Playing the sport that they love this fall means making many sacrifices – and even then, the players know that there are no guarantees that their season will happen.

Though she calls the circumstances “really, really tough,” the director of athletics nonetheless remains upbeat about the future of UVA sports, in both the short and long terms.

The new associate head coach for rowing is a 2008 UVA alumna, former rowing team captain and ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Slaughter, whose father was a UVA professor, grew up near Grounds and attended the University in the 1950s, playing alongside men on the UVA freshman and varsity tennis teams.

He’s likely the only human being to score goals on all three NCAA levels, and then go on to make a participatory documentary about his experiences as a Sherpa in the Himalayas.

The former Cavalier basketball star, his NBA career idled by the pandemic, says he can’t remember the last time he’s gone this long without shooting a basketball.

The Lawn resident and ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year was selected in the first round of the WNBA draft Friday night. She will play for the New York Liberty.

Matt Dziama majored in history at UVA, but decided late in his undergraduate career that he wanted to get into health care. A year later, he’s on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The women’s rowing team has a large number of alumnae working in health care, including a nurse on the front lines in New York, another in Waynesboro and a current student learning the ropes in Florida.

The first-year basketball player, who is from Bologna, Italy, is staying with teammate Grant Kersey’s family in Albemarle County until he can safely go home.