Three-time Ladies Professional Golf Association tour winner Maggie Will joined the University of Richmond women's golf team as the head coach this summer. Will won the 1990 Desert Inn International, the 1992 Sara Lee Classic and the 1994 Children's Medical Center Classic.
Two decades ago, Leigh Cowlishaw accepted a scholarship to play soccer at the University of Richmond.
The 2012 Richmond Spiders football team is faced with yet another change. With the team's fourth head coach in four years, the Spiders look to rebound from their disappointing 2011 campaign with eight consecutive losses. Following last year's season, Danny Rocco was hired to replace interim head coach Wayne Lineburg, who remains on staff this season as associate head coach.
The men's head soccer coach Clint Peay sent an email to the team yesterday announcing his resignation, just weeks before the start of the its preseason training. Peay was offered a coaching position with the Under-17 National team, senior captain Houston Oldham said. "We were all pretty shocked.
Richmond football player Jimmy Speros pleaded guilty to misdemeanor hit-and-run and reckless driving charges.
The Atlantic 10, the University of Richmond's athletic conference for all sports except football, has added Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler University for the 2012-13 seasons.
The University of Richmond had cut the University of Massachusetts' lead from seven to four, and was in good position to get closer late in the game, but failed to do so in its 14-9 loss in Sunday's Atlantic 10 Conference tournament title game. With about three minutes left in the game, senior Mary Flowers had the ball on a restart a few yards away from UMass goalie Katie Florence, but Flowers moved too early and the ball went back to the Minutewomen.
Q: What led to your success at the Coca-Cola Invitational? A: I was very patient and putted very well.
Though its regular season ended with the Coca-Cola Wofford Intercollegiate tournament last week, the University of Richmond men's golf team competed in and won the first ever Black and Blue Cup this weekend over Virginia Commonwealth University. A variation of the Spiders-Rams basketball rivalry, nicknamed the "Black and Blue Classic," the idea of holding a golf match between the two rivals began as an informal conversation between the teams' two coaches at a tournament earlier in the season. Typically, collegiate golf is played in a stroke-play format over 54 holes and includes more than 12 teams.
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The University of Richmond baseball team dropped its first of three games Friday against Atlantic-10 opponent, George Washington, 9-4. After holding the lead during the first eight innings, the Spiders gave up seven runs in the ninth. Starting pitcher Jacob Mayers threw for eight innings, striking out a career-high 12 batters, and allowed just two runs. "[Mayers] was outstanding," Richmond coach Mark McQueen said.
Junior Meg Schroeder is the only woman in a pool of shirtless men every Tuesday and Thursday night ... at University of Richmond club water polo practices. The women's club water polo team has been practicing with the men's team all year, but Schroeder, the team's co-captain, said she had been the only woman attending these joint practices since the first week in February, when her team had been forced to drop out of the league because it had only four players. The other three players, senior co-captain Caitlin Manak, sophomore Catherine Romberger and freshman Amy Reader, have their reasons for not showing up, Schroeder said. Manak, who has been playing polo since she was a freshman in high school, said she had wanted to compete her senior year but numbers have been a problem for the team all four years Manak has been at Richmond, she said. "It's always frustrating trying to recruit at a school of 3,000 that has a very heavy focus on academics," she said.
The University of Richmond will host two ultimate frisbee tournaments on the intramural fields Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15, including the women's Atlantic Coast regional tournament. The Richmond Redhots, the women's ultimate frisbee club team, will play in what could be its last tournament of the season, with a chance at one of two bids to the national tournament in Wisconsin on May 19, said senior Alex Purdy, a women's frisbee team co-captain. "This tournament represents the culmination of everything that we have worked hard for this year," Purdy said. The Atlantic Coast region is made up of eight schools: Richmond, Catholic University, Davidson College, Elon University, Goucher College, University of Mary Washington, Roanoke College and St.
As the regular season comes to a close, the University of Richmond women's lacrosse team has its sight set on the Atlantic 10 tournament, which will be held from April 27 to 29 in E.
Despite expectations that the Spiders would beat their opponents handily, Richmond women's lacrosse team faced a close game Friday afternoon. The score remained tight for the duration of the match and ended with a Spider victory, 18-17, over George Washington University.
Right-handed pitcher Jacob Mayers threw a career-high 10 complete innings on Friday afternoon in Richmond's 2-1 walk-off victory over Xavier University.
Latrell Scott, who resigned as University of Richmond's head football coach before the start of last season, was hired as James Madison University's tight ends coach Friday, according to a release on JMUSports.com. Scott, who led the Spiders to a 6-5 season in 2010, resigned just 10 days before the start of the 2011 season after being arrested for a DWI.
Friends often tell me that the regular college basketball season doesn't matter, and that it's all about the tournament.To them I ask, are you kidding? What if Duke hadn't lost to Florida State in the regular season?
The Richmond women's track and field team placed third in the 2011 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships and strived for nothing less this year, said freshman sprinter Jasmine Smalls. The team had its first meet Dec.
JR Riddick was lifting weights in the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness when a man approached him and asked why he didn't play football for the Spiders, Riddick said. Riddick was unsure of whom the man was until he introduced himself as Danny Rocco, the new head football coach for the University of Richmond. Rocco had seen Riddick working out and playing basketball during several trips to the gym this winter and, noticing his athletic ability, invited him to come to the open tryouts he was holding before Spring Break, Rocco said. Riddick, a sophomore from Yorktown, Va., made the team as a wide receiver, after having played just two years of high school football. He played his freshman year of high school and then didn't play for two years because his family moved to the Netherlands, he said.
