For the second-consecutive year, the Richmond City Council recognized the University of Richmond football team for its accomplishments during the season. "Richmond City Council recognizes the University of Richmond Spiders football team as co-champions of the 2009 Colonial Athletic Association football season with a league 7-1 win-loss record," City Clerk Lou B.
After 81 seasons, it is time to say goodbye to the home of the University of Richmond football program. When the Spiders take on the College of William & Mary at noon on Saturday, it will be the last time they play a regular-season game at UR Stadium in Carytown.
If you gave me a million dollars, I would spend it on sports tickets. My life has revolved around sports for as long as I can remember.
"The very first overtime game played at the Division I-AA level was our game against [the University of Massachusetts] in '87.
"I think what I'm most looking forward to is just being on campus, as simple as that sounds. ... People will see the real value of football.
The members of the University of Richmond women's basketball team are starting the season with chips on their shoulders - literally. The team has shirts with the words "CHIPS 2 Champs" on the back.
The field hockey team won 2-1 at Ohio University in today's play-in game for the 2009 NCAA Championship tournament. The Bobcats got an early lead, scoring during the first minute of the game, but would not score again as senior goalkeeper Jacki Raithel had five saves.
Gina Lucido has been waiting for one major accomplishment during her 19-year career as a field hockey coach: a conference championship. Lucido won three conference titles as a player at Ball State University, but hasn't won one as a coach.
When freshman Allie Albright started thinking about where she would play soccer in college, the one school she ruled out immediately was the University of Richmond. She said she hadn't wanted to play for her father, Peter Albright, who has been Richmond's women's soccer coach since the program's inception in 1996.
For most children, a trip to Jamaica is a vacation, but for freshman Kadeem Fyffe, it was a threat. Fyffe is a first-generation American whose parents are from Jamaica, and he said they had had little to no exposure to homosexuality until they came to the United States.
