Athletics 2010-11
A member of the highly competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, Virginia fields 12 intercollegiate sports for men and 13 for women. U.Va.'s intercollegiate athletics program ranked seventh in the final 2010-11 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings, which are based on the combined performance of men's and women's sports during the academic year. Virginia is one of just 15 schools to finish in the Top 30 in the Directors' Cup standings in all 18 years of the program's existence. U.Va. has ranked in the Top 10 each of the last three years.
Virginia Athletics 2010-11
Virginia had another successful year of athletic competition in 2010-11. Teams or individuals in 21 of Virginia's 25 sports advanced to postseason competition in 2010-11 highlighted by the men's lacrosse team winning the 2011 NCAA Championship. It's the third NCAA Championship for the Virginia athletics program in the last two years. Other top finishes in NCAA postseason competition by U.Va. athletics teams in 2010-11 included program-best finishes of second by the men's tennis team, a tie for third by the baseball team, fourth by the women's golf team and eighth by the men's swimming and diving team. The field hockey team reached the NCAA Tournament's semifinals for the second consecutive year and the women's rowing team finished sixth at the NCAA Championships. The men's tennis team won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's National Team Indoor Championship for the fourth consecutive year, while the baseball team earned the number one national seed in the NCAA Baseball Championship and participated in the College World Series for the second time in three years. The women's cross country team won the NCAA Southeast Regional title and the baseball team won both the NCAA Charlottesville Regional and Super Regional.
Virginia won five Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in 2010-11 and has now won 47 ACC Championships in the last nine years, more than any other conference school during that time frame. U.Va. won ACC Championships in baseball (second in the last three years), women's rowing (11th in 12 years), men's swimming and diving (fourth consecutive and 12th in the last 13 years), women's swimming and diving (fourth consecutive) and men's tennis (fifth consecutive and seventh in the last eight years).
Virginia swimmer Matt McLean won the NCAA Championship in the 500-freestyle and runner Robby Andrews won the 800 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships after winning that event at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in 2009-10.
Men's lacrosse player Steele Stanwick won the Tewaaraton Trophy as the nation's top player, baseball pitcher Tyler Wilson received the Lowes Senior CLASS Award as the most outstanding senior student-athlete in Division I baseball and Danny Hultzen of the baseball team received the John Olerud Two-Way Player Award. The men's tennis team's Michael Shabaz was the ITA/Farnsworth National Senior Player of the Year, Alex Domijan was the ITA National Rookie of the Year and Sanam Singh received the ITA/Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award.
Ten Virginia student-athletes earned some form of ACC Player of the Year honor in their respective sport in 2010-11. The list includes: McKenzie Adams (volleyball, Freshman of the Year), Alex Domijan (men's tennis, Freshman of the Year), Sinead Farrelly (women's soccer, Offensive Player of the Year), Danny Hultzen (baseball, Pitcher of the Year), Ben Kohles (men's golf, Player of the Year), Anthony Kostelac (indoor and outdoor track and field, Freshman of the Year), Matt McLean (men's swimming, Swimmer of the Year), Ariana Moorer (women's basketball, Sixth Player of the Year), Lauren Perdue (women's swimming, Swimmer of the Year) and Steele Stanwick (men's lacrosse, Player of the Year). Runner Emil Heineking won his second consecutive ACC men's cross country individual title.
Four different Virginia coaches earned a total of five ACC Coach of the Year Awards in 2010-11, including Brian O'Connor (baseball), Kevin Sauer (rowing), Mark Bernardino (men's swimming and women's swimming) and Brian Boland (men's tennis). In addition Boland, O'Connor and women's head tennis coach Mark Guilbeau were named Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in their respective sports, Jason Vigilante was named the Southeast Region Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year and Brian Bailie was recognized as the National Golf Coaches Association Assistant Women's Coach of the Year.
Men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia's teams have won 329 games during his head coaching career, more than any other Division I head coach. Starsia's 19 Virginia teams have compiled an overall record of 228-72 and the 2011 championship is the program's fourth NCAA Championship under Starsia's guidance.
Debbie Ryan stepped down after 34 years as head women's basketball coach at U.Va. Her Virginia teams compiled an overall record of 739-324 and participated in the NCAA Tournament 24 times. Ryan's teams reached the NCAA Tournament's Final Four three times, the Sweet Sixteen 12 times (including 11 consecutive years from 1987-97), won three Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament titles and 11 ACC regular-season championships. She is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
Joanne Boyle, the head coach at the University of California at Berkeley the last six years, is Virginia's new women's head basketball coach. Boyle's California teams compiled an overall record of 137-64 and participated in postseason play each season (four NCAA Tournament appearances, two WNIT). In nine years as a collegiate head coach, including three years at Richmond, her teams have compiled an overall record of 204-93 and participated in postseason play every year.
Virginia's intercollegiate athletics teams won 66 percent of their contests in 2010-11 to win the annual Virginia Sports Information Directors Association Division I All-Sports Championship for the fourth consecutive year and sixth time in the last eight years. U.Va.'s teams compiled an overall record of 286-146-5 (.660 winning percentage).
Academics
U.Va. had 250 student-athletes named to the 2010-11 Atlantic Coast Conference Honor Roll. The Honor Roll comprises those student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year.
Virginia's graduation rate for student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility remains high. Since the NCAA has been publishing institutional rates, those individuals who exhausted their eligibility at Virginia graduated at a rate of 93 percent.
Three Virginia athletics teams received public recognition awards for achieving Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in the top 10 percent of their respective sports. The teams were baseball, women's indoor track and field, and women's outdoor track and field.
Virginia's Will Collins (men's golf), Meghan Lenczyk (women's soccer), Scot Robison (men's swimming) and Liz Shaw (women's swimming) received postgraduate scholarships from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Virginia's Sarah Borchelt was named the ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for rowing and baseball player Danny Hultzen was a Capital One First-Team Academic All-American as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
2010-11 University of Virginia Athletics — Team Accomplishments
| Baseball | College World Series, 3rd (tie) Won Charlottesville Super Regional Won Charlottesville Regional ACC Champions |
| Basketball, Women | WNIT Quarterfinals |
| Cross Country, Men | NCAA Championship Meet, 17th NCAA Southeast Regional, 6th Emil Heineking won ACC individual championship |
| Cross Country, Women | NCAA Championship Meet, 21st NCAA Southeast Regional, 1st |
| Field Hockey | NCAA Semifinals |
| Golf, Men | NCAA East Regional, 8th |
| Golf, Women | NCAA Championships, 4th NCAA West Regional, 3th |
| Lacrosse, Men | NCAA Champions |
| Lacrosse, Women | NCAA First Round |
| Rowing | NCAA Championships, 6th ACC Champions |
| Soccer, Men | NCAA First Round |
| Soccer, Women | NCAA Third Round |
| Swimming & Diving, Men | NCAA Championships, 8th |
| Swimming & Diving, Women | NCAA Championships, 13th ACC Champions |
| Tennis, Men | NCAA Chamionships, 13th ITA National Team Indoor Champions ACC Champions |
| Tennis, Women | NCAA Third Round |
| Track & Field (Indoor), Men | NCAA Championships (two participants, two second-team All-Americans) |
| Track & Field (Outdoor), Men | NCAA Championship, 25th (tie) |
| Track & Field (Indoor), Women | NCAA Championships, 30th (tie) NCAA Championships (four participants, Distance Medley Relay Team, four first-team All-Americans) |
| Track & Field (Outdoor), Women | NCAA Champships, 29th (tie) NCAA Championships (five participants, two first-team All-Americans and three second-team All-Americans) |
| Wrestling | NCAA Championships, 23rd NCAA Championships (eight participants, two All-Americans) |