Douglass, Montes earn top honors to highlight Hoos Choice Awards
Kate Douglass and Iñaki Montes were honored as Virginia’s top female and male athletes for the 2022-23 academic year.
Kate Douglass and Iñaki Montes were honored as Virginia’s top female and male athletes for the 2022-23 academic year.
The Cavaliers were awarded the number No. 3 seed among 14 teams at the regional championship site at Bear’s Best Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev.
Virginia sophomore Amanda Sambach and junior Jennifer Cleary have been named to the 15-member 2023 All-Atlantic Coast Conference team as announced by the league office Monday.
Virginia will be looking to advance from a regional site to the NCAA Championships for the 13th time in the program’s 20-year history.
The No. 16 Virginia men’s golf team advanced to the match play portion of the ACC Championships for the first time after finishing tied for third place in stroke play on Sunday.
It marked the first season UVA advanced to the match play final since the format was adopted by the ACC in 2021.
Virginia sophomore Amanda Sambach wrapped up a record-setting performance to become the third Cavalier golfer to win the ACC Championship title on Friday in Greensboro.
The No. 22 Virginia women’s golf team competes at the ACC Championships starting Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. Virginia enters the tournament as the No. 3 seed in the 12-team field.
Virginia’s freshman phenom Ben James turned in a final-round, 6-under 65 (11-under 202 for the tournament), to tie FSU’s Cole Anderson for the event’s medalist honors.
Ben James fought from behind in Tuesday’s final round of the 54-hole event with a 6-under-par 65 to tie Florida State’s Cole Anderson for medalist honors.
Virginia men’s golf coach Bowen Sargent hopes his No. 21-ranked Cavaliers can string together a strong, finishing third round in Tuesday’s second Lewis Chitengwa Memorial at Birdwood Golf Course and use it as a springboard into postseason play.
The event honors the former Cavalier standout who lettered at UVA from 1995 to 1998. The tournament is free to the public.
The third-seeded Cavaliers downed the eighth-seeded Cardinals, 3-2.
Virginia’s Natasha Subhash was named ACC Women’s Tennis Co-Player of the Week, while freshman Ben James was named ACC Golfer of the Month, and UVA Rowing’s Varsity Eight was named the ACC Crew of the Week.
The third-seeded Cavaliers fell 3-2 to sixth-seeded North Carolina and 3-1-1 to second-seed Florida State.
Led by another top-five finish from freshman Ben James, the No. 22 Virginia men’s golf team finished third in the 15-team Augusta Haskins Award Invitational on Sunday.
Virginia sophomore golfer Amanda Sambach advanced to the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur following Thursday’s 36-hole cut.
Virginia women’s golfers Jennifer Cleary and Amanda Sambach open play at the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Wednesday.
No. 19 Virginia finished tied for sixth based on its standing after two rounds of competition with a score of 10-over 586.
Amanda Sambach posted her second-consecutive round of 1-under 71 to top UVA. She enters Sunday’s final round in fifth place at 2-under 142. She closed her day with two birdies over her final three holes.