Virginia sets up home-and-home football series vs. Washington State

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Virginia announced a home-and-home series with Washington State on Tuesday.

The Cavaliers are set to host the Cougars at Scott Stadium on Sept. 27, 2025, and then make the return journey to Pullman, Washington, for a contest on Sept. 13, 2031.

The two games will be the first in football played between the two schools. Their primary connection so far is through basketball: Tony Bennett left Washington State to take UVA’s head-coaching job in March 2009.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Cox alum captures Sun Belt award

James Madison junior Fenwick Trimble of Virginia Beach was tabbed as the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week.

The center fielder from Cox High helped lead JMU to a 3-1 week that saw the Dukes sweep Georgia Southern and improve to 24-15 overall and 10-8 in Sun Belt games.

For the week, he hit .500 with an OPS of 1.517 as he went 8 for 15 with a double, two homers, five runs, five RBIs and 15 total bases.

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

CNU’s Martin named C2C Pitcher of Week

CNU’s Jamie Martin (8-1) was named the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week. She stretched her consecutive scoreless-innings string to 28 by giving up one hit and striking out 10 in four innings of a five-inning victory at York College in Pennsylvania.

UVA’s Bigham repeats as ACC Pitcher of Week

For the third time this season and second consecutive week, Virginia’s Eden Bigham was named the ACC Pitcher of the Week.

Bigham helped the Cavaliers to a series win at No. 3 Duke over the weekend, pitching nine scoreless innings in Friday night’s loss with nine strikeouts. She escaped three bases-loaded jams and left the game scoreless in a 12-inning affair.

She picked up her third save of the season in game two of the series, the first of a Saturday doubleheader, as she got the Cavaliers out of a bases-loaded jam without surrendering a run.

COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL

Former Seton Hall center commits to JMU

James Madison gained a commitment from Seton Hall transfer center Elijah Hutchins-Everett, according to his social media.

The 6-foot-11 junior averaged 3.5 points and 2.5 rebounds last season for the Pirates, who won the National Invitation Tournament. He joins Georgia Tech transfer Ebenezer Dowuona as players to join JMU under new coach Preston Spradlin.

COLLEGE WOMEN’S LACROSSE

UVA’s Schwab finds spot on All-ACC first team

Senior attacker Morgan Schwab was the only Virginia player named to the All-ACC first team.

The second team included four Cavaliers: defender Maggie Bostain, attacker Katia Carnevale and midfielders Mackenzie Hoeg and Kiki Shaw. The third team had three UVA representatives: attackers Madison Alaimo and Jenna Dinardo and midfielder Kate Galica.

MORE UVA NEWS

The Virginia Athletics Foundation announced the launch of the Sabre Society, a philanthropic giving society in support of Virginia Athletics and the more than 750 student-athletes involved with them.

COLLEGE TENNIS

ODU women take Sun Belt yearly honors

Old Dominion took top Sun Belt yearly honors after going unbeaten in regular-season conference play.

Sofia Johnson was the Player of the Year. She joined Alexandra Viktorovitch on the singles first team and joined Lidiia Rasskouskaia on the doubles first team. Dominic Manilla was the Coach of the Year, and Ulyana Romanova was the Rookie of the Year.

C2C honors Captains’ Hansen, Weis

Christopher Newport’s Raine Weis and Eddy Porsmyr Hansen were named the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference’s Players of the Week.

Weis took the women’s award with an 8-1 victories against Marymount at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles alongside Tessa Trate. Hansen won the men’s honor by going 4-0 for the weekend at Nos. 1 and 2 singles and doubles alongside Cox High graduate Ashton Legum.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

Captains capture conference awards

CNU’s Ellie Nuckols was named the C2C Women’s Track Athlete of the Week, and teammate Katie Stevens was the Women’s Field Athlete of the Week.

Nuckols scored 4,141 in the heptathlon at last weekend’s New Captains Classic, placing her 38th in NCAA Division III and fourth in CNU history. Also at that meet, Stevens threw the discus a personal-best 43.69 meters, the second-longest throw in Captains history, and set a personal-record javelin throw at 30.23 meters.

The Captains’ CJ Reeders was named the Field Athlete of the Week. He triple-jumped a season-best 14.39 meters at the New Captains Classic, putting him 14th in Division III this year.

UVA steeplechase ace named ACC Athlete of Week

Nate Mountain of UVA earned ACC Athlete of the Week status after a record-setting weekend at the Virginia Challenge.

In the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase invitational section, he ran an ACC-record and school-record time of 8:20.86. Mountain finished second in the field, just behind Matthew Wilkinson of Under Armour (8:18.53).

PRO WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Ex-UVA forward signs with Minnesota Lynx

Former Virginia forward Camryn Taylor signed a training-camp contract with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. She became the first former Cavalier to sign with a WNBA team since Jocelyn Willoughby was selected No. 10 overall by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2020 draft.

A native of Peoria, Illinois, Taylor transferred to UVA in 2021 after a two-year stint with Marquette (2019-21). In 127 career games, she averaged 12.5 points and 5.7 rebounds and shot 48% from the field.