Bernardino has guided UVa to 25 ACC titles (15 men's and 10 women's), and produced more than 150 All-Amer-
icans and four national champions. PHOTO BY MATT RILEY/COURTESY UVA
the past five seasons, and the women have five top-20 finishes in a row. These days the Cavaliers enter the pool
expecting success on the ACC and NCAA levels. "We are walking in defending our legacy
a little bit, which many people have contrib- uted to in the past, but we are building our
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own now," second-year Rachel Naurath told VirginiaSports.com "That said, we are not going to walk into that building thinking we have it won. We have to walk in there being the hunters and not the hunted." Under Bernardino's watch, the Cavaliers
have produced more than 150 All-Ameri- cans and four national champions. Virginia
swimming has been represented in every Olympic Summer Games since 1996, in- cluding former UVa star Ed Moses, who won a gold medal as a member of the world record-setting U.S. 400 medley relay team and a silver medal for his 100-meter breast- stroke performance at the 2000 Olympics. Bernardino himself has been named the
