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Efforts by first-year Virginia assistant Chad Wilt to recruit in Florida paid dividends Monday with an oral commitment from Pablo Alvarez, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound defensive back and wide receiver from Belen Jesuit School in Miami.

Six other Division I-A schools had made offers to Alvarez, who took an unofficial visit to Virginia last weekend. He picked the Cavaliers over Duke, Iowa and Northwestern.

Alvarez, the sixth player to commit to UVa for 2010,  is ranked nationally in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles and has a 22.01 clocking in the 200. The Cavaliers have only scholarship player from Florida on their roster, cornerback Mike Parker, who will be a junior this coming season.

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Matt Arkema, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound offensive lineman from Midlothian High School, has become the 10th football player to commit to Virginia Tech for 2010.

Recruiting coordinator Jim Cavanaugh was Tech's lead recruiter for Arkema, who is one of seven in-state prospects in Tech's 2010 class so far.

Maryland, Northwestern and Vanderbilt are among seven Division I-A programs that had made scholarship offers to Arkema, according to rivals.com.

Arkema was rated the No. 26 prospect in the state by Virginia Preps in ratings posted last week.

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More than 20 years after Virginia finished second on the greatest player to come out of the Nichols School, Christian Laettner, the Cavaliers received a player to be named later in 6-8, 215-pound Will Regan.

Chris Wallace of cavscorner.com quoted Regan's father, Larry, as confirming his son's commitment to new Virginia coach Tony Bennett.

Regan, who averaged 24 points and 14 rebounds as a junior, picked the Cavaliers over Stanford, Maryland, Arizona State and Providence.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The Virginia athletics department has announced it will hold an event to welcome the Cavalier baseball team back from its appearance at the 2009 College World Series at 6 p.m. Thursday.

The event will be held at UVa’s Davenport Field and is free to the public.
Parking will be available at the University Hall parking lots beginning at 5 p.m.

The event is an opportunity for fans to congratulate the team on its outstanding 2009 season. Virginia made its first appearance in the College World Series and established a record for most wins in a season by a UVa baseball team. The Cavaliers also won the ACC Championship this year.

The 2009 team will be introduced and head coach Brian O’Connor will speak during the ceremonies. At the conclusion of the event, fans will be invited to come onto the field for autographs and to interact with the team.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE--The Virginia baseball team is scheduled to leave for Omaha, Neb., and the College World Series from the Charlottesville-Albemarle airport on Wednesday, June 10 at 4 p.m. Fans who wish to see the team leave may visit the airport. It is suggested that fans arrive at the airport at 3 p.m.

The team will be leaving on a charter flight and will not go through the public terminal.  Fans are asked to park in the daily parking lot at the airport.  They can see the team from outside the fence in the rental car pick-up area.

Virginia opens College World Series play against LSU on Saturday, June 13 at 7 p.m. at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha.  The game will be televised on ESPN.

Virginia Tech head basketball coach Seth Greenberg will fill the vacancy on his staff by hiring former Virginia assistant Bill Courtney, with an announcement expected as early as Thursday.

Courtney, who lost his job at Virginia when head coach Dave Leitao was dismissed after the season, quickly latched on with new Virginia Commonwealth coach Shaka Smart and has been working for the Rams since April 15.

Courtney previously worked at Providence and George Mason and is well-connected in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore AAU circuits.

Courtney, who was at UVa for two years, will replace Stacey Palmore on the Hokies' staff. Palmore resigned to join a new staff at Georgia.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE  - Tim Taylor has been named associate head coach and Wendy Palmer has been named assistant coach, head women’s basketball coach Debbie Ryan announced Thursday.

Taylor was an assistant for UVa from 2000-05 and most recently the head boys basketball coach at Madison High School, while Palmer played for Ryan from 1992-96, is an 11-year WNBA veteran and spent the last two years as an assistant coach at Kentucky.
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