Benford, Traynor await Tuesday decision on bids to nationals
The NCAA selection committee naming at-large bids for the outdoor track and field national championships won't release results until 3 p.m. Tuesday, not Monday, as originally expected.
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The NCAA selection committee naming at-large bids for the outdoor track and field national championships won't release results until 3 p.m. Tuesday, not Monday, as originally expected.
Nicol Traynor will not automatically qualify for the NCAA national meet after a 12th place in the East Regional 5,000-meter run, but her school-record performance earlier this season could be enough to secure an at-large bid.
The University of Richmond women's tennis team parlayed a No. 1 seed into an Atlantic 10 Championship Sunday, dethroning reigning conference champion Temple University 4-0 and ensuring the team a spot in the NCAA Championships next month.
The days after Lauren Beaudreau's disappointing performance at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials last summer were some of the grimmest in her 15-year career.
Editor's Note: The Collegian is posting updates from University of Richmond swimming coach Matt Barany, who is in College Station, Texas, with senior Lauren Beaudreau for the 2009 NCAA Swimming Championships. Beaudreau, competing in nationals for the third time, will swim the 200-yard IM, 400 IM and 200 breastroke through Saturday.
The run for the Atlantic 10 Conference title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the University of Richmond women's basketball team fell just short after the team lost to the University of Charlotte 59-54 in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday.
After earning a first-round bye, the University of Richmond women's basketball team will begin the Atlantic 10 tournament in the quarterfinals at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte's Halton Arena in Charlotte, N.C.
The University of Richmond women's basketball team will play its final conference game against the Saint Louis Billikens at the Robins Center on senior day at 2 p.m. on March 1.
Video of the on-campus celebration for the Football team in the Dining Hall on Jan. 17.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Spiders started their 2008 season 4-3, but ended Friday night No. 1 in the nation, seizing a 24-7 win against the University of Montana and the school's first NCAA championship in school history.
You know you've done something right when someone names a day after you.
University of Richmond defensive coordinator Russ Huesman has accepted the head coaching position for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, just three days after his defense held Montana to 39 yards rushing in the team's 24-7 national championship win.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- After it became clear the University of Richmond would win its first national championship over the Montana Grizzlies 24-7, players doused coach Mike London in water, then charged the field to congratulate Montana and begin celebrating.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- University of Richmond fans traveled from near and far to witness their team win its first National Championship, while others watched from places as diverse as New York City, Washington, D.C., Ecuador and Singapore. Throughout the game, the Spider fans maintained their energy and support in the most overwhelming display of school spirit in years.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Hundreds of University of Richmond fans lined the entrance to Finley Stadium to welcome the Spiders during the final Spider Walk Friday night. Richmond's captains -- seniors John Crone, Will Healy, Sherman Logan and Lawrence Sidbury Jr. -- strode hand-in-hand onto the field. Army paratroopers glided onto the field, an 11-year-old Chattanooga native sang the National Anthem, and soon thereafter Richmond made a dominating performance during the national championship game.
BALTIMORE -- Forgive me readers, for I have lost my mind.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Spider football team decisively beat the University of Montana Grizzlies 24-7 Friday night at Finley Stadium to give the University of Richmond its first national title in any sport in the school's 178-year history.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- John Crone, the University of Richmond's senior fullback, had an announcement to make.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Two hours before kick-off of the National Championship game Friday, Dec. 19, University of Richmond football fans lined Finley Stadium's entryway for the last Spider Walk of the season. Students, alumni and parents, some with their faces painted, others carrying signs, cheered as the football team made its way into the stadium.
NEW YORK -- Friday night I stood beside more than 30 Richmond alumni to watch our football team make school history. From 800 miles away, we packed into a pub named The Australian and screamed with the crowds in Chattanooga, Tenn., and every other fan watching around the nation. Although I felt like a teenybopper wearing my Richmond '11 T-shirt, I didn't care because the place was packed and our Spiders rocked the house.