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Athletics

A member of the highly competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, Virginia fields 12 intercollegiate sports for men and 13 for women. U.Va.'s intercollegiate athletics program ranked 17th in the final 2007-08 Division I United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings, which are based on the combined performance of men's and women's sports during the academic year. Virginia is one of just 15 schools to finish in the Top 30 in the Directors' Cup standings in all 15 years of the program's existence.

Virginia Athletics 2007-08
Virginia had another successful year of athletic competition in 2007-08. Teams or individuals in 21 of Virginia's 25 sports advanced to postseason competition in 2007-08, including 19 NCAA championship events. The men's lacrosse and men's tennis teams highlighted Virginia's athletics year by reaching the semifinals in NCAA Championships, while the women's rowing team finished fifth at the NCAA Championships. The men's tennis team won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's National Team Indoor Championship. Virginia teams won six conference championships in 2007-08, the most of any league member, and have won 29 ACC Championships in the last six years, the most of any school in the ACC during that period. The U.Va. women's rowing team has won nine consecutive conference championships and the men's swimming and diving team has won nine conference championships in the last 10 years.

In addition, men's tennis player Somdev Devvarman repeated as NCAA individual champion and was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, while men's tennis coach Brian Boland was named the ITA's National Coach of the Year. Seven different Virginia coaches won a total of eight ACC Coach of the Year awards in 2007-08. Women's head basketball coach Debbie Ryan was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in June of 2008 and men's head lacrosse coach Dom Starsia will be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in November of 2008.

Virginia's intercollegiate athletics teams won more than 61 percent of their contests in 2007-08 to win the 30th annual Virginia Sports Information Director's Association Division I All-Sport championship. U.Va.'s 25 men's and women's teams compiled an overall record of 262-160-8 (.619 winning percentage).

Academics
UVa had 225 student-athletes named to the 2007-08 Atlantic Coast Conference Honor Roll. The Honor Roll comprises those student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year. In addition, Virginia had six individuals named ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in their respective sports.

Virginia's graduation rate for student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility remains high. In the 2007-08 academic year, those individuals who exhausted their eligibility graduated at a rate of 94 percent.

The Virginia athletics department recognized 103 student-athletes in the spring of 2008 for either having a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.3 at the end of the fall 2007 semester or having a 3.3 grade point average or better for the spring and fall semesters of 2007.

Three Virginia athletics teams received public recognition awards for achieving Academic Progress Rates (APR) scores in the top 10 percent of their respective sports. The teams were women's soccer, softball and volleyball.

2007-08 University of Virginia Athletics — Team Accomplishments