
Virginia names Missouri State’s Amaka Agugua-Hamilton new women’s basketball coach
Amaka “Mox” Agugua-Hamilton, who had a 74-15 record in three seasons at Missouri State, is the new women’s basketball coach at Virginia, the school announced Monday.

Amaka “Mox” Agugua-Hamilton, who had a 74-15 record in three seasons at Missouri State, is the new women’s basketball coach at Virginia, the school announced Monday.

The Arabic word for veil is hijab, which literally translates as “veil” in English from Arabic.

Junior Kate Douglass and sophomore Alex Walsh combined for six individual event wins to lead the Virginia women’s swimming & diving team to its second consecutive NCAA championship.

In the hundred years since Virginia Tech admitted its first five female students, women have become a mighty force at what was once an all-male institution.

The Virginia women’s swimming & diving team remained in the lead at the 2022 NCAA Championships after winning three more NCAA titles on Friday night at the McAuley Aquatic Center.

The weekend episode of the “Jerry Ratcliffe Show” goes in-depth on UVA’s NIT second-round game at North Texas, the big Virginia-Maryland men’s lacrosse matchup, the baseball weekend series with Boston College, and the women’s swimming team’s quest for a another national championship.

Longwood introduced themselves to the nation with a commanding – and history-making – takedown of reigning Northeast Conference Champion Mount St. Mary’s, 74-70, in the NCAA’s inaugural women’s basketball First Four Thursday night.

Less than an hour after the Longwood women’s basketball team filed off the bus and into the Dial Basketball Center on the campus of North Carolina State, head coach Rebecca Tillett led off team practice with a pep talk about opportunity.

Women’s Equal Pay Day represents how far into the year an American woman must work, on average, in order to earn as much as an American man earned in the past year.

Headlined by No. 1 seeds Louisville and NC State, eight Atlantic Coast Conference teams were selected to compete in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, tied for the most of any conference.
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