The first June Live Period began yesterday. I was at DeMatha yesterday and am back here today. Williford and Bennett were both at DeMatha as well. Coach Bennett is back at DeMatha again this morning watching 2025 Nate Ament of Highland School. Last night Ament had 41 points and 27 rebounds along with 6 blocks.

Former Kansas State guard Dai Dai Ames talked to @HoustonWilson about his reasons for picking UVa and why he thinks he'll fit so well with the Wahoos.

Most pundits have him as a second or third round draft pick
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Great to see how well he’s doing
https://x.com/martyhudtloff/status/1803405298662592599?s=61
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Two Hoos will be playing for gold in Paris. Very exciting. They’ll be playing on the clay at Roland Garros starting in a month.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...-heads-us-tennis-paris-olympics-missing-tokyo

Big shoes to fill – Coach Sauer led women's rowing to a pair of NCAA championships, 22 ACC championships, and nine NCAA boat titles.
https://virginiasports.com/news/2024/06/20/wesley-ng-named-rowing-head-coach-at-virginia/

On Episode 567 of the CavsCorner Podcast (“A Dream Deferred”), we talk about Elijah Gertrude officially being out for the season and then we look back on the year that was for UVa sports in 2023-2024.

Site: https://virginia.rivals.com/news/cavscorner-podcast-episode-567

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On Episode 566 of the CavsCorner Podcast (“New Car Smell”), we talk about the experience of seeing UVa’s Football Operations Center in person and discuss a pair of important extensions to coaching contracts.

Site: https://virginia.rivals.com/news/cavscorner-podcast-episode-566

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Ahead of his planned commitment next Tuesday, three-star CB Aydan West talked to @Dylan Callaghan-Croley about his UVa official visit and how the facilities plus the time with the staff really left an impression.

Yahoo Mock draft posted yesterday had him end of second round

Amid a string of official visits, in-state four-star ATH Messiah Delhomme talked to @Dylan Callaghan-Croley about his time at UVa last weekend and what stands out about the Hoos.

UVa confirms the news that Elijah was injured in a scooter accident and will miss the upcoming season.


https://virginiasports.com/news/2024/06/14/gertrude-to-miss-2024-25-mens-basketball-season/

With summer workouts underway and the season creeping ever closer, @justin ferber looks at five true freshmen who could be contributors for UVa this fall.

Nice to see UVA swimming getting the attention of The Athletic/NY Times. Can't wait for the Olympics.
For U.S. women’s Olympic swim team, a collegiate powerhouse helps fuel the charge for gold

Tied 2-2 bottom of the 7th. UNC scores with 2 outs.

Tight game.

Anybody know anything?

Starting at midnight, college coaches can officially reach out to prospects from the 2026 class. Let's use this thread to stay up to date on reports of who UVA has reached out to.

Ben came within I stroke of making the cut in the Open. Today’s round was 16 pars, 1 birdie and a double bogie which did him in. Very respectable showing, I think.
Ben Kohles made the cut on the number (5 over) and Denny McCarthy is in the middle of the pack at 2 over.

It was recently announced that Clark was not on the roster of the 2024 team. There was a list of excuses for her omission. The primary reason given was that Clark's many fans would be upset when she had little playing time. It apparently was not obvious that her fans would be more upset if she could not play at all.
The second excuse that I heard was that rookies never are on the Olympic roster. In reality, several newcomers to the NBA and WNBA have played on the Olympic team, and none of them had either the records or the following of Clark.
The third excuse was that Clark had not participated in the 2023 or 2024 Olympic tryouts. The trials were held at the same time as the NCAA basketball tournaments when Clark was occupied with her Iowa team. Two of the women who were selected have missed all of or the majority of the 2024 WNBA season.
All of those offering excuses fail to admit that Clark's participation in games has put butts in the seats and added many additional viewers to all televised games in which she plays. The ultimate goal of every business should be to make a profit and continue to grow. The WNBA has never accomplished the first of these and has been erratic in the second until this year. The failure to include Clark on the team will almost certainly diminish the odds of achieving either.

Locked 'em in!

Guess the fringe media’s head is going to explode now 😂

Another official visit weekend for the Cavaliers is here (we'll still have more recaps of this past weekend including Messiah Delhommes and Aydan West.). That being said, it will be a short list of uncommitted prospects on campus this weekend for Tony Elliott and his staff. Committed prospects that will be on campus include; QB Bjorn Jurgensen, OT Jon Adair, OG Grayson Reid, TE Justin Zames, and S Justin Rowe.

When it comes to the uncommitted prospects, the Cavaliers will be hosting DT Blake Belin, WR Nas Newkirk, OT Jim Harris Jr and ATH Davin Chandler.

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The three-star athlete out of Maryland is coming off an official visit last weekend to West Virginia that seemed to go well. The only other official visit he has scheduled is this weekend to the 'Hoos. Overall, we feel that the Cavaliers have a chance to really take the momentum in this recruitment with a strong official visit and could set themselves up very well going forward as Chandler inches closer to a decision. He's not one to talk too much, so it's hard to gauge the race between the Mountaineers and Cavaliers heading into this weekend.

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After visiting Virginia Tech and Duke over the last two weeks, Newkirk will be on The Grounds this week to see what the Cavaliers have to offer. He'll also have an official visit to Liberty scheduled for next weekend, a very regional feel to this recruitment, to say the least. There was a sense Virginia Tech was the potential leader here coming into June and the Hokies also got the first visit with Newkirk, which of course is notable as well. Now, everyone else gets to play the catch up game. The Cavaliers will do their best to impress the North Carolina standout this weekend.

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The Cavaliers are battling the likes of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in this recruitment as they head into the weekend. Harris visited the Bearcats last weekend and is scheduled to be in Pittsburgh next weekend as well. There were some bigger dogs in this fight as well before with Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missouri, and Iowa State at one point showing quality interest but at this point, no official visits have been scheduled with any of those programs, but something just to keep in mind going forward. That being said, this recruitment still appears to be a bit wide open and the Cavaliers have a great opportunity this weekend to jump into the driver's seat for the Michigan offensive lineman. Not necessarily a commitment watch here but definitely a recruitment that we feel good about the Cavaliers chances.

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Finally, there's New York defensive tackle Blake Belin who is in the midst of an official visit schedule that features Syracuse, Georgia Tech, Virginia, and Duke. The Blue Devils are the perceived leader in this recruitment currently thanks to Belin's family ties to the program as his older brother, Henry Belin is a signal caller for the Blue Devils but the Cavaliers have done a very good job in this recruitment as well and are in striking distance here. Belin has developed a great relationship with the Cavaliers coaching staff over the last few months including defensive tackles coach Kevin Downing and graduate assistant Jonathan Celestin. We'll see if the 'Hoos can give themselves the upper leg this weekend heading into his final official visit at Duke next weekend.

I know that I have a Gabapentin issue with my short term memory..LOL , but I could have sworn that we had 2.. 4* football players on the list for 25 . 🤔

Four-star DT Christian Evans, one of the top players in Virginia in 2025, talked to @Dylan Callaghan-Croley about his official visit to UVa this past weekend and what stood out about his time in Charlottesville.

Woolfolk not as sharp as last Saturday so far. K State running aggressively on the base paths. Two stolen bases already in the bottom of the second. They are home team today. Just worked out of a jam in the bottom of the second. Tied at 2 after 2.