UVa repeats as the VaSID All-Sports champion. Virginia now has 11 titles. Click here for the full news release.

“The University of Virginia won .648 percent of its intercollegiate athletic contests in 2008-09 to win the 31st annual Virginia Sports Information Director’s Association Division I All-Sport championship. This is the
Cavaliers 11th overall title, second straight and fourth in the last six years.

Old Dominion was second overall at .614 followed by Liberty at .595. Virginia won 68 percent of its men’s contests followed by Liberty at .628 and Virginia Tech at .627. On the women’s side ODU won .618 percent of it’s contests, followed by Virginia at .616 and James Madison at .612.

Virginia was paced by the baseball squad who advanced to their first ever College World Series. Men’s lacrosse advanced to the NCAA semifinals, while the Cavaliers men’s tennis reached the NCAA quarterfinals and won their second straight ITA National Team Indoor Championship. Women’s rowing placed fourth at the NCAA Nationals, women’s golf was eighth and men’s swimming placed ninth.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer is running a great three-part series about Mike Miller, a former Virginia swimmer. Miller survived a tragic car crash while training for a triathlon. Michael Vitez, the author, is a UVa graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Here’s an excerpt:

“After their steepest climb, to an elevation of 2,640 feet at Reed’s Gap, they paused to peel off a layer of clothing, eat an energy bar, and briefly savor their accomplishment.

That is the last thing Matt remembers of that day.

The trio then cycled north on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a two-lane ribbon in the sky, along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Passing them going south was a caravan of 30 classic cars, taking a foliage tour.

About 10:30 a.m., at milepost 12.2, Matt lost control of his bike. He swerved across the double yellow line, and, as he fell, flew face-first, like a torpedo, into an oncoming Porsche, the second-to-last car in the caravan.”

Read the rest of Part I here. The rest of the series is being included in the daily Sabre NewsLink.