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57-501: The "Good Old Song" is most commonly sung by Virginia Cavaliers fans following sporting events. Fans embrace as they sway back and forth, singing the first verse of the song, followed by pumping fists while screaming the chant. It is also sung at football games immediately following each Cavalier score (or the extra point attempt). Various sources ascribe the authorship of "The Good Old Song" to Virginia Glee Club member Edward A. Craighill circa 1895 even though Craighill's 1922 article on

114-459: A 10-year, $ 35 million deal that includes bonuses for nationally successful finishes in football, basketball, soccer, and lacrosse. The $ 3.5 million a year deal is the second-most lucrative Nike deal in the ACC after Florida State, and fourth overall behind North Carolina's deal with Jordan and Notre Dame's with Under Armour. As of 2018, 24 of the 27 UVA sports teams are outfitted by Nike. One exception

171-538: A 1923 contest sponsored by the student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily , and were named the university's alma mater song and fight song, respectively — but they failed to gain traction and remain relatively unknown among the general student body unless they try again to make it known by gaining traction again. According to the Virginia Pep Band , the university's band from 1974 to 2003, the university's Athletic's Department attempted to replace "The Good Old Song" with

228-897: A 295–58–32 record before leaving in 1995 to coach D.C. United to their first two Major League Soccer championship seasons, and later the United States to their best FIFA World Cup showing since 1930. The women's soccer team has produced three FIFA Women's World Cup winners for the U.S. women's national team , Morgan Brian (2015 and 2019) Emily Sonnett (2019) and Becky Sauerbrunn (both 2015 and 2019 ), and two Olympic gold medal winners, Sauerbrunn ( 2012 ) and Angela Hucles ( 2004 and 2008 ). The men's and women's lacrosse teams play their home games at Klöckner Stadium , or occasionally Turf Field or Scott Stadium . The men's program has won nine national championships (two pre-NCAA titles in 1952 and 1970 and seven NCAA titles in 1972 , 1999 , 2003 , 2006 , 2011 , 2019 and 2021 ) and

285-510: A 30-minute sudden-death period – after the 1985 final required eight 10-minute extra periods – and did not allow penalty kicks in the final, Virginia and Santa Clara were declared co-champions when the game remained tied 1–1 after 150 minutes. The Cavaliers went on to win the 1991 , 1992 , 1993 , and 1994 editions of the tournament, and as the first overall seed were upset in the semifinals in 1995 . The four consecutive championships remains an NCAA record; no other team managed even three in

342-490: A fight song, is the de facto alma mater . It is set to the music of Auld Lang Syne and is sung after each victory in every sport, and after each touchdown in football. After partial funding from benefactor Paul Tudor Jones with naming rights, John Paul Jones Arena opened in the Fall of 2006 and is the current venue for the men's and women's basketball teams. JPJ is the largest ACC arena outside of major metropolitan areas and

399-561: A live coach's show for the in-season sport on Monday evenings. WKLV, WRAR and WWWV do not carry the coach's show. Richmond's WRVA is a 50,000-watt clear-channel station , bringing the Cavaliers' nighttime games to most of the eastern half of North America. The network additionally produces selected baseball, women's basketball, and lacrosse games for broadcast on WINA and Internet streaming. Virginia teams have won 34 NCAA Championships. Below are 9 national team titles that were not awarded by

456-616: A longstanding rivalry, another one of the top rivals of the Virginia Cavaliers is the Virginia Tech Hokies . The series between the two has been heavily dominated by the Cavaliers, who boast a 31–2–5 record and 14-match unbeaten streak against the Hokies. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. – Player has represented their country at

513-472: A more lively post-touchdown song during the 1970s. They relate that the students of the Pep Band refused to abandon the song in spite of the orders, and it is thus still played today. Since the 1970s, it has become a practice of some fans to insert a chant of "Not gay!" after the line "Where all is bright and gay". Petitions and organized protests against the practice began in 2001. Some fans, after that portion of

570-554: A mounted swordsman, and there are crossed swords or sabres in the official logo. Another moniker, the “ Wahoos ”, or “Hoos” for short, based on the university's rallying cry "Wah-hoo-wah!" is also commonly used. Though originally only used by the student body, both terms—“Wahoos” and “Hoos”—have come into widespread usage with the local media as well. The school colors, adopted in 1888, are orange and navy blue. The athletic teams had previously worn grey and cardinal red but those colors did not show up very well on dirty football fields as

627-599: A rebirth. Since the inception of baseball at the university in 1889, the team has reached the NCAA baseball tournament nineteen times, once each of the past three decades (1972, 1985, 1996), but most recently fourteen years running (2004–2017) and again in 2021 and 2022. The 2009 season of the Cavaliers saw them through to the CWS (College World Series) with a 49-15-1 record. The team made a return trip to Omaha two years later in 2011, where they lost to eventual national champion South Carolina in

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684-424: A row until Stanford did so in 2017 . Arena departed for the new men's professional league Major League Soccer in 1996, where he led D.C. United to three MLS Cup titles, two Supporters' Shields and a CONCACAF Champions League title. He was replaced by longtime assistant George Gelnovatch , who remains the coach today. Gelnovatch returned the team to the 1997 final , where they lost 2–0 to UCLA . After

741-479: A shootout in the 2014 tournament . One of the earliest soccer-specific stadiums in college soccer, the Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team plays their home matches at the 8,000-seater Klöckner Stadium . Since its opening in 1997, the Cavaliers have enjoyed some of the highest reported attendance figures in American college soccer. The stadium has 3,600 grandstand seats along with an additional 3,400 grass seats. It

798-500: A six-year period during the 1980s and 1990s, and his protégé George Gelnovatch has since guided the Cavaliers to six College Cups and four championship games, winning two of them. The Cavaliers made the College Cup tournament bracket for a record 39 consecutive years , which ended in 2020, the most of any team in the history of the sport. The program has won seven NCAA Championships (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2009, 2014) and have

855-477: A string of early-round exits in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the team returned to the College Cup in 2006 and the national championship game in 2009 . Playing against the upstart Akron Zips that year, the Cavaliers were able to prevail in a penalty kick shootout to claim their sixth NCAA title, and their first national championship since the Arena years. Virginia added a seventh NCAA championship by defeating UCLA in

912-498: A sword and dressed in an orange and navy cloak and plumed hat . The Cavalier Song is the University of Virginia's fight song. The song was a result of a contest held in 1923 by the university. The Cavalier Song, with lyrics by Lawrence Haywood Lee, Jr., and music by Fulton Lewis, Jr. , was selected as the winner. Generally the second half of the song is played during sporting events. The Good Ole Song dates to 1893 and, though not

969-461: Is Joanna Hardin . On June 30, 2017, Virginia promoted their men's and women's club squash teams to varsity status. In doing so, the Cavaliers became the first Power Five program to sponsor men's squash, and only the second Power Five women's team (after Stanford ). In only their 3rd varsity season the men's team finished 5th in the country and won the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference championship. The women's swimming and diving team won

1026-583: Is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and retired as the winningest head coach in ACC history. The current head coach is Tony Elliott , who replaced Bronco Mendenhall in December 2021. With the departure of head coach Dennis Womack to the front office, the arrival of head coach Brian O'Connor from Notre Dame in 2004, and the opening of Davenport Field in 2002, the UVa baseball team experienced

1083-561: Is home to several successful programs, including Virginia men's and women's soccer . More years than not, the University of Virginia fields one of the best squads in the country, and the program has, by far, the most successful history in the ultra-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference. Since ACC Tournament play began in 1987, Virginia has played in 21 out of 33 ACC Tournament championship matches, winning eleven ACC titles, to go with their seven NCAA tournament championships (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2009, 2014). Head Coach Bruce Arena compiled

1140-433: Is home to the University of Virginia's football program. The press box at Scott Stadium was a gift from an alumnus in honor of Norton G. Pritchett, the admired athletic director at UVA from 1934 until his death in 1950. Funding from benefactor Hunter Smith created the foundation for the 320-piece Cavalier Marching Band in 2004, replacing the Virginia Pep Band at athletic events. The late Cavalier head coach George Welsh

1197-588: Is shared with the women's soccer team, as well as the men's and women's lacrosse teams. Both UVA and Maryland have NCAA Championship programs in men's soccer. The Virginia Cavaliers have won seven NCAA Championships to Maryland's four. When they were both in the Atlantic Coast Conference , some cited the rivalry between the Cavaliers and the Maryland Terrapins as one of the most bitter rivalries in college soccer. In 2011, FirstPoint USA rated

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1254-401: Is the national powerhouse baseball program that currently serves as the flagship school for Rawlings . The others are the nationally relevant men's and women's swimming and diving programs that are currently outfitted by Arena USA . Virginia Sports Radio Network Affiliates WINA and WWWV are the network flagship stations. Affiliates broadcast football and men's basketball games, as well as

1311-614: Is the winner of the 2010 ACC Coach of the Year Award. In the 2009–2010 wrestling season Garland led the Cavaliers to 1st place in the ACC and a 15th-place finish at the NCAA championships. Virginia won its fifth ACC title in 2015. The wrestling team has produced four ACC runners-up during its program history. Thanks to an anonymous donation of $ 1.5 million, Memorial Gymnasium received a full renovation in 2005. Virginia rugby competes in Division 1 in

1368-416: The 2015 College World Series ). Virginia women's rowing has added two recent NCAA Championships (2010 and 2012) while Virginia women's lacrosse won NCAA Championships in 1991, 1993, and 2004. Women's cross country won repeat NCAA Championships in 1981 and 1982. Virginia men's lacrosse repeated in 2019 and 2021 (the 2020 session being cancelled due to COVID) and Virginia women's swimming and diving won

1425-653: The Atlantic Coast Rugby League , which is composed of schools mostly from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Virginia also competes in the annual Atlantic Coast Invitational tournament, which Virginia won in 2008. Virginia also participates in an annual rivalry match against Virginia Tech for the Commonwealth Shield. Virginia finished second in the ACI tournament in 2011, and again finished second in

1482-808: The College World Series in 2015 and has appeared in the CWS five times (2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2021). The men's lacrosse team has won nine national titles (1952, 1970, 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, 2021), while the women have claimed three (1991, 1993, 2004). The football team has twice been honored as ACC co-champions (1989 and 1995). The men's soccer team has won seven NCAA Championships, four consecutively (1989, 1991–1994, 2009, 2014). Women's swimming and diving won its first NCAA Championship in 2021 and repeated in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Women's cross country won national titles in 1981 and 1982. The men's tennis team won NCAA Championships in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, and 2023. In both 2015 and 2019,

1539-535: The NCAA Division I level ( FBS for football), in the Atlantic Coast Conference since 1953. Known simply as Virginia or UVA in sports media, the athletics program has twice won the Capital One Cup for men's sports (in 2015 and 2019 ) after leading the nation in overall athletic excellence in those years. The Cavaliers have regularly placed among the nation's Top 5 athletics programs. Virginia leads

1596-519: The PGA Tour including James Driscoll , Ben Kohles , Steve Marino , and Denny McCarthy . From the women's team, recent players on the LPGA Tour have included Brittany Altomare and Elizabeth Szokol . The first University of Virginia head coach was Bobby Mainfort, back in 1921. Former Cavalier All-American Steve Garland has been the head wrestling coach at Virginia since the 2006–2007 season. Garland

1653-624: The University of Virginia and Stanford University were honored for fielding the nation's top athletics programs for NCAA men's and women's sports, respectively, by virtue of winning the Capital One Cup . The team's eponymous mascot , known informally as the Cav Man, is a fanciful depiction of a swashbuckling Virginia Cavalier as popularized in the Cavalier fiction of the Antebellum South , armed with

1710-716: The "Cavaliers," and soon after the Virginia team adopted its "curved sabres" logo in 1994, the Oxford team followed suit.) The team's name was selected in reference to the historical Virginia Cavaliers , Royalists of the English Civil War said to have fled to the Colony of Virginia for protection. Pop Lannigan was one of the "most noted athletic trainers in the East" during his tenure at Virginia from 1900 until his death in 1930. He came to

1767-593: The 2012 ACI sevens tournament, losing to rival Virginia Tech by 33–31, and secured a place at the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships . Men's rowing has won the American Collegiate Rowing Association national championship in 2011 and 2012. The national championship was canceled in 2021, but the biggest teams still raced at an unofficial championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Men’s rowing won this competition. From 2001 until 2017,

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1824-488: The ACC with 23 NCAA Championships in men's sports. The program has added eleven NCAA titles in women's sports for a grand total of 34 NCAA titles, second overall in this major conference of fifteen programs. In "revenue sports", Virginia men's basketball won the NCAA tournament championship in 2019 , won ACC tournaments in 1976, in 2014 and in 2018 , and have finished first in the ACC standings ten times. College Football Hall of Fame coach George Welsh retired with

1881-552: The Cavaliers' most recent national championships in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 for a four-peat. Non-NCAA national championships include six national titles in indoor men's tennis, two USILA titles in men's lacrosse, and one AIAW title in women's indoor track and field . UVA men's boxing was a leading collegiate program when boxing was a major national sport in the first half of the 20th century, completing four consecutive undefeated seasons between 1932 and 1936, and winning an NCAA Championship in 1938. The Cavalier mascot represents

1938-756: The First Team, three on the Second Team, and two on the Third Team. Five Cavaliers were selected in the 2006 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft. Matt Ward, Kyle Dixon, and Michael Culver were selected in the first round, Matt Poskay in the second, and J.J. Morrissey in the third. On March 28, 2009, the men's team played in the longest game in the history of NCAA Division I lacrosse—a 10–9 victory over Maryland in seven overtime periods. The Cavaliers softball team began play in 1980. The team has made two NCAA tournament appearances in 2010 and 2024. The current head coach

1995-508: The NCAA Championship in 2021, 2022, 2023 and again in 2024. The men's swimming and diving team has won 16 ACC championships and the women's team has won 20. The men's tennis team rose to prominence in the 21st century under coach Brian Boland . The team won its first ACC regular season and tournament championships in 2004 and lost to Southern California in the NCAA final in 2011 and 2012. Behind standouts Jarmere Jenkins and Alex Domijan,

2052-496: The NCAA doubles championship in 2009 (with Dominic Inglot ) and 2010 (with Drew Courtney ), and Jenkins and Mac Styslinger won the doubles title in 2013. On the women's side, Danielle Collins won the NCAA singles championship in 2014 and 2016, and Emma Navarro won in 2021. The teams won the ACC Tournament in 2014 and 2015. The men's and women's cross country teams race at Panorama Farms, located six miles from Grounds at

2109-471: The NCAA tournament every year since 1981; those 39 appearances are a record for men's soccer and one of the longest streaks in any NCAA sport. Their apex came in the late 1980s to early 1990s under Arena, when the team won five national collegiate championships in the span of six years. Future U.S. men's national team stars such as John Harkes and Claudio Reyna were members of these championship teams. Virginia's first championship, in 1989 , came in one of

2166-763: The NCAA: Virginia Cavaliers men%27s soccer The Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team represent the University of Virginia in all NCAA Division I men's soccer competitions. The Virginia Cavaliers are a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference . Virginia has an extensive reputation as one of the most elite collegiate soccer programs of the United States. The program has produced several prominent United States national team players such as Claudio Reyna , John Harkes , Jeff Agoos , Ben Olsen , and Tony Meola . Future U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena coached Virginia to five College Cup titles in

2223-421: The University of Virginia after previously serving as a trainer at Cornell University for 14 years. During his early years at Virginia he founded the college basketball and college boxing programs, and in track and field trained the "Arkansas Flash" James Rector to within six inches of winning the 100 meter dash at the 1908 Olympics (with a time of 10.9 seconds) while still a UVA student. When boxing

2280-466: The University of Virginia. It was the site of the 2006 and 2007 ACC Cross Country Championships. The men's team dates back to 1954 when they placed 4th at the ACC championships. The women's team won the NCAA national championships in 1981 and 1982 and won the ACC championships in 1982 and in 2015. Dixon Brooke won the NCAA Golf Championship in 1940. Several golfers have played professionally on

2337-517: The athletic director was Craig Littlepage , a former men's basketball head coach at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University , who has held a variety of coaching and administrative titles at the University of Virginia. Following his retirement, former Georgia Bulldogs deputy athletic director Carla Williams was named as his replacement. During the 1990s, the football team's uniforms were provided by Russell Athletic and Reebok , before Nike took over those responsibilities. During

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2394-632: The best lacrosse teams of all time. Senior attackman Matt Ward won the Tewaaraton Trophy as the nation's best player, was selected as a First Team All-American and the USILA Player of the Year , and was named the Final Four MVP . He also broke the record for the most goals in the NCAA tournament with 16 goals (previously held by Gary Gait with 15). Eight Cavaliers were named All-Americans—three on

2451-427: The early 2000s, the men's basketball team was outfitted by And1 , making them just one of four teams in the nation to wear that brand and making the Cavaliers their de facto flagship program (much like Oregon's relationship with Nike and Maryland's relationship with Under Armour . In 2004, the basketball team joined the rest of their Cavalier brethren in wearing Nike. In 2015, UVA renewed their Nike commitment, signing

2508-494: The fifth-largest (of 15) in the conference overall. The men's team won the NCAA Championship in 2019 and the women's team finished as Runners-Up in 1990. The men's program is one of only two (with Kentucky) to have earned a No. 1 seed in all four regions of the NCAA tournament. The Cavaliers have been ranked in the Top 5 of the AP Poll a total of 96 times in the past four decades, ranking

2565-463: The first NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship in 1959. The team made their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 1969. Bruce Arena became Virginia's soccer and assistant lacrosse coach in 1978, moving exclusively to soccer in 1985. The Cavaliers' first tournament victory, over William and Mary in 1983 (a team featuring future comedian Jon Stewart ), sparked a run to their first College Cup appearance. The Cavaliers have qualified for

2622-450: The most famous games in the history of college soccer. Played at Rutgers University on December 3 against Santa Clara , the wind chill was ten degrees below zero at kickoff and fell further during the game. Virginia led the defensive slugfest 1–0 before a rare mistake from Curt Onalfo in the 84th minute allowed Santa Clara to send the game to overtime. As NCAA rules had recently changed to limit games to one 30-minute overtime followed by

2679-517: The most national titles of any program since 1990. Virginia ranks third overall in the sport's championship history since 1959. The University of Virginia first fielded a varsity men's soccer team in 1941 as a member of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association . In their first season, the team posted a winless record, losing all nine of their matches. The Atlantic Coast Conference added soccer in 1955, followed by

2736-476: The most wins in ACC history (as of 2024, he places second ) after leading Virginia football for nineteen years. Other prominent NCAA Championship winning programs include Virginia men's lacrosse (9 national titles including 7 NCAA Championships ), Virginia men's soccer ( 7 NCAA Championships ), Virginia men's tennis (159–0 ACC win streak from 2006 to 2016; 2013, 2022, 2023, and "three-peat" 2015–2017 NCAA Championships ), and Virginia baseball (winners of

2793-412: The program 9th since 1980. In the 18-game era (2012–2019) of ACC play Virginia had four of the five teams to go 16–2 or better. UVA was also the only ACC program to finish a season 17–1 (none went undefeated). Men's coach Tony Bennett has won the prestigious Henry Iba Award three times, second only to legend John Wooden . Scott Stadium sits across from the first-year dorms along Alderman Road and

2850-496: The rivalry as the third best rivalry in college soccer. The Terrapins' departure to the Big Ten has put the annual rivalry on hiatus. Maryland recorded a 1–0 victory in the 2015 NCAA tournament and No. 12 Virginia dethroned No. 1 Maryland, 2–0, in a regular season game on September 2, 2019, helping Virginia to take over the No. 1 ranking weeks later. As intra-conference members, and having

2907-447: The school was sporting its first team. A mass meeting of the student body was called, and a star player showed up wearing a navy blue and orange scarf he had brought back from a University of Oxford summer rowing expedition. The colors were chosen when another student pulled the scarf from the player's neck, waved it to the crowd and yelled: "How will this do?" (Exactly 100 years later in 1988, Oxford named their own American football club

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2964-427: The semi-final round. In 2014, the team made a third trip to the CWS, beat Ole Miss and TCU to advance to their first ever CWS finals, but lost the three-game series to Vanderbilt 2–1. The following year , both they and Vanderbilt returned to the CWS finals in a rematch. On June 24, 2015, Virginia won in three games for their first NCAA championship in baseball and the first ACC team to win since 1955. Klöckner Stadium

3021-507: The song disclaims sole authorship. The best documentary evidence to date indicates that the song's lyrics were more or less spontaneously composed by a group of students in 1893, and that by 1894 the song was already being documented in the student annual, Corks and Curls . "The Good Old Song" was the university's de facto school song by 1900. Student referendums over the years have purported to give significance to other songs on occasion — "Virginia, Hail, All Hail!" and "The Cavalier Song" won

3078-557: The song, shout, "Fuck Tech", instead referring to Virginia Tech , UVA's biggest rival. The university released a video in September 2019 requesting that students "Keep the 'Good Old Song' good" by refraining from using either jeer. Virginia Cavaliers The Virginia Cavaliers , also known as Wahoos or Hoos , are the athletic teams representing the University of Virginia , located in Charlottesville . The Cavaliers compete at

3135-700: The team won its first NCAA championship in 2013, defeating UCLA in the finals. The Cavaliers won three consecutive NCAA championships from 2015 to 2017, defeating Oklahoma for the first two and North Carolina for the third. Virginia added back to back NCAA titles in 2022 and 2023, defeating Kentucky and Ohio State in the final matches, respectively. Virginia also won the ITA national indoor tennis championship in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Several Virginia players have won individual national championships. Somdev Devvarman won in 2007 and 2008, while Ryan Shane won in 2015 and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski won in 2017. Michael Shabaz won

3192-401: The women's program has won three national championships (in 1991 , 1993 , and 2004 ). The 2006 lacrosse season was noteworthy for the men's team as it established the best record in NCAA history with a perfect 17–0 season en route to winning the 2006 national championship . On the season, the team won its games by an average of more than eight goals per game and drew comparisons to some of

3249-490: Was a major collegiate sport, Virginia's teams boxed in Memorial Gymnasium and after Lannigan's sudden death managed to go undefeated for a six-year run between 1932 and 1937, winning the NCAA Championship in 1938. On December 4, 1953, the University of Virginia joined the Atlantic Coast Conference as the league's eighth member. Its men's basketball team won its first NCAA Championship in 2019 . The baseball team won

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