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SUMMER 2024 11 cavalier sports Shane Cohen • Track & Field In his Division I NCAA Out- door Championships debut, the fourth-year from Hunting- don, Pa. — who transferred to UVA from Division II Tampa — surged from the back of the pack to run a personal-best 1:44.97 and take home the national championship in the 800 meters June 8 in Eugene, Ore. Cohen became only the second collegiate athlete to run sub-1:45 in the 800 meters this season. It marked the fourth national title by a Virginia athlete in the event and the first since Robby Andrews in 2011. The only other Cavalier to win the 800 meters crown was Paul Ereng in 1988 and 1989. Ben James • Golf The second-year from Mil- ford, Conn., was named a PING first-team All-American for the second year in a row. He con- cluded the 2024 campaign with seven top-10 performances in 11 tournaments and led UVA with a 70.31 stroke average. James capped his stellar season with runner-up medalist honors at the NCAA Championships for his second consecutive top-10 finish at the event. He tied five others with a 2-under 286 for the sec- ond-best finish by a Cavalier at the event and the best turned in during stroke play (Dixon Brooke won the individual title for UVA in 1940 when a match- play format was used to determine the champion). Amanda Sambach • Golf The third-year from Pinehurst, N.C., earned second-team All- America accolades from the Women's Golf Coaches Associa- tion — the third straight year she received recognition from the organization. She took honorable mention honors as a first-year and was also a second-team pick as a second-year. Sambach led the Cavaliers with a 71.45 stroke average and was ranked No. 11 in the final NCAA individual standings. She had seven top- 10 performances — including a first-place show- ing at Toledo's Glass City Invitational, her third career victory — in 11 total tournaments. She led UVA in scoring at the ACC Championships, NCAA Regional and NCAA Championships. HOO'S HOT Recognizing the "Who's Hoo" in UVA athletics — Cavalier student-athletes, past, present and future who are making news around the world of sports. " The guy is an incredible leader. He's an incredibly impressive young man. Plays the game even keel. Elite-level shortstop. He's the guy, when they're starting to stray a little bit, he brings them back in, and that's special. We're going to miss him. Obviously his play on the field is elite, but what I'm going to miss most about Griff O'Ferrall is the man that he is because he has an impact on everybody in the clubhouse every day." — UVA baseball head coach Brian O'Connor on third-year shortstop Griff O'Ferrall 159 Career assists — the most in program history — for fourth-year wom- en's lacrosse attacker MORGAN SCHWAB. In 2024, she also became just the second Cavalier to surpass 60 assists in a single season. Her 61 assists in 2024 trail only Lindsay Sheehan's 1986 campaign (66) for the program's single-season record. Schwab was named a second-team All- American for the first time in her career after receiving an honorable mention nod in 2023. " Washington led all receivers in the 2024 draft class with 710 yards after the catch, and now, McDaniel gets to envision Washington doing his thing with Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle burning opposing defenses with vertical routes. Opposing defenses won't be excited about all that." — Doug Farrar of USA Today on selecting former UVA wide receiver Malik Washington as his Dolphins sleeper pick (184th overall in the sixth round) of the 2024 NFL Draft 3 Nonconference opponents were added to Virginia's future football schedules this spring: Washington State, ACC rival North Carolina State and VMI. The Cavaliers will host the Cougars — whom they have never faced — on Sept. 27, 2025, and will travel to Pullman, Wash., for a game on Sept. 13, 2031. UVA will play a home-and- home nonconference series — that will not count in the ACC standings — with the Wolf- pack on Sept. 6, 2025, in Raleigh, N.C., and a home date to be determined in 2026. The Keydets will come to Charlottesville on Nov. 23, 2030, and Nov. 20, 2032. 41 Points scored by Sam Hauser— the most by a former Virginia player in an NBA Finals series — during the Boston Celtics' 4-1 series victory over the Dallas Mavericks in June 2024. Hauser joined fellow Wahoos Mamadi Diakite (Milwaukee Bucks, 2021), Jeff Lamp (Los An- geles Lakers, 1988), Rick Carlisle (Celtics, 1986), Marc Iavaroni (Phila- delphia 76ers, 1983) and Wally Walker (Portland Trail Blazers, 1977 and Seattle Supersonics, 1979) as UVA basketball alums with an NBA championship on their résumé. Hauser played 283 minutes (76 in the Finals) off the bench during the Celtics' 19-game playoff run, the most since Iavaroni played 283 (99 in the Finals) and made 13 starts (4 in the Finals) in 1983. Photo by Jamie Holt/courtesy UVA