named the ACC Girls’s Most Invaluable Swimmer after profitable three particular person occasions and three relays, two of which set American data. The Cavaliers additionally gained all 5 relays on the meet.
The ACC honors saved coming for the ladies’s group, as Kate Douglass gained Girls’s Swimmer of the Yr, Gretchen Walsh gained Girls’s Freshman of the Yr, and Todd DeSorbo gained Girls’s Swimming Coach of the Yr.
Males’s Indoor Monitor
The lads’s indoor observe group positioned tenth on the ACC Championships. Owayne Owens gained the triple soar for the second 12 months in a row and Wes Porter completed second within the mile as two highlights for the Cavaliers.
Girls’s Indoor Monitor
The ladies’s group managed a fifth place end within the ACC Indoor Monitor Championships. Maria Deaviz earned a private finest in shot put that additionally gave her a primary place end, and Jada Seaman positioned third within the 200-meter race.
Wrestling
Document: 4-6, 1-4 ACC
The Virginia wrestling group went 1-4 in convention duals in the course of the common season. The ACC Championships have been held in Charlottesville at John Paul Jones Area and the Cavaliers completed fifth, matching the seed the group had getting into the match.
Justin McCoy earned All-ACC honors within the 165-pound weight class by ending second, one in every of six UVA wrestlers who positioned in the course of the occasion. Eight Cavaliers locked up computerized bids to the NCAA Championships by advantage of their performances on the ACC Wrestling Championships.
Baseball
Document: 39-19, 17-13 ACC
After a scorching begin, UVA endured a drop-off within the second half of the season, shedding 4 of its final six ACC sequence and ending the season 17-13 in ACC play. Virginia ended up third within the ACC Coastal standings.
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After incomes the fifth seed within the ACC match, the Cavaliers fell to Florida State and Notre Dame and due to this fact have been unable to advance to the semifinal spherical out of pool play.
Jake Gelof and Alex Tappen earned First-Staff All-ACC honors after anchoring the Cavalier offense all season, as each gamers eclipsed the 70 RBI mark. Pitcher Brian Gursky made Second Staff and Griff O’Ferrall and Casey Saucke have been members of the ACC All-Freshman group after spectacular seasons within the first spring in Charlottesville.
Males’s Golf
On the ACC Males’s Golf Championship, the Cavaliers positioned seventh general after ending ten beneath par as a group. UVA completed above Virginia Tech (eleventh) within the group leaderboards, so the Cavaliers earned some extent within the Commonwealth Conflict.
Girls’s Golf
The ladies’s group was seeded fourth getting into the ACC Championship and the Cavaliers made it to the semifinals of match play earlier than falling to the eventual ACC champion, Wake Forest.
Jennifer Cleary and Amanda Sambach made the 15-member all-conference group.
Males’s Lacrosse
Document: 12-4, 5-1 ACC
Except a loss at Duke, the Cavaliers dominated the ACC this season, delivering a 5-1 report and capturing their nineteenth ACC Championship and second within the final 4 years.
Virginia practically swept the ACC annual awards. Cole Kastner gained Defensive Participant of the Yr, goalie Matthew Nunes gained Freshman of the Yr, and Lars Tiffany was named the Coach of the Yr.
Moreover, Matt Moore obtained his third-straight choice to the All-ACC group, and teammates Connor Shellenberger, Jeff Conner, Cole Kastner, and Petey LaSalla joined him.
Girls’s Lacrosse
Document: 10-10, 3-5 ACC
Virginia completed sixth within the ACC in the course of the common season after going 3-5 within the convention and holding a 10-10 report general. Whereas a .500 report isn’t thought of wonderful, Virginia completed the season ranked No. 16 within the Inside Lacrosse nationwide ballot due to the energy of schedule concerned within the ACC.
Within the ACC Championship, the Cavaliers managed to upset the No. 3 seed Syracuse 18-14 within the quarterfinals. Nevertheless, the group fell within the semifinals to Boston Faculty, who ended the season because the runner-up for each the ACC and NCAA Championship.
Rachel Clark was honored because the Freshman of the Yr within the ACC and likewise made the All-ACC Second-Staff and the All-Freshman group after scoring 60 objectives in her first collegiate season. Her teammate Ashlyn McGovern made First Staff and Aubrey Williams additionally made Second Staff with Clark. Lastly, Abby Manalang and Kate Miller obtained All-Freshman group honors.
Rowing
Virginia continued its absolute dominance within the ACC rowing scene by profitable its twelfth consecutive ACC Championship (and twentieth within the final 21 years) after profitable 4 of the 5 Grand Finals.
Coach Kevin Sauer gained ACC Coach of the Yr. The First Varsity Eight crew of Lauren Benedict, Eva Fronhoffer, Kelsey Gems, Kate Kelly, Nicola Lawless, Sonja Schlosser, Alli Terblanche, Leia Until, and Vivi Van Ingen gained ACC Crew of the Yr. Schlosser, Lawless, Terblanche, and coxswain Van Ingen made First Staff, and Until made Second Staff from the First Varsity Eight squad.
Softball
Document: 28-26, 13-11 ACC
UVA softball completed sixth within the ACC after profitable 13 video games in convention play, essentially the most in a season since 2010. Within the ACC Championship, the Cavaliers fell brief in opposition to Florida State within the quarterfinals, falling 5-3.
Third baseman Sarah Coon was a member of the All-Freshman Staff within the ACC.
Males’s Tennis
Document: 28-5, 12-0 ACC
Virginia males’s tennis ended the season on a tear, profitable the final 23 video games. The Cavaliers went an ideal 12-0 within the ACC, clinching a second-consecutive common season title. UVA went on to win back-to-back ACC Match Championships, coming from behind to beat North Carolina 4-3 within the title match. Ryan Goetz was named the MVP of the ACC Championship. The Cavaliers then superior in NCAAs to Champaign, Illinois and gained their fifth nationwide championship.
For the third season in a row, a Virginia participant was named ACC Males’s Tennis Participant of the Yr as Inaki Montes carried the torch from Carl Söderlund, who gained the award in 2019 and 2021. Andres Pedroso was named the ACC Coach of the Yr for the third-consecutive season he gained his first nationwide title as UVA head coach.
Montes and Chris Rodesch earned First-Staff All-ACC honors, whereas Ryan Goetz and Jeffrey von der Schulenburg have been named to the Second Staff and Gianni Ross was chosen to the Third Staff.
Girls’s Tennis
Document: 23-6, 10-3 ACC
Recording a 10-3 report in ACC play, the UVA girls’s tennis group completed in a three-way tie for third place within the convention standings. Virginia earned the No. 4 seed within the ACC Championship, the place the Cavaliers beat NC State earlier than pulling a large upset over No. 1 North Carolina 4-2 within the semis behind wins from Emma Navarro, Sara Ziodato, and Natasha Subhash. In a hard-fought championship match, UVA fell to Duke to finish the run.
Emma Navarro turned the primary participant in UVA historical past to be named the ACC Girls’s Tennis Participant of the Yr. Navarro earned First-Staff All-ACC honors and teammates Natasha Subhash and Elaine Chervinsky have been named to the All-ACC Second Staff and Third Staff, respectively.
Males’s Outside Monitor & Discipline
Within the ACC Outside Monitor Championship, the lads’s group positioned third general with 80 factors.
Claudio Romero gained the discus gold medal for the second straight 12 months whereas additionally setting a meet report and a facility report. Ethan Dabbs gained his third-straight javelin gold medal with the very best throw within the nation this season (previous to NCAAs) in addition to an ACC Championship report and a facility report.
Girls’s Outside Monitor & Discipline
The ladies’s outside observe group completed seventh on the ACC championships. Maria Deaviz gained gold in shot put for the Cavaliers, and Mia Barnett set a facility report within the prelims of the ladies’s 1,500 meters.
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