Virginia Cavaliers head coach Bronco Mendenhall addressed the media at ACC Kickoff on Wednesday. Below is the transcript of the UVA head coach’s media session from the event.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues across the globe, the topic of vaccinations dominated conversation on Wednesday at the ACC’s Football Kickoff event. New conference commissioner Jim Phillips, athletic directors, coaches, and players were all asked about vaccinations and how they can impact the upcoming season. For Virginia, head coach Bronco Mendenhall and AD Carla Williams are hoping to put the struggles of last season behind them. According to Williams, the Cavaliers have a 90% vaccination rate among student-athletes. “The University of Virginia has a unique policy. I’m not sure how wid...
Long before they said their vows, from the very beginning of their relationship, Jordan and Naomi Jackson have supported one another through thick and thin. The pair studied at the University of Virginia. They met on campus in 2011 after she mistook him for his twin brother and they ended up striking up a conversation with one another. They would become fast friends, a companionship where both parties wanted to see each other thrive and made the effort to ensure it would happen. By 2013, they were officially a couple (even sharing the news on Instagram) and for seven years, they traveled toget...
(Commentary by Dr. Bob Newman, School of Medicine alumnus) The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us what really matters in health care and has exposed the problems in our health system. We have underfunded our public health system and were left vulnerable when we needed it most.
Meghan O’Leary grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, although she was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While attending college at the University of Virginia, she competed in both softball and volleyball. In fact, she didn’t pick up rowing until 2010. She worked for ESPN before leaving to pursue her Olympic dreams. O’Leary trains at the US Rowing Training Center in Oklahoma City and the New York Athletic Club.
No matter what happens in Tokyo, Nashvillian Alex Walsh is already part of history. Swimming the 200-meter individual medley during swimming’s U.S. Olympics Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, in May, Walsh — member of Nashville Aquatic Club, a Harpeth Hall alumna and rising sophomore at the University of Virginia — was part of one of the closest finishes in Olympics-qualifying history. Walsh touched the wall at 2:09.30. Cavaliers teammate Katie Douglass was two-hundredths of a second behind her.
The 2021 Tokyo Olympics are projected to be the hottest games on record — and not just because of the sweltering temperatures. Enter Alex Walsh, the 6-foot-tall University of Virginia sophomore who’s representing Team USA for the first time after winning the 200-meter individual medley race at the Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha.
A Mobilian will be competing for the gold in swimming this weekend. UVA swimmer Paige Madden's first event is the 400-meter freestyle this Sunday.
Even though more than 55% of people in the Blue Ridge Health District are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a doctor with UVA Health says breakthrough cases are still possible. The good news is health experts say that most vaccinated people who catch COVID-19 will only experience mild symptoms. However, they say the recent bump in cases is due to the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people can and are contracting COVID-19: “What we’re seeing is COVID asymptomatic infections or some very mild infections in people who are fully vaccinated, often in places where fewer vaccines have been given to the gen...
(Commentary) The latest salvo fired by the Republican Party of Virginia’s chairman at a University of Virginia professor needs to be called for what it is: political malfeasance and an assault on higher education.
It has now been a week since 55-year old Julia Christine Devline, a lecturer in economics at the University of Virginia, was last seen. Her white Lexus sedan was found on Saturday wrecked off Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park. SNP Specialist Claire Comer says they concluded their search in the highest probability areas on the ground, and have been working behind to investigate what may have happened. She says so far, they have no answers.
(Commentary) The major party candidates could begin with a discussion about the quiet but consequential slowdown in Virginia’s population growth. Though Virginia isn’t exactly axle-deep in ditch water, it looks increasingly like it’s in a growth rut. According to a study from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, “population growth has slowed significantly across Virginia in recent years, falling below U.S. growth levels to reach the lowest population growth rate since the 1920s.” People are still moving to Virginia. But more people are leaving, going to places like North Carolina...
Researchers for the EdTech Genome Project identified 10 variables they believe matter most to schools’ successful selection and implementation of new technology — a framework they say ed-tech companies can also use to gain insight into their K-12 customers. The research, led by the University of Virginia and nonprofit EdTech Evidence Exchange, aims to give educators and ed-tech providers a common language and context for talking about what tools do or do not work, a standard that can help inform future purchasing decisions, according to the report.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have completed the largest and most diverse genetic study of type one diabetes. The study examined more than 61,000 participants who were tested by their saliva. UVA's Dr. Stephen Rich says most type one diabetes studies examine only European ancestry but this one also studied African and Asian ancestries. Rich says studying diverse genetics has helped identify new drug targets to treat the condition that affects 1.3 million Americans.
Valley commuters who work in Charlottesville are in luck. The Shenandoah Valley Planning District Commission announced their new transit service, Afton Express. The buses will take people from areas in the Valley like Staunton, Waynesboro and Fishersville over to Charlottesville. Thompson says the buses will stop at the Fishersville and Waynesboro Park and Rides, along with the Staunton Mall. The Waynesboro Park and Ride at Town Center is still under construction. Once they’re picked up, commuters will embark on a 35-minute ride. In Charlottesville, there are stops at University of Virginia, U...
Dr. Babur B. Lateef, a member of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors, said that achieving AGB’s first goal of having a fully supportive board committed to the idea of equity is critical to the success of their new mission statement. “In these polarized times, you can be faced with bad press about critical race theory or some nonsense,” he said. “But if the leadership is unanimously behind this effort, a lot of that press will float to the side. People give up when they know the leadership is behind it.” Dr. Kevin McDonald, vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and communi...
Mamadi Diakite is making a habit of being part of championship teams. The former UVA standout capped a memorable first season of professional basketball on Tuesday night by winning an NBA title with the Milwaukee Bucks. Milwaukee’s win over the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 of the NBA Finals added to Diakite’s rapidly growing list of team championships.
Players are pumped. Authority figures are nervous. But when it comes to new NCAA rules governing an athlete’s name, image and likeness, one thing is clear: Everyone’s muddling through this new world together. “It’s a challenge, for sure, but it’s also an opportunity,” UVA athletic director Carla Williams said Wednesday at the ACC Football Kickoff. “Anyone that tells you they’ve figured it out, I’m not quite sure about that.”
“I’m very, very concerned about the fall and winter,” Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA infectious disease specialist, said last week. “I can’t express it any better. The difference is that it’s truly preventable at this point.”
When Culpeper businessman Joe Daniel was in high school, he was a typical boy of the 1950s, he says. Consumed by sports, cars and girls, he spent a semester at East Carolina University, “pretending to go to college,” he says. … In the fall of 1962, the University of Virginia opened an extension service in his hometown of Madison, just 5 miles from his house. Working at a nearby gas station, he scraped together just enough money to attend. “I didn’t mess it up this time,” he says. Instead, he became an ‘A’ student, eventually transferring to UVA’s main campus, where he earned a degree from the ...