The University of Virginia has churned out soccer excellence of both genders for decades, and through the first few weeks of the 2019 season, the Cavaliers teams are perfect.
Let’s start with the fourth-ranked women, because they are unblemished through more matches (8-0-0) and passed their first road test Sunday, defeating No. 8 Penn State, 2-1.
Sydney Zandi scored the go-ahead goal in the 86th minute, 26 seconds after the Nittany Lions had drawn level.
“To score the way we did right after they equalized says a great deal about our mentality,” said Cavaliers Coach Steve Swanson, who, this summer, was an assistant on the U.