Cavaliers Host Coastal Carolina Saturday for Season Opener, Paint the Town Orange Sport

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia (0-0) kicks off its 136th soccer season Saturday (Aug. 30), when the Cavaliers welcome Coastal Carolina (0-0). Kickoff from Scott Stadium is slated for six p.m. and might be broadcast stay on ACC Network and Virginia Sports Radio Network. 

Saturday’s season opener can also be UVA’s annual Paint the Town Orange – WEAR ORANGE! recreation.

GAME DETAILS
Date: Saturday, Aug. 30
Time: 6 p.m.
Television: ACC Network (Chris Cotter, Max Browne &Kendra Douglas)
Radio: Virginia Sports Radio Network, Virginia Sports Mobile App, TuneIn App, SiriusXM Channel 161 or 194
Tickets: UVAtix.com
Theme: Paint the Town Orange – WEAR ORANGE!

Paint The Town Orange
The annual Paint the Town Orange pep rally, offered by the UVA Community Credit Union, will happen Friday (Aug. 29) on the Ting Pavilion on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall starting at 8 p.m. The occasion is free to the general public.

The UVA marching band and spirit squads will depart the Omni Hotel to march the Downtown Mall at roughly 7:40 p.m. Both teams will enter the Pavilion at 8 p.m. and the pep rally will characteristic appearances by head coach Tony Elliott and the Virginia soccer group. 

The Fridays After Five live performance sequence begins at 5 p.m. at Charlottesville’s Ting Pavilion. UVA cheerleaders and spirit squad members might be current to distribute the 2025 Virginia Football poster in addition to different giveaways. 

INSIDE SATURDAY’S MATCHUP 

• Saturday’s season opener towards Coastal Carolina marks the start of the 136th season of soccer at Virginia.
• Dating again to 2017, UVA has gained seven of its final eight season openers and owns an 86-40-9 (.670) file in season-opening video games.
• In UVA’s fourth recreation of the 2024 season, the Cavaliers and Coastal squared off within the inaugural assembly of the sequence. Virginia exploded for 384 dashing yards – its most in a recreation since 1998 – on the best way to a 43-24 victory, UVA’s largest margin of victory in a highway win underneath head coach Tony Elliott.
• UVA performs a Sun Belt group for the fourth straight season. The Cavaliers are 6-4 all-time towards present Sun Belt members (Coastal Carolina: 1-0; James Madison: 2-2; Old Dominion: 2-0; Southern Miss: 0-2; Troy: 1-0).
• The 2025 matchup is presently the second and remaining of the scheduled home-and-home sequence between the 2 groups.
• UVA and Coastal have been initially scheduled to open the sequence at Scott Stadium on Nov. 19, 2022, however the contest was canceled because of the tragedy on Grounds that claimed the lives of UVA soccer gamers Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry on Nov. 13, 2022.
• The Cavaliers are 80-21-7 (.773) all-time in dwelling season openers and have gained their final six season openers at Scott Stadium.
• UVA is 2-1 in each season openers and residential openers underneath Tony Elliott.
• The final two dwelling openers at Scott Stadium (Richmond-2024 and JMU-2023) have been delayed and later resumed on account of extreme inclement climate.

TOP STORYLINES 

• Year No. 4 of the Tony Elliott period begins Saturday, when UVA welcomes Coastal Carolina for the Cavaliers’ annual Paint The Town Orange – WEAR ORANGE! recreation.
• In 2024, UVA obtained off to a sizzling begin, successful 4 of its first 5 video games, together with a 43-24 rout over the Chanticleers on the highway. The Cavaliers obtained votes within the USA Today Coaches ballot for the primary time since 2021.
• This offseason, UVA added 32 transfers and 22 freshmen. Virginia leads the nation with 19 gamers who’ve been on a university soccer roster for no less than six seasons, together with three seventh-year gamers.
• The Cavaliers’ switch portal class was ranked as excessive as No. 18 by Rivals.com. The class options quite a few gamers who’ve garnered preseason nationwide recognition, together with Chandler Morris (QB), Jahmal Edrine (WR), Cam Ross (WR), Brady Wilson (OL), Cazeem Moore (DE), and Fisher Camac (DE).
• Including its season opener, Virginia will host seven video games at Scott Stadium this yr, highlighted by a Friday evening matchup towards Florida State (Sept. 26) and the regular-season finale towards in-state rival Virginia Tech (Nov. 29).
• UVA is certainly one of six Power-4 faculties to return all 10 assistant coaches. Elliott and his employees are additionally in search of to extend UVA’s ACC win whole for the third consecutive yr.
• Virginia performed 4 ranked groups in its final six video games of the 2024 season, together with three CFP groups, Notre Dame, Clemson and SMU. Notre Dame was the nationwide champion runners-up, whereas each Clemson and SMU squared off within the 2024 ACC championship recreation.
• Notable Virginia returners embrace Xavier Brown (RB), Trell Harris (WR), Dakota Twitty (TE), McKale Boley (OL), Antonio Clary (S), Kam Robinson (LB), James Jackson (LB), Jahmeer Carter (DT), Jason Hammond (DT) and Anthony Britton (DT).