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The top returning wideout on the UVA football team, Trell Harris caught 15 passes for 221 yards and two TDs in 2024 despite missing most of the season with an injury. Harris began his college career at Kent State.

He left his hometown of Jackonsville, Fla., and arrived on Grounds in January 2019. Six-plus years later, safety Antonio Clary is preparing for his final season on the UVA football team.

In her fourth year at UVA, head women's basketball coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton has a roster that includes eight newcomers, seven of them transfers.

A cognitive science major, Kelly Ayer is graduating this weekend, but she won't be at Final Exercises on Grounds. She'll be in Columbia, S.C., for an NCAA softball regional. Ayer starts in center field for UVA, which is seeded No. 2 in the Columbia regional.

Ryan Odom is back in the college town where he lived for seven years as a boy, this time as head men's basketball coach at UVA. With show host Jeff White, Odom discusses his first seven weeks on the job.

A rising senior from Chattanooga, Tenn., linebacker Trey McDonald recently was awarded the prestigious T. Rodney Crowley Jr. Memorial Scholarship. McDonald is a student in UVA's McIntire School of Commerce.

A graduate student from Trieste, Italy, Sara Ziodato is in her fourth year at UVA, where she’s become one of the top players in college tennis. She’s pursuing a master’s degree in commerce.

Only the second head coach in the history of UVA's rowing program, Wesley Ng is in his first year on Grounds. He came to Virginia after leading the program at the University of Pennsylvania for eight seasons.

From her first year on Grounds, Amanda Sambach has starred for the UVA women's golf team. Now a senior, she's looking to add an exclamation point to her illustrious college career in the ACC and NCAA championships this spring.

A native of Zurich, Switzerland, Dylan Dietrich was ACC Freshman of the Year for 2023-24, and he's continued to shine for the UVA men's tennis team as a sophomore.

The ACC Freshman of the Year in 2022, UVA goalkeeper Matthew Nunes is nearing the end of his distinguished college lacrosse career. With 603 career saves, Nunes ranks No. 2 all-time at Virginia, behind only Tillman Johnson (700).

After graduating from Harvard last spring, tight end Tyler Neville, who grew up in Williamsburg, returned to his home state and transferred to UVA. Neville put up strong numbers for the Cavaliers last season—37 catches for 394 yards and two TDs—and hopes to make an NFL roster this year.

A junior from South Africa, Aimee Canny is a two-time Olympian and one of the many stars on the UVA women's swimming & diving team, which is seeking its fifth consecutive NCAA title.

This marks the fifth consecutive season that UVA's baseball roster has included at least one Teel. First came Kyle, now a rising star in the White Sox organization, and then his brother, Aidan, who's starting in center field for Virginia this year.

One of the United States' most promising young golfers, Ben James is in his third year at the University of Virginia, where he's twice been named a first-team All-American.

In his third year on head coach Tony Elliott's staff at Virginia, Terry Heffernan oversees an offensive line that since the end of last season has added four transfers who have 101 college starts among them.

Coming off a season that ended with the second NCAA tournament appearance in program history, the UVA softball team is looking to reach new heights this spring. The Cavaliers' leaders include senior Sarah Coon, who has started 153 games for head coach Joanna Hardin.

In Episode 395, UVA football's director of recruiting, Justin Speros, joins to show to discuss the class of transfers that joined the program this month. 

Olivia McGhee, who's from nearby Louisa County, attended basketball games at John Paul Jones Arena as a girl. She now plays there. The 6-foot-2 sophomore is the third-leading scorer (9.7) for the UVA women's team.