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Athletics

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 13th in the final 2006-07 Division I United States Sports Academy 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 14 years of the program's existence.

Virginia's 2006-07 Record
Virginia had another successful year of athletic competition in 2006-07. Teams or individuals in 21 of Virginia's 25 sports advanced to postseason competition in 2006-07, including 20 in NCAA championship events. U.Va.'s athletics year was highlighted by runner-up finishes by the women's lacrosse and women's rowing teams in NCAA Championships, while the men's soccer and men's tennis teams both reached the NCAA semifinals. Virginia teams won three conference championships in 2006-07 and have won 23 ACC Championships in the last five years, the most of any school in the ACC during that period. The U.Va. women's rowing team has won eight consecutive conference championships.

In addition, the Cavaliers' Somdev Devvarman became the first men's tennis player from the Atlantic Coast Conference to win the NCAA singles championship and the women's rowing team's varsity four won the NCAA Championship in that event for the third time in the last four years. Virginia's Pat Mellors was honored as the ACC Men's Swimmer of the Year and Brittany Kalkstein was named the national Rookie of the Year for women's lacrosse by insidelacrosse.com and womenslacrosse.com.

The 2006-07 season was the first basketball season in the John Paul Jones Arena for the Virginia men's and women's teams. The men's team established school records for most home wins in a season with a 16-1 record in the new arena and by averaging 13,521 fans a game for 17 home games. The team tied for the regular season ACC Championship with an 11-5 conference record, compiled an overall record of 21-11 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The women's basketball team advanced to the quarterfinals of the WNIT and compiled an overall record of 19-15. The season was the 30th for Debbie Ryan as head coach of U.Va.'s women's team and she was named to the Class of 2008 for induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

Academics
Academically, Virginia's graduation rate for student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility remains high. In the 2006-07 academic year, those individuals who exhausted their eligibility graduated at a rate of almost 97 percent.

U.Va. had 221 student-athletes named to the 2006-07 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.

2006-07 University of Virginia Athletics — Team Accomplishments