While UVA Athletics rushed to get a new football head coach after a disappointing season—saturating media coverage, and yes, us too—UVA men’s soccer team won its sixth NCAA Championship this past weekend at WakeMed Soccer Park.
The Cavaliers, who were ranked second, beat top ranking Akron 3-2 after penalty kicks and ended their season with a 16-game winning streak.
This is UVA’s first championship since 1994 and sixth in the team’s history (1989, and consecutively from 1991 to 1994).
“I knew was only a matter of time before we won another championship,” said head coach George Gelnovatch in a press release.
“In 1997, I thought we had a real good chance and lost in the finals. In 2006, we were in the College Cup and things didn’t work out our way. I kept telling people it was not a matter of it, it was a matter of when. Today was our day.”
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