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The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as ''Wahoos'' or ''Hoos'', are the athletic teams representing the University of Virginia. They compete as a member of the NCAA Division I level (FBS for football), competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference for all sports since 1953. UVA was awarded the Capital One Cup for the top NCAA men's sports program in July 2015〔(UVa wins Capital One Cup for men's sports ), retrieved June 16, 2015〕 after winning an ACC-record three NCAA titles (the College Cup in soccer, the College World Series in baseball, and the NCAA Tennis Championships) in a single academic year. The Cavaliers have placed in the Top 5 nationally several times, ranking first in 2014–15, second in 2010–11, and fourth in 2013–14.〔(2010-11 Capital One Cup standings ), accessed August 10, 2015〕〔(2013-14 Capital One Cup standings ), accessed August 10, 2015〕〔(Current Capital One Cup standings ), accessed August 10, 2015〕 Virginia has won 16 NCAA national championships in men's sports, ranking first in the ACC. The program has added an additional seven NCAA national titles in women's sports for a grand total of 23 NCAA titles, second in the ACC. Standout programs include men's soccer (7 NCAA titles), men's lacrosse (7 national championships, including 5 NCAA titles), men's tennis (159–0 ACC win streak as of 2015〔(Cavs recruit near home and win ), accessed August 1, 2015〕), baseball (2015 College World Series victory, first of any ACC team in 60 years), and men's basketball (third in ACC season titles). Women's rowing has also been very successful in the twenty-first century, winning two recent NCAA titles. The media generally refers to the University's athletic teams as simply Virginia for short, and the name of Cavaliers represents the University's official mascot of a mounted swordsman. An unofficial moniker, the Wahoos, or 'Hoos for short, based on the University's rallying cry "Wah-hoo-wah!" is also commonly used. Though originally only used by the student body, both terms — Wahoos and 'Hoos — have come into wide usage with the local media as well. In addition to the 23 official NCAA national titles, the Cavaliers have won five in indoor men's tennis, two United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) titles for men's lacrosse, and one Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) in women's indoor track and field, for 31 team national titles overall. ==Origins and history== The school colors, adopted in 1888, are orange and navy blue. The athletic teams had previously worn grey and cardinal red but those colors did not show up very well on dirty football fields as the school was sporting its first team. A mass meeting of the student body was called, and a star player showed up wearing a navy blue and orange scarf he had brought back from a University of Oxford summer rowing expedition. The colors were chosen when another student pulled the scarf from the player's neck, waved it to the crowd and yelled: "How will this do?" (Exactly 100 years later in 1988, Oxford named their own American football club the "Cavaliers," and soon after the Virginia team adopted its "curved sabres" logo in 1994, the Oxford team followed suit.) When boxing was a major collegiate sport, Virginia's teams boxed in Memorial Gymnasium and went undefeated on a six-year run between 1932 and 1937, winning an unofficial national championship in 1938. Virginia's athletic teams have participated in the Atlantic Coast Conference since the league's first year in 1953. Its men's basketball team has five times been part of the NCAA Elite Eight (1981, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1995), twice advancing to the Final Four (1981 and 1984). The baseball team won the College World Series in 2015 and has appeared in the CWS four times (2009, 2011, 2014, 2015). The football team has twice been honored as ACC Co-Champions (1989 and 1995). The soccer and lacrosse programs have both been tremendously successful. The men's soccer team has won seven national championships, four consecutively (1989, 1991–1994, 2009, 2014). The men's lacrosse team has also won seven national titles (1952, 1970, 1972, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2011), while the women have claimed three (1991, 1993, 2004). Women's cross country won national titles in 1981 and 1982. The men's tennis team won the national championship in 2013 and 2015. In 2015, Virginia was named the nation's top athletics program for NCAA men's sports by virtue of winning the Capital One Cup, which was simultaneously awarded to Stanford University for women's sports. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virginia Cavaliers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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