2011 Van earthquakes, 23 October earthquake, International response
Rescue personnel were able to extricate twenty-three survivors from the rubble of 2 hotels and one apartment building, but the bodies of 7 others were also retrieved. Since most buildings were evacuated after the October 2011 earthquake, only those 3 buildings were occupied, otherwise the death toll could have been worse.


2011 Van earthquakes, 9 November earthquake
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) southwest of Van (near the town of Edremit) at a shallow depth of 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) on 9 November at 21:23 local time (19:23 UTC). Early reports from Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay stated that the event caused five deaths in the collapse of several hotels, though 25 buildings in total had fallen, with most of those buildings being empty since the earthquake a month earlier. The Turkish Anatolian Agency reported that the event was followed by an aftershock measuring 4.4.


2011 Van earthquakes, 9 November earthquake
Among the buildings collapsed by the earthquake was the six-story Bayram Hotel, which was hosting journalists and rescue workers. A cameraman for the Cihan News Agency had left the hotel just prior to the earthquake and said that some journalists trapped in the rubble in the building had sent text messages to colleagues asking to be rescued. The building, which had been renovated the previous year, was forty years old.


2011 Van earthquakes, 9 November earthquake
A Japanese aid worker who had traveled to Turkey for the October earthquake relief work was reported to have been pulled alive from the rubble of the Bayram hotel but later died of his injuries at a hospital. Residents were angry with authorities for not having closed the building after it suffered cracks and a damaged elevator in the large earthquake a month earlier.


2011 Van earthquakes, 9 November earthquake
The Kandilli earthquake center of Turkey said that the 9 November earthquake was an independent earthquake within the same earthquake system.


2011 Van earthquakes, Disaster management
The government response in terms of emergency assistance was marginal. Temporary shelter was provided mainly by container houses. Approximately 20,000 containers were sent to the earthquake zone. The main problem with this was supplying so many containers in such a short time. Approximately four months after the Van earthquake, the container cities were settled. As a result of this the victims could only be accommodated in container cities after March 2012. Until March 2012 most of the victims set up their own tents for shelter. Many people preferred nylon based materials for economic reasons. Nylon has low ignition temperature and during winter many tent fires occurred. 12 people are dead and more than 160 people are injured because of tent fires


2011 Vancouver Island Shootout
The 2011 Vancouver Island Shootout was held from November 11 to 13 at the Juan de Fuca Curling Club in Victoria, British Columbia as part of the 2011–12 World Curling Tour. The purses for the men's and women's events will be CAD$10,500 and CAD$10,000, respectively.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
The 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public disturbance in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2011. The riot broke out almost immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, which won the Stanley Cup for Boston. At least 140 people were injured during the incident, including 1 critically. At least 4 people were stabbed, 9 police officers were injured, and 101 people were arrested.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
Four years after the riot, police finished their investigation and recommended the final charges against two suspects, bringing the total to 887 charges against 301 people.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Background
City organizers had set up a two-block long fan zone on six-lane Georgia Street near the Rogers Arena. Two big screen TVs were set up for fans to watch the game. Temporary fences and gates were set up to provide checkpoints where police could control access to the area and check for alcohol (which police generally poured out when found). Following recommendations stemming from the 1994 riot, all liquor stores in the area were closed earlier in the day. Crowds had been generally well-behaved in the fan zone for the previous six games, with roughly 70,000 attending each event. Similar though smaller events had been very successful during the 2010 Winter Olympics. For the final game, an estimated 100,000 people crowded into the area, and people found ways to enter the zone without being checked for alcohol. Planned corridors to allow movement of emergency vehicles became impassable.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Background
Violence frequently occurs in the wake of sporting events in North America and Europe. The 2011 Vancouver riot is consistent with past Stanley Cup riots in Canada. Since the 1980s, Vancouver itself had riots following the Canucks' defeat in 1994, while Edmonton Oilers fans set fires and looted in the Whyte Avenue ("Blue Mile") area of Edmonton when the team qualified for the 2006 finals, and Montreal was vandalized by Montreal Canadiens fans after both the 1986 and 1993 titles, and during the 2008 and 2010 playoffs.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Riot
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, the riot began to take shape as the game came to a close at 7:45 p.m., with some spectators throwing bottles and other objects at the large screens in the viewing area. Boston Bruins flags and Canucks jerseys were set afire, and soon some rioters overturned a vehicle in front of the main post office. According to one eyewitness, a group who was heard chanting "Let's go riot, let's go riot" as early as the first period of the game were among those responsible for flipping the first car.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Riot
Fist fights broke out when people standing on porta-potties fell when others tipped the porta-potties over. People began jumping on the car that had been first overturned; it was set afire at 7:46. With a crowd of onlookers chanting "burn the truck", a second vehicle in the same area was lit ablaze. Firemen were able to put it out,but the truck was again set afire after it was overturned. In a nearby parking lot, two Vancouver Police squad cars were later also set on fire. In total, 17 cars were burned, including police cars.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Riot
Windows were smashed in a bank and various businesses along the West Georgia corridor, some of which were also looted. Riot police eventually managed to push the rioters away from Georgia, onto Granville Street and Robson Street, where the rioters then caused further substantial damage, breaking the windows of several shops and looting. Some of the stores affected were Future Shop, Sears and Chapters bookstore. One man was sent to hospital in critical condition after he attempted to jump from the Georgia Viaduct onto another platform and fell.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Riot
Several hundred theatregoers were attempting to leave after a showing of the Broadway musical Wicked but were trapped and remained inside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, which was situated in the riot zone. Transit authorities diverted or halted bus routes normally running through the affected area, and police closed bridge lanes into the city so that people could leave the area but further arrivals were restricted. By midnight, the majority of the crowd had dispersed. The Vancouver Police Department made 101 arrests during the riot. 85 people were arrested for breach of peace, eight for public intoxication and eight for breaking and entering, assault or theft.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Response
In the immediate aftermath, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson initially attributed the situation to "a small group of troublemakers". Vancouver Police Department Chief Jim Chu said that instigators appeared to be some of the same individuals involved in a protest on the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and that they came equipped with eye protection, gasoline and other tools. He called them "criminals and anarchists" who disguised themselves as fans. The idea that anarchists were involved in the violence was rejected by UBC political science professor Glen Coulthard, and others in a Vancouver Sun article on June 24.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Response
"That this gets tagged as anarchist activity is just more of an assumption or bias that has been around for a long time," said Coulthard. "[A]narchists are a convenient scapegoat for the police to deflect responsibility for what happened," said another commentator. One critic indicated that authorities had made several mistakes in the planning for the crowd—among them allowing parked cars near the screens and leaving newspaper boxes nearby which could be used as projectiles.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Cleanup
After the riot, thousands of volunteers organized via texting and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to clean up the damage. The estimated 15,000 volunteers, many taking a day off work, stated that they went downtown to clean up the damage to "... show that not all Canucks fans are like that". Streets were reportedly clean by 10 am, with volunteers having shown up with brooms and dustpans to clean the city. Boarded up windows were covered in apologies and defences of the city's reputation. In response, the Hudson's Bay Company, a major retailer in the area, hosted a free pancake breakfast in thanks.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Criminal prosecution
As many as 70 officers from eight different police agencies formed the Integrated Riot Investigation Team, tasked with sifting through hundreds of hours of video and other evidence to identify rioters. Several participants in the riots turned themselves in to police after their faces were broadcast on TV, including the person responsible for setting the first car on fire. More than 1,000,000 photos and 1,200 – 1,600 hours of video recorded by citizens were sent to the Vancouver Police Department as evidence.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Criminal prosecution
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) offered their facial-recognition software to the police in an attempt to aid in their criminal investigation of the riot. In 2012, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, Elizabeth Denham, ruled that police could not use the software without a warrant requesting the information.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Criminal prosecution
By July 2013, police had recommended 1,204 criminal charges against 352 suspected rioters. In July 2015, over four years after the riots, the last two suspects were charged. By then, a total of 887 criminal charges had been laid against 301 suspects, 274 of whom pled guilty. However police said they would continue to act on any tips they are provided and future charges could be laid.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Social media
Following the riot, people were initially concerned about the role that social media may have played in fueling the riot. Christopher Schneider, a sociologist from the University of British Columbia says that there is not a lot of evidence to support that theory. Also important to note is that it can be difficult to discern sarcasm from honest, real intentions online. Social media did, however, play a large role during and after the riot.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Social media
Many participants in the riot stood and posed for photographs, with some even posting the photos on their own social media accounts. Photos and videos were also taken by onlookers intent on documenting the riot. In the aftermath, those photos and videos were used by many local people outraged by the riot, in an effort to tag and identify rioters and looters on Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites, and to provide additional information to police for prosecution.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Social media
Community participation in assisting police to identify the rioters has been described as unprecedented,and police admitted to being overwhelmed by the amount of evidence provided. While riot instigators were described by police as a small group of anarchists, the collected photographs and videos revealed that many participants were not connected and had never been arrested before. Online shaming campaigns resulted in some riot participants being fired from their jobs and removed from athletic teams.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Social media
In some cases, violence was threatened against those identified as rioters, prompting one family to flee its home,and others to express concern about the potential of mob mentality online. The Vancouver Police Department appealed to citizens, online and otherwise, not to engage in acts of vigilante justice. A published study on social media vigilante justice, or "crowd-sourced policing", authored by sociologists Christopher Schneider and Daniel Trottier, concluded that online vigilantes can slow police investigations.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Social media
An issue related to social media and the riot police investigation was that a number of people involved in the rioting were under the age of 18. Names of minors are banned in the legal system. On social media, however, the sharing of images and videos alongside public shaming online can end up identifying the accused.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Financial losses
CBC News reported that the destruction caused by the rioters was worse than the riot that followed the Canucks loss in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals, particularly the looting aspects. Early estimates suggested the losses due to vandalism, theft, and damage to property to be nearly $4.2 million. Several large-scale stores such as London Drugs, The Bay, Sears Canada and Future Shop were among many that were looted.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Investigation
A report released September 1, 2011 says that contributing factors to the riot were the number of people who attended the event and the level of alcohol consumption. With 155,000 people in an area meant to hold the expected 50,000, the situation deteriorated into a riot with hot spots spread over a large area, and the police's ability to control it was impeded by communication problems and location of equipment.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath, Investigation
An independent review commissioned by the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver released its 396-page report on August 31, 2011.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Media coverage
The riots sparked intense media coverage and attention on the local, national, and international level. Local media coverage of the riots began almost immediately after the game ended, with the local CBC, CTV and Global BC stations all running news coverage of the riots, with CTV and CBC doing so from studios located in downtown Vancouver itself. CBC News Network started running live coverage in conjunction with its nationally broadcast evening news show The National, with one reporter calling in her reports from inside the riot.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Media coverage
Prominent publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times and USA Today published editorials critical of the riots and its participants, as well as the city, noting the stark contrast between the Stanley Cup playoffs and the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Boston Herald provided coverage of the riots in addition to coverage of the Bruins' Stanley Cup celebrations, with other Boston media outlets providing their coverage of the riots.


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Media coverage
A photograph depicting a young female lying on her back in a riot-torn street between lines of police, being consoled by a young male who holds her in an embrace in an apparent kiss, became an iconic image of the riots. Sports Illustrated called it "the most compelling sports image of the year". At first, many viewers suspected the scene had been staged. Evidence soon revealed that the Canadian woman, Alexandra Thomas of Coquitlam, British Columbia, had been knocked down by police; her Australian boyfriend, Scott Jones from Perth, Western Australia, was comforting her. In June 2016, it was reported that Thomas and Jones live in Perth, Australia, where they sleep under a poster copy of the photograph. The photograph is used as the album cover of A Place for Us to Dream, a compilation album by the English alternative rock band Placebo.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season
The 2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season was the Whitecaps' debut season in Major League Soccer. The MLS club has incorporated the history of its NASL and various lower division predecessors into its marketing campaigns, reflecting 36 years of professional soccer in Vancouver.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season
On March 19, 2011, Vancouver Whitecaps defeated Toronto FC at Empire Field in their league opening match by a score of 4 – 2. It was the first match between two Canadian clubs in league history. Vancouver Whitecaps gave up the 8,000th goal in league history in the game. The regular season ended at BC Place on October 22, 2011 with a 2 – 1 loss to Colorado Rapids leaving them in last place overall.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Stats, Starting XI
Last updated: August 27, 2011Source: Squad stats and Start formations. Only competitive matches. Using the most used start formation. Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Preseason
Before a six-week winter break, the Whitecaps trained for a week in Oxnard, California. During that period, they played an inter-squad scrimmage, as well as two matches against local fourth-tier PDL club Ventura County Fusion. The Whitecaps defeated the Fusion 2–1 on December 2, with goals from Terry Dunfield and Nizar Khalfan, and 3–1 on December 8, with goals from Nizar Khalfan, Kyle Porter and Terry Dunfield.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer
Vancouver Whitecaps FC's first regular season in Major League Soccer begins March 19, 2011 and ends October 22, 2011.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, League table
(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary
Last updated: October 22, 2011Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  D = Matches drawn;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Nutrilite Canadian championship
The club participates in the Canadian Championship. The champion of the tournament qualifies for the Preliminary Round of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Nutrilite Canadian championship
For the first time in the tournament's history, a playoff format was used as opposed to a round robin format. The tournament seeding was based on the results of the 2010 edition of the tournament, with Vancouver being seeded second. In their semi-final playoff with the Montreal Impact, the Whitecaps won the opening leg in Montreal 1–0 on a goal by Terry Dunfield. The second leg was contested in Vancouver, where Montreal led 1–0 after full-time, for an aggregate score of 1–1. Because both teams had scored one away goal, extra time was needed to determine the aggregate winner. In extra time, Mouloud Akloul scored on a rebound following an Alain Rochat free kick to send the Whitecaps to the final versus Toronto FC.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, World Football Challenge
On April 14 it was announced that the Whitecaps would host Manchester City as part of the 2011 World Football Challenge.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Cascadia Cup
The Whitecaps have had a long-standing rivalry with the Pacific Northwest clubs Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers, dating back to the 1970s when ancestry clubs of the same name played in the original and now-defunct North American Soccer League. The tri-member tournament will continue with the expansion of the Whitecaps and the Timbers. The winner is determined through league matches between the sides, and the club with the best record against both sides wins the trophy.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Competitions, Cascadia Cup
The Cascadia Cup was awarded to the Seattle Sounders on September 24 when the Sounders defeated the Whitecaps 3–1 at Empire Field. Vancouver Whitecaps FC finished in 3rd place after losing to the Portland Timbers on October 2.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Miscellany, Allocation ranking
Vancouver is in the No. 13 position in the MLS Allocation Ranking. The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.S. National Team player who signs with MLS after playing abroad, or a former MLS player who returns to the league after having gone to a club abroad for a transfer fee. Vancouver started 2011 ranked No. 1 on the allocation list and used its ranking to acquire Jay DeMerit. A ranking can be traded, provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Miscellany, International Roster Spots
Vancouver has 10 international roster spots. Each club in Major League Soccer is allocated 8 international roster spots, which can be traded. Vancouver acquired its first additional spot from Chivas USA on November 24, 2010 for use in the 2011 season only. On the same day Vancouver acquired a second additional spot from Colorado Rapids. Press reports did not indicate when, or if, this spot returns to Colorado. There is no limit on the number of international slots on each club's roster. The remaining roster slots must belong to domestic players.


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Miscellany, International Roster Spots
For clubs based in Canada, a domestic player is either a player with the legal right to work in Canada (i.e., Canadian citizen, permanent resident, part of a protected class) or a U.S. citizen, a permanent U.S. resident (green card holder) or the holder of other special U.S. status (e.g., refugee or asylum status).


2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Miscellany, Future Draft Pick Trades
Future picks acquired: None, but Vancouver has acquired undisclosed future considerations from Toronto FC which may or may not include draft pick(s). Future picks traded: None.


2011 Vancouver municipal election
The City of Vancouver held a municipal election on November 19, 2011, along with other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia. All local government elections were for a three-year period. The ballot elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. A $180 million capital borrowing plan was also put to a vote.


2011 Vancouver municipal election
Incumbent mayor Gregor Robertson and the Vision Vancouver Party sought and won their second term in office following their victory in the 2008 election. All Vision Vancouver candidates won seats in their respective categories.


2011 Vancouver municipal election
Suzanne Anton lost her bid as mayor but the NPA team gained seats in council, park board and school board. COPE was nearly wiped out this election, losing both seats in city council. Its only elected official was school board trustee incumbent Allan Wong. On December 8, 2013, Wong resigned from the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) and joined Vision as a sitting trustee.


2011 Vancouver municipal election
The Green Party of Vancouver had its first elected city councillor with Adriane Carr, but lost its incumbent seat on the park board. New party Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) did not win any seats in council. NSV leader Randy Helten placed a distant third in the mayoral race.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results
The nomination period officially opened on October 4, 2011, and closed on October 14, 2011. This was the second election where Vision Vancouver and COPE signed an electoral agreement to support each other's candidates for election.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Mayor
Twelve candidates sought election to the position of mayor. Four were affiliated with a political party and eight were independents. Incumbent mayor Gregor Robertson of Vision Vancouver was re-elected.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, City councillors
Ten councillors were elected out of 41 candidates. Of the candidates, 28 were affiliated with a political party, and 13 were independent. Seven incumbent councillors sought re-election: six from Vision Vancouver and one from COPE. Of those subsequently elected, Vision Vancouver held seven seats, the NPA two and the Green Party of Vancouver one.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Park board commissioners
Seven commissioners were elected out of 21 candidates. Of the candidates, 15 were affiliated with a political party, and six were independent. Four incumbent commissioners sought re-election: three from Vision Vancouver and one from the Green Party of Vancouver. Of the elected commissioners, Vision held five seats and the NPA two.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, School board trustees
Nine school board trustees were elected out of 20 candidates. Of the candidates, 15 were affiliated with a political party, and five were independent. Seven incumbent trustees were seeking re-election: three from Vision Vancouver, three from COPE, and one from the NPA. Of the elected trustees, five were from Vision Vancouver, three from the NPA and one from COPE.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Capital Plan questions
1. Are you in favour of council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014, to borrow an aggregate $65,800,000 for the following purposes?


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Capital Plan questions
2. Are you in favour of council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014, to borrow an aggregate $66,300,000 for the following purposes?


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Candidates and results, Capital Plan questions
3. Are you in favour of council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014, to borrow an aggregate $47,700,000 for the following purposes?


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Voter and party statistics, Voter turnout
Of the 418,878 registered voters, there were 144,823 recorded ballots, marking the voter turnout at 34.57 percent. This is an increase from the 30.79-percent turnout during the previous municipal election in 2008.


2011 Vancouver municipal election, Voter and party statistics, Elected percentage by party
Of the parties represented, only Vision Vancouver had its entire slate of candidates elected in all fields.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team
The 2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2011 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team played its home games at Hawkins Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The team was coached by Tim Corbin in his ninth season at Vanderbilt.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team
The Commodores reached the 2011 College World Series, falling in the semifinals to runner-up Florida.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Regionals
The Commodores were announced as a host for the Nashville regional, which featured #6 national seed Vanderbilt, Oklahoma State, Troy, and fellow Nashville university Belmont. Vanderbilt marched through the regional, defeating 4 seed Belmont 10–0, 3 seed Troy 10–2, and Belmont again in the final by the score of 6–1. A year later, Vanderbilt coach Josh Holliday would become the head coach of his alma mater and 2011 regional participant, Oklahoma State University.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Regionals
In the SuperRegional, Vanderbilt drew the winner of the Corvallis regional, Oregon State. With first-round draft pick Sonny Gray on the mound, the Commodores jumped out to a quick 4–0 lead in the first before coasting to an 11–1 win. Mike Yastrzemski hit a three-run home run in the 4th inning.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Regionals
The second game of the series also went the way of the Commodores, led by first baseman Aaron Westlake's three home runs. Vanderbilt defeated the Beavers 9–3 to punch their first to the College World Series, the first in the history of the school.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Ranking Movements
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Commodores played their seven home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922. The team's head coach was James Franklin, who was in his first year at Vanderbilt. Hired at Vanderbilt on December 17, 2010, he was previously the offensive coordinator and "head coach in waiting" at the University of Maryland.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in the conference's Eastern Division since its formation for the 1992 season. Vanderbilt completed the 2011 regular season with an overall record of 6–6 and a mark of 2–6 in conference play, finishing in a tie with Kentucky for fourth place in the SEC East. They were invited to the Liberty Bowl where they were defeated by Cincinnati 24–31 to finish the season 6–7. 2011. The seniors of the 2011 Vanderbilt football team became the first class in program history to qualify for two bowl games while at the school. Vanderbilt had only been to bowls in 1955 VS Auburn, 1974 VS Texas Tech, 1982 VS Air Force, and 2008 VS Boston College.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Coaching changes
At the end of the 2010 season, head coach Robbie Caldwell resigned from Vanderbilt. After a long nationwide coaching search, in which Gus Malzahn, Auburn's offensive coordinator, nearly accepted the job, James Franklin was hired as the 27th head football coach at Vanderbilt University. Franklin proceeded to hire John Donovan as the new offensive coordinator and Bob Shoop as the new defensive coordinator. Franklin also retained Herb Hand as offensive line coach from the previous Vanderbilt staff, and hired Chris Beatty from West Virginia, who had been Percy Harvin's high school coach, as the new wide receivers coach.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Recruiting
On February 2, 2011, Franklin announced a football recruiting class of 21 athletes. The class has been hailed as one of the best in Vanderbilt football history, especially because Vanderbilt was able to persuade several prospects from larger and nationally known schools, such as Lafonte Thourogood from Virginia Tech, Dillon Van der Wal from Arizona State, and Barron Dixon from Mississippi State. Lafonte Thourogood and Dillon van der Wal were both rated as four star recruits by Scout.com.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Connecticut
This was the third meeting between these schools. Vandy holds a one-game lead in the series at 2 wins to 1 loss.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Mississippi
One of college football's oldest rivalries, Vanderbilt and Old Miss have played 85 times since 1894. Vandy won the first 19 of those games, and Ole Miss did not score in the first ten games. Vandy trails at 37–47–2 Vandy won last game 30–7.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
Vandy first played USC in 1961, but they did not play each other again until 1992. They have played each year since, with Vandy losing the first seven games. Vandy trails the overall series 4–16, and USC has won the last two games. The score of the most recent game was 3–21 in favor of South Carolina.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Alabama
Vandy has played Alabama 78 times since 1903. Vandy won the first five games, but have only won ten more times since. Vandy trails the all-time series 15–59–4. Alabama has won the last 20 games (the 1993 games was forfeited). They last played in 2007, with the result a 10–24 Alabama win.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Vandy has been playing Georgia almost every year since 1893. Vandy trails 18–51–2 all-time. Georgia has won the last three games, and the last game was 10–34 Georgia.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Army
Army and Vandy have played eight games since 1968. The series is tied at 4 games each. In 2009, Army won their last meeting in overtime, 13–16.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
Vandy has played Arkansas eight times since 1949. Vandy trails the series 2–6, and Arkansas has won the last two last games. The last game was an Arkansas win, 14–49. Vanderbilt had a chance to tie the game with :12 left in the 4th quarter, but Carey Spear missed a 27-yard field goal and hooked it right. The Hogs survived their second upset of the season, with Ole Miss being their first.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Florida
Vandy and Florida have been playing since 1945. Vandy trails 9–33–2, and Vandy has lost the last 20 games. In their last meeting, Florida won 14–55.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Kentucky
Vandy and Kentucky have played 83 times since 1896. Vandy won the first nine games, and Kentucky did not score on Vandy for the first eleven games. Vandy trails 38–41–4, and Kentucky has won the last two games. The last game was a 20–38 Kentucky victory.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
Vandy and Tennessee have played 105 times. Vandy did not lose for the first 12 games, but since 1928 UT has dominated the series. Overall, Vandy trails 27–72–5. Tennessee has won the last five games in the series, and the last game was a 10–24 Tennessee win.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest
Vandy and Wake Forest have played 13 times since 1964, and this is the only series in which Vandy plays during the 2011 football season that Vandy holds the all-time lead in, at 7–6–0. Wake, however, has won the last three. The last game was a 13–34 Wake Forest win.


2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati
Vanderbilt and Cincinnati had met six times, dating back to 1898. Cincinnati holds the lead with 4 wins.


2011 Varsity Cup
The 2011 Varsity Cup was contested from 7 February to 11 April 2011. The tournament (also known as the FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth season of the Varsity Cup, an annual inter-university rugby union competition featuring eight South African universities.


2011 Varsity Cup
The tournament was won by  UCT Ikey Tigers for the first time; they beat  UP Tuks 26–16 in the final played on 11 April 2011. TUT Vikings won their relegation play-off match against  CUT Ixias to remain in the Varsity Cup for 2012.


2011 Varsity Cup, Competition, Varsity Cup
There were eight participating universities in the 2011 Varsity Cup. These teams played each other once over the course of the season, either home or away.


2011 Varsity Cup, Competition, Varsity Cup
Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored 4 or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by 7 points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2011 Varsity Cup, Competition, Varsity Cup
The top 4 teams qualified for the title play-offs. In the semi-finals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that finished fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals played each other in the final, at the home venue of the higher-placed team.


2011 Varsity Cup, Competition, Varsity Shield
There were five participating universities in the 2011 Varsity Shield. These teams played each other twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away.


2011 Varsity Cup, Competition, Varsity Shield
Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored 4 or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by 7 points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2011 Varsity Cup, Competition, Varsity Shield
The top two teams qualified for the title play-offs. The team that finished first had home advantage against the team that finished second.


2011 Varsity Cup, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2011 Varsity Cup competition:


2011 Varsity Cup, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2011 Varsity Shield competition:


2011 Varsity Cup, Varsity Cup, Top scorers
The following sections contain only points and tries which have been scored in competitive games in the 2011 FNB Varsity Cup.


2011 Varsity Cup, Varsity Shield, Top scorers
The following sections contain only points and tries which have been scored in competitive games in the 2011 FNB Varsity Shield.


2011 Varsity Cup, Promotion/Relegation Play-Offs
TUT Vikings remain in the Varsity Cup competition and  CUT Ixias remain in the Varsity Shield competition.


2011 Vattenfall Cyclassics
The 2011 Vattenfall Cyclassics was the 16th edition of the Vattenfall Cyclassics, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 21 August 2011, over a distance of 215 km (133.6 mi), starting and finishing in Hamburg, Germany. It was the 22nd event of the 2011 UCI World Tour season.


2011 Vattenfall Cyclassics
Fresh from his victory in the Eneco Tour a week before the Cyclassics, Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen – who, in 2010, was second to Tyler Farrar, who elected to compete in the concurrent Vuelta a España in 2011 – took the victory in a sprint finish out of a large group of riders, who had broken away after a split in the field. Boasson Hagen had attacked from 250 metres out, and held off Gerald Ciolek, who took second place for Quick-Step, while Borut Božič completed the podium for Vacansoleil–DCM.


2011 Vegalta Sendai season
The 2011 Vegalta Sendai season was Vegalta Sendai's second consecutive season, and fourth overall, in J. League Division 1. It also includes the 2011 J. League Cup, and the 2011 Emperor's Cup.


2011 Vehbi Emre Tournament
The 29th Vehbi Emre Tournament 2011, was a wrestling event held in Istanbul, Turkey between 29 and 30 January 2011.


2011 Vehbi Emre Tournament
This international tournament includes competition men's Greco-Roman wrestling. This ranking tournament was held in honor of Turkish Wrestler and manager Vehbi Emre.


2011 Veikkausliiga
The 2011 Veikkausliiga was the eighty-first season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 2 May 2011 and ended on 29 October 2011. HJK were the defending champions and successfully defended their title.


2011 Veikkausliiga
The pre-season was severely affected by license revocations to two teams, which eventually resulted in a later than originally scheduled begin date and an increase of scheduled matches from 26 to 33 per team.


2011 Veikkausliiga, Teams
The league was originally supposed to have 14 teams, but AC Oulu was refused a license due to club's bad economic situation and Tampere United was excluded from every official competition of Football Association of Finland due to breaking the rules of the association, and the league will therefore be played with only 12 teams. AC Oulu was, however, obtained a license for Ykkönen, where it will play this season.


2011 Veikkausliiga, Teams
FC Lahti were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2010 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions RoPS. 13th-placed Veikkausliiga team JJK and Ykkönen runners-up FC Viikingit competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in this season. JJK won 3–1 on aggregate and thereby retained their league position once again.


2011 Veikkausliiga, Results
As a consequence of the decreased number of teams immediately prior to the start of the season, the schedule for this season had to be significantly altered. Teams will now play each other a third time after a regular double-round robin schedule; each team will hence play a total of 33 matches. The schedule for the additional round of matches was determined by the final positions of the 2010 season, with the best six teams being assigned an extra home match in the process.


2011 Velayat International Cup
The 2011 Velayat Cup was a friendly football tournament that took place in Tehran in the Iran in November 2011.


2011 Velayat International Cup, Participating teams
Totally 3 teams get permission to participate in the tournament "2011 Velayat Cup".


2011 Ventforet Kofu season
The 2011 Ventforet Kofu season was Ventforet Kofu's first season in J. League Division 1 since 2007, making it the third overall in J1. Ventforet finished 15th and were relegated to Division 2. Ventforet got knocked out in the first round of the 2011 J. League Cup and third round of the 2011 Emperor's Cup.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season
The 2011 season for the Veranda's Willems–Accent professional cycling team began in January at the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise and ended in October at the Nationale Sluitingsprijs. It was the squad's fourth season as a professional cycling team, although its first as a UCI Professional Continental team; having been part of the UCI Continental Circuits since their foundation in 2008, the team acquired a Professional Continental licence following meetings of the UCI Licence Commission in November 2010.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season
Thus, in order to compete in any UCI World Tour event, the team had to be invited in advance, by race organisers. Although the team was not selected to ride any of the three Grand Tours held in 2011, Veranda's Willems–Accent was invited to six World Tour races, all held in either the Netherlands or Belgium; Gent–Wevelgem, the Tour of Flanders, the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne, Liège–Bastogne–Liège – all single-day races held in either March or April – and the Eneco Tour, a stage race held in August.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season
Veranda's Willems-Accent took only five victories during the 2011 season, of which three came in summer stage races. Steven Caethoven took the final stage victory at the Delta Tour Zeeland in the Netherlands, while Stefan van Dijk and Jurgen Van Goolen won stages at the Route du Sud race, held in the south of France. The team also recorded no fewer than 28 top-ten placings in single-day races, including two victories for Evert Verbist at the Beverbeek Classic in February and Gregory Habeaux at Dwars door het Hageland in July. Although not winning any of the races, van Dijk was the team's most consistent performer, and ended the season in sixth place in the UCI Europe Tour points standings, while Staf Scheirlinckx took an eighth place finish at World Tour level, in the Tour of Flanders.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, 2011 roster
In line with the squad's promotion to the second-tier of UCI-registered racing, Veranda's Willems–Accent were allowed to utilise more riders on their roster as a UCI Professional Continental team. As a UCI Continental team, the team was only allowed to have a maximum of sixteen riders on their roster at any one time, while at Professional Continental level, rosters could range from sixteen to twenty-five riders.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, 2011 roster
Over the course of the season, the team had twenty full-time riders on their books – up from sixteen riders in 2010, with twelve riders joining the team and eight riders leaving – while An Post–Sean Kelly rider Dries Hollanders and Kevin Van Den Noortgate, a rider from amateur team EFC-Quick Step, joined the team in the second half of the season, on short-term contracts, serving as trainee riders or stagiaires. As such, many of the riders drafted in by the squad were experienced in the higher levels of the sport, having competed at ProTour and Professional Continental level; only two of the twelve new signings were aged 23 or under.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, 2011 roster, Riders in
Following the discontinuation of Team Milram at the end of the 2010 season, Belgian rider Wim De Vocht dropped down from the ProTour to join the team. Two riders also joined Veranda's Willems–Accent from another ProTour team; Staf Scheirlinckx, a domestique and former top-ten finisher at Paris–Roubaix in 2006, and Jurgen Van Goolen both joined from Omega Pharma–Lotto; Van Goolen had previously signed for the Pegasus Sports project, prior to folding before the 2011 season even started.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, 2011 roster, Riders in
Steven Caethoven and Arnoud Van Groen left their respective Professional Continental teams Landbouwkrediet and Vacansoleil to join Veranda's Willems–Accent, Under-23 riders Jaco Venter and Thomas Vernaeckt both competed at Continental level in 2010 for MTN–Energade and Sunweb-Revor respectively, but joined Veranda's Willems–Accent in the hopes of progressing eventually to the World Tour. Also joining the team were Jempy Drucker, Rob Goris, David Kemp, Bram Schmitz and Evert Verbist.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, 2011 roster, Riders out
Andy Cappelle was the team's most notable departure for the 2011 season; after winning the Polynormande race and a stage at the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, Cappelle left the team to join World Tour squad Quick-Step on a twelve-month contract. Fabio Polazzi, Robin Stenuit and Jonas Vangenechten all joined Wallonie Bruxelles–Crédit Agricole for the 2011 season, with Cédric Collaers (Lotto-Bodysol), Sven Renders (Team Worldofbike.gr) and Hendrik Van Den Bossche (Donckers Koffie-Jelly Belly) all acquiring contracts for the 2011 season. Of the eight riders to leave the team prior to the 2011 season, only Julien Paquet failed to find a team.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, 2011 roster, Roster details
For each of the riders listed below, their ages are listed as of January 1, 2011.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Spring classics
The team had very little success in the single-day races in the early part of the year, and it was not until February before the team achieved a top ten placing in a race. At the Beverbeek Classic in Belgium, Verbist and Dries Hollanders – who would join Veranda's Willems Accent later in the year as a stagiaire – attacked off the front of the field and in the process, set up a two-man sprint for the victory in Hamont-Achel.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Spring classics
Verbist gapped Hollanders by a second to win the race for the second time, after previously winning the race in 2006 with the Chocolade Jacques–Topsport Vlaanderen team. In March, van Dijk took two second place finishes – both coming in mass sprints – at Omloop van het Waasland behind Landbouwkrediet's Aidis Kruopis, and the Nokere Koerse behind Gert Steegmans of Quick-Step.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Spring classics
Later in March, Van Groen finished ninth in the Classic Loire Atlantique, and Vanlandschoot took a sixth place finish the next day in the Cholet-Pays de Loire race. In April, during one of the team's wildcard entries to a World Tour race, Scheirlinckx finished in eighth place in the Tour of Flanders, having bridged up to the lead group prior to the final climb of the race, the cobbled Bosberg hill, 10 km (6.2 mi) from the finish in Meerbeke.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Spring classics
Van Dijk finished fourth in the Scheldeprijs three days later, having avoided a crash in the finishing straight which eliminated several riders from contention for the top placings. This result was again followed the next day by a top ten finish by Vanlandschoot, as in the Grand Prix Pino Cerami, Vanlandschoot finished in ninth place.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Spring classics
May and June brought the team two more top ten finishes each month; Verbist finished tenth in the Circuit de Wallonie, and eighth in the Gullegem Koerse national event in Belgium, while in June, van Dijk finished fifth in the Tour de Rijke, and Van Groen finished tenth in another national event, the Ruddervoorde Koerse.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Spring classics
The team also sent squads to the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Le Samyn, De Vlaamse Pijl, the Handzame Classic, Dwars door Vlaanderen, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Hel van het Mergelland, Brabantse Pijl, the Grand Prix de Denain, the Tour du Finistère, the Amstel Gold Race, the Tro-Bro Léon, La Flèche Wallonne, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop, Halle–Ingooigem, and the Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig, but placed outside of the top 10 in all of these races.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Fall races
The second half of the 2011 season for Veranda's Willems-Accent was more impressive than the first half of the year, taking top ten placings in 18 out of 22 single-day races held between July and October. It began with a victory, with Habeaux taking his first professional win in Dwars door het Hageland, held in Aarschot, Belgium. Verbist finished sixth in the Grand Prix José Dubois, before Habeaux took another top ten finish in Antwerpse Havenpijl in August. Later in August, van Dijk finished third in the Dutch Food Valley Classic, Verbist finished tenth in the Châteauroux Classic, Drucker finished sixth in the Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem, with Van Goolen adding a fourth top ten within the space of a week, with third in the Druivenkoers Overijse event.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Fall races
Van Dijk then reeled off a run of five consecutive races in which he finished as the team's best rider. The run began towards the end of August with a tenth place finish in the Schaal Sels-Merksem event, which was followed by a trio of fourth places in early-September at the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens, the Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen, and Paris–Brussels, before a third place the day after, in the Grand Prix de Fourmies. Later in the month, van Dijk finished eighth in the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen, and second behind Quick-Step's Guillaume Van Keirsbulck in Omloop van het Houtland. October brought the team three final top ten placings; Verbist finished eighth in the Tour de Vendée, Vernaeckt took his best result of the season with ninth place in Binche–Tournai–Binche, and van Dijk concluded his season with fifth place in the final Belgian race of the season, the Nationale Sluitingsprijs.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, One-day races, Fall races
The team also sent squads to the Polynormande, the Grand Prix de Wallonie, the Grand Prix d'Isbergues, Paris–Bourges, and Paris–Tours, but placed outside of the top 10 in all of these races.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Stage races
Compared to the team's single-day form, Veranda's Willems-Accent were not so prominent during the stage races. Schmitz took a minor classification win at the Étoile de Bessèges, winning the mountains classification comfortably, scoring more than double the points of his closest rival Yuri Trofimov of Team Katusha. The team's first stage win did not come until June, when Caethoven won the final stage of the Delta Tour Zeeland into Terneuzen.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Stage races
Later in the month, the team took two more stage wins at the Route du Sud, with van Dijk winning the opening stage into Samatan, and Van Goolen won the third stage into Bagnères-de-Luchon, having soloed to victory from an earlier twelve-man breakaway, eventually winning the stage by 96 seconds. Van Dijk also took out the points classification for the team, which was the team's final classification win of the year. Later in the season, Degand took third place in the two-day Paris–Corrèze race.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Stage races
The team also sent squads to the Tour du Haut Var, the Tour of South Africa, Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, the Three Days of De Panne, the Circuit de la Sarthe, the Presidential Tour of Turkey, the Four Days of Dunkirk, the Tour de Picardie, the Tour of Belgium, the Tour de Luxembourg, the Tour de Wallonie, the Eneco Tour, the Tour du Limousin, and the Tour de Wallonie-Picarde, but did not achieve a stage win, classification win, or podium finish in any of them.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Grand Tours
As the squad was a UCI Professional Continental team for the first time in 2011, they were in a position to compete in one of the three Grand Tours. As such, all eighteen UCI ProTeams were invited automatically to each of the races, meaning that Veranda's Willems–Accent had to receive an invitation from each respective race organiser, in order to compete. However, the squad was not selected to ride any of the three Grand Tours; for the Giro d'Italia, four of the five wildcards were largely Italian teams, with the Geox–TMC team being the only exception. Four wildcards were on offer for the Tour de France, and all were received by French-based teams – Cofidis, Team Europcar, FDJ and Saur–Sojasun – and at the Vuelta a España, home teams Andalucía–Caja Granada and Geox–TMC were invited along with Cofidis and Dutch team Skil–Shimano.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Season victories
At the end of the 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour season, Veranda's Willems–Accent was ranked in fourteenth place in the final Europe Tour standings, with a total of 879 points contributed by the team's best eight riders in the concurrent individual rankings. Van Dijk was the team's best placed rider on the individual rankings, finishing in sixth place with 494 of the team's points; missing out on a top-five ranking by 24 points.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Season victories
Outside of the team's continental home tour, the squad was also ranked in the 2010–2011 UCI Africa Tour standings; with 14 points contributed by Degand, Venter and Habeaux at the Tour of South Africa, the team ranked in sixteenth place out of 22 points-scoring teams.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Season victories
The team also scored 40 points on the 2010–2011 UCI Asia Tour, but this was due to the acquisition of results as Veranda's Willems–Accent did not compete in Asia as a team during the season; David Kemp joined Veranda's Willems–Accent for the 2011 season, having won the Tour of Taihu in October 2010 for Fly V Australia.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Season victories
Although the team was able to compete in UCI World Tour races during the season, no points were awarded to the team following a new rule introduced by the Union Cycliste Internationale, clarifying that only UCI ProTeams were eligible to score World Tour points.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Away from competition, Sponsorship
The team attracted a co-sponsor for the 2011 season, having been known as Verandas Willems during the 2010 season. When the list of 2011 UCI Professional Continental Teams was announced in December 2010, the team name was listed as Veranda's Willems–Accent. This was due to the involvement of Accent Jobs for people, a Belgian recruitment company, focusing on the job market in their native country as well as the pan-European market. They joined Veranda's Willems, a Belgian manufacturer of conservatories and windows, as main sponsors of the team. Other team partners included carbonated soft drinks company Coca-Cola, bicycle components company Miche, sports equipment manufacturer Oakley, electronic sports equipment manufacturer Sigma Sport, and many more.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Away from competition, Sponsorship
Following the 2011 season, it was announced that Accent Jobs for People would become "the full owner/sponsor of their Pro Continental cycling team", and in effect, change the order in which the names appeared in the team's documentation; becoming Accent.jobs–Willems Veranda's for 2012. The team had hoped to acquire another main sponsor in order to provide budget for any further signings that the team may have wished to have carried out, but this did not materialise; leaving the team shy of the 20 riders they wished to have.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Away from competition, Sponsorship
As well as a change in the background running of the team, with Wim Vanhaelemeesch replacing Bill Olivier as team manager, the team also introduced a new-look kit for the 2012 season. Replacing the white-and-black kit that the team had adopted since its formation, a predominately orange kit with areas of black around the shoulders was introduced ahead of their 2012 season-opening race.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Away from competition, Postseason
Six riders left the team at the conclusion of the 2011 season. Failing to take a top ten finish at any race in the season, Dieter Cappelle was not retained after two seasons with the team. Sven Van Den Houte, who had been with the team since 2009, left the squad to join the Colba-Superano Ham team, after failing to register a top-50 finish in any race he contested in 2011.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Away from competition, Postseason
The other four riders left the squad after only twelve months with the outfit; Jaco Venter left to join Differdange–Magic–SportFood.de, while Thomas Vernaeckt left to join the new Belgian-Algerian squad formed for the start of the 2012 season, Geofco Ville d'Alger. David Kemp failed to garner a contract for the 2012 season, while Bram Schmitz retired from competitive racing at the age of 34; he competed as a professional between 1999 and 2011, for the TVM–Farm Frites, Batavus-Bankgiroloterij, T-Mobile Team and Van Vliet–EBH Advocaten teams, as well as his season with Veranda's Willems–Accent.


2011 Veranda's Willems–Accent season, Away from competition, Postseason
Four riders joined the team ahead of the 2012 season. Following his season at Quick-Step, Andy Cappelle rejoined the team after a winless season at Quick-Step, although he did finish runner-up to Team Europcar's Anthony Charteau in January's La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. After two seasons with the Caja Rural team, Oleg Chuzhda joined the squad, while Kevyn Ista left Cofidis after two seasons, with a best result of second place at the 2011 Le Samyn. The final arrival at the team for 2012 was ex-Team Katusha rider and three-time Belgian national time trial champion Leif Hoste. Hoste was signed to boost the team's abilities in the Classic races, having been a three-time runner-up in the Tour of Flanders Monument race. This left the team's roster at 18 riders for the 2012 season.


2011 Veteraniya
2011 Veteraniya, provisional designation 1970 QB1, is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 August 1970, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula, and named for the Soviet veterans of the Second World War.


2011 Veteraniya, Classification and orbit
Veteraniya is a member of the Vesta family. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,347 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. The first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1950, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 20 years prior to its discovery.


2011 Veteraniya, Physical characteristics
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) and Pan-STARRS' large-scale survey classify it as a S-type and V-type asteroid, respectively.


2011 Veteraniya, Physical characteristics
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid's surface has an exceptionally high albedo of 0.46 and a corresponding diameter of 5.2 kilometers, while CALL assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20. CALL therefore calculates a larger diameter of 7.8 kilometers, as the lower the albedo (reflectivity), the higher the body's diameter at a constant absolute magnitude (brightness).


2011 Veteraniya, Physical characteristics
A photometric lightcurve analysis by Japanese astronomer Sunao Hasegawa in 2004 has given a rotation period of 8.209±0.005 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.30 in magnitude.


2011 Veteraniya, Naming
This minor planet was named in honor of the Soviet veterans of the Great Patriotic War. (The term is used in Russia to describe the conflict fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II during 1941–1945.) The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 (M.P.C. 4481).


2011 Victoria Cup
The 2011 Victoria Cup was scheduled to take place in June and July 2011; it will be the second Victoria Cup with the national teams from Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda competing in a round robin tournament, with both home and away fixtures. Kenya are the reigning champions after winning all 4 of their matches in 2010.


2011 Victoria Cup, Schedule
Click on the date in the first column to see more details on that match.


2011 Victoria Cup, Match 1
Tangai Nemadire put the Sables 5-0 up eight minutes into the game. Justin Kimono, top try scorer at the recently concluded Bamburi Rugby Super Series restored parity for the home side on thirty minutes. The diminutive Kimono, making his national team debut scored again two minutes later. Tichafara Makwanya's thirty fifth-minute penalty narrowed the deficit to 10-8 just before half-time. Prop forward Denford Mutamangira scored a try on forty eight minutes with Makwanya's conversion putting Zimbabwe 15-10 ahead. Gardner Nechironga scored a try and Makwanya's conversion put Zimbabwe 22-10 ahead on fifty minutes. Makwanya scored a drop goal with an hour gone before Robert Seguya scored a late pushover try for Uganda. Final score 25-15 to Zimbabwe.


2011 Victoria Cup, Match 1
Defending champions Kenya played a series of friendlies against the Mpumalanga Pumas from South Africa. Kenya coach Michael Otieno is expected to name his travelling party on Tuesday 21 June to play Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on 25 June.


2011 Victoria Curling Classic Invitational
The 2011 Victoria Curling Classic Invitational was held at the Archie Browning Sports Centre in Victoria, British Columbia from March 31 to April 3. There was a men's and women's draw. The men played a triple-knockout tournament to determine 8 quarterfinal spots, while the women played a round-robin tournament in two pools of four, and the top two teams of each pool advanced to the semifinals.


2011 Victoria floods
High intensity rainfall between 12–14 January 2011 caused major flooding across much of the western and central parts of the Australian state of Victoria. Several follow-up heavy rainfall events including Tropical Low Yasi caused repeated flash flooding in affected areas in early February in many of the communities affected by January's floods.


2011 Victoria floods
Many of the towns were previously affected by floods in September 2010, however the 2011 event was more severe, affecting at least four times as many properties with thousands of evacuations being called for by the State Emergency Service. As of 18 January, more than 51 communities had been affected by the floods. A total of over 1,730 properties had been flooded. Over 17,000 homes lost their electricity supply. The floods forced VicRoads to close hundreds of roads; and train services were also disrupted.


2011 Victoria floods
The floods devastated farms with 51,700 hectares of pasture and 41,200 hectares of field crops flooded and 6,106 sheep killed. The Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Victorian Farmers Union initially estimated that damages would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, but the Department of Primary Industries later calculated a damage bill of up to A$ 2 billion.


2011 Victoria floods
Kevin Parkyn, a senior forecaster with the Bureau of Meteorology said, "Victoria is experiencing one of its worst flood events in its history" after "a week in which rainfall totals have been smashed in parts of Victoria." Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Terry Ryan said, "It's the worst flood in western Victoria in their history as far as our records go in terms of the depth of water and the number of places affected." The Premier of Victoria, Ted Baillieu, has described it as "one of the biggest floods in the state's history."


2011 Victoria floods, Background
The strongest La Niña event since 1973 which fuelled the extensive flooding across Victoria in September 2010, brought wetter conditions across eastern Australia including the 2010–11 Queensland floods. An already soaked state had the wettest January in its recorded history in January 2011.


2011 Victoria floods, Background
A deepening low pressure trough over south-east Australia, fed with tropical moisture from the [[monsoon across the state as well as northern Tasmania, southern New South Wales and eastern parts of South Australia.


2011 Victoria floods, Background
During the downpour across the state flash flooding occurred in places such as Halls Gap and Beaufort, resulting in damage to businesses and homes. However, it was not until the downpour began to subside (and fair weather returned) that the accumulated water caused waterways across the region gradually to swell. As waterways began to break their banks, evacuations were called. Despite clearing conditions, flooding continued to spread during January and into February 2011 as it developed into what was increasingly described by the media as an "inland sea" across agricultural north-west Victoria.


2011 Victoria floods, Early warning and evacuation
Rising rivers led to evacuations in many other towns in central and western Victoria:


2011 Victoria floods, Infrastructure, Power outages
The flooding caused power outages across the state including areas supplied by the Charlton Zone Substation which was directly affected by rising waters.


2011 Victoria floods, Deaths
On 18 January, a police diver found the body of a boy who went missing in a flooded billabong, off the Goulburn River, on 17 January at Shepparton in north-east Victoria.


2011 Victoria floods, Deaths
On 5 February, the death of a man after falling off the roof of his Glen Waverley home trying to stem a leak was attributed to the flash flooding.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) assisted the Victorian State Emergency Service (VICSES) from 14 January 2011.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
The South Australian State Emergency Service sent a deployment team over to the emergency base in Horsham working up north along the Yarriambiack Creek. The 20-person team made up from units in Adelaide, Mt. Gambier, Murray Bridge, Renmark, Berri and Keith spent 5 days assisting the Victorian SES between 18 January 2011 and 22 January 2011.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
Premier Ted Ballieu toured flood affected areas on 17 January, announcing an A$7 million relief package, including a A$5 million clean-up fund and a A$1 million public appeal coordinated by the Red Cross. On 18 January, the Federal Government pledged A$4 million in relief funds.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
Three platoons from Victoria's 4th Reserve Response Force (4RRF), under the command of Headquarters 4th Brigade, conducted Rapid Impact Assessments (RIA) on townships identified by VICSES since 20 January, to provide information on the impact of the floods on community and private infrastructure.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
ADF personnel delivered relief items including almost 200,000 sandbags, various emergency stores, fuel, sand, water and bedding to a number of communities in the flood-affected region. In addition, a RAAF aircraft transported 76,000 ADF sandbags from Townsville and Brisbane to Melbourne on 22–23 January.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
By 24 January, RIAs had been completed for the towns of Charlton, Hamilton, Glenorchy, Halls Gap, Rochester, Bridgewater, Carisbrook, Dunolly, Clunes, Creswick, Appin South, Kerang West, Skipton, Newbridge and Horsham.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
On 24 January the ADF committed two Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Seahawk helicopters for providing support to Victorian flood relief and recovery efforts in addition to approximately 100 personnel and more than 40 land vehicles.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, toured flood affected areas from 28 January. Victorian Premier Ted Ballieu publicly criticised the Prime Minister for forgetting her home state while she pushed for a controversial flood levy to repair Queensland's flood damage.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
In March 2011, the Queen's eldest grandson, Prince William, toured the affected areas in Victoria, as well as those damaged by the floods in Queensland.


2011 Victoria floods, Response
In April 2011, Scouts Australia's Victorian Branch replaced its traditional Hoadley Hide hiking event with the Hoadley Project, where hundreds of Venturer and Rover Scouts assisted residents of Charlton, Rochester and Murrabit in the continuing cleanup effort.


2011 Victorian Premier League
The 2011 Victorian Premier League (known as the Alanic Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the ninety-ninth season of the Victorian Premier League since the first season in 1909. The home and away season began 15 February 2011 and concluded 7 August 2011. Green Gully were the defending champions.


2011 Victorian Premier League
The concept of a youth development squad was reintroduced in 2010 with the National Training Centre team playing in midweek fixtures throughout the season but not for competition points. In 2011 the team, mostly comprising players from the Melbourne Victory youth squad, was renamed Victorian Training Centre Football and was eligible to score competition points for its matches but ineligible to qualify for the finals series or be relegated.


2011 Victorian Premier League
Green Gully won the double, winning both the premiership and the  Grand Final, defeating Oakleigh Cannons. Green Gully surpassed South Melbourne FC and Brunswick Juventus as the club with the most Victorian championships with nine in total.


2011 Victorian Premier League, Promotion and relegation
Teams promoted from Victorian State League Division 1:(After the end of the 2010 season.)


2011 Victorian Premier League, Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated to Victorian State League Division 1:(After the end of the 2010 season.)


2011 Victorian Premier League, Regular season
The Victorian Premier League 2011 season was played over 22 rounds, concluding on 7 August 2011, followed by the final series.


2011 Victorino Cunha Cup
The Victorino Cunha Cup is an annual Angolan basketball tournament held in honour of former Angolan basketball coach Victorino Cunha. The 3rd edition (2011), ran from October 13 to 15, and was contested by four teams in a round robin system. Primeiro de Agosto was the winner.


2011 Victory Bowl
The 2011 Victory Bowl, the 15th edition of the annual game, was a college football bowl game played on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at Finley Stadium in Campbellsville, Kentucky. It featured the Campbellsville Tigers against the Greenville Panthers. The Tigers won 21–7.


2011 Victory Bowl, Game play, First quarter
Campbellsville scored first when Diaz Bolden caught a 58 yard pass from Bobby Leonard with 14:06 remaining in the quarter. David Hon converted the extra point with a kick to put the score to 7–0. Later in the quarter, Greenville answered with a touchdown and extra point to tie it up 7–7, but it would be Greenville's only score for the game.


2011 Victory Bowl, Game play, Second quarter
In the second quarter, Rodrick Dickerson recovered a fumble and returned it 82 yards to take the lead with 2:34 to play before halftime. Campbellsville held the lead for the remainder of the game.


2011 Victory Bowl, Game play, Third quarter
Campbellsville managed a field goal and safety in the third quarter, advancing the score to 19–7.


2011 Victory Bowl, Game play, Fourth quarter
Campbellsville took Greenville for a second safety in the fourth quarter. The score remained at 21–7 through the end of the game.


2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix
The 2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix (officially known as the Yonex-Sunrise Vietnam Grand Prix Open 2011 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Phan Dinh Phung Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 22 to 28 August and had a total purse of $50,000.


2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix, Tournament
The 2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix was the ninth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the 2011 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix and also part of the Vietnam Open championships which have been held since 1996. This tournament was organized by the Vietnam Badminton Federation, with the local organizer committee Ho Chi Minh City Badminton Association, and sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation.


2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix, Tournament
This tournament attracted more than 300 players from 23 countries and territories to compete in 5 events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.


2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix, Tournament, Venue
This international tournament was held at the Phan Dinh Phung Stadium in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.


2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix, Tournament, Point distribution
Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Grand Prix event.


2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix, Tournament, Prize money
The total prize money was US$50,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations.


2011 Vietnamese Cup
The 2011 Vietnamese Cup was the 19th edition of the Vietnamese Cup. It started on 8 January 2011 and finished on 27 August 2011.


2011 Vietnamese Cup
The cup winner were guaranteed a place in the 2012 AFC Cup.


2011 Vietnamese Cup, First round
Byes: Bình Dương, Đà Nẵng, Hà Nội T&T, Hoàng Anh Gia Lai, Nam Định, Sông Lam Nghệ An


2011 Vietnamese National Football First League
The 2011 Vietnamese National Football First League season was the 17th season of Vietnam's professional football league and began on January 2011 and finish on August 2011.


2011 Vietnamese Super Cup
The 2011 PV Gas Vietnamese Super Cup Final was the 13th edition of the Vietnamese Super Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's V-League and Vietnamese Cup competitions.


2011 Vietnamese legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Vietnam on 22 May 2011. Since Vietnam is a single-party state, the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam was guaranteed to win a majority.


2011 Vietnamese legislative election, Campaign
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, there were 827 candidates. 31.4% were women, 14.3% were not members of the Communist Party, 16.1% were members of ethnic minorities and 22.1% were candidates running for reelection. Regardless of party standing, all candidates are evaluated by the Fatherland Front.


2011 Vietnamese legislative election, Campaign
Originally, 82 people were self-nominated, but of those only 15 were approved by party officials in order to run in the election. However, Vietnam saw an increase of self-nominated candidates (82) in 2011 compared to 30 in 2007. Some pro-democracy and human rights activists were a part of the self-nominated group, who did not receive the required approval. These included lawyers Le Quoc Quan, a former fellow for the National Endowment for Democracy and Cu Huy Ha Vu and Le Cong Dinh, both sentenced to jail for security and propaganda risks against the state.


2011 Vietnamese legislative election, Campaign
The 14 politburo seats were also up for election, though these elections were held in small electoral districts chosen by the party leaders. Thus, not all Vietnamese voters had a say in the politburo election decision.


2011 Vietnamese legislative election, Results
During the 2011 election, Vietnam had an estimated 62,200,000 registered voters and of those registered 61,900,000 ballots were reportedly cast. Voter turnout was exceedingly high at 99.51%. Of the 500 members elected, 333 were first-time members and four were self-nominated. Almost all of them had at least a bachelor's degree; 15.6% were from ethnic minorities, 24.4% were women, and 8.4% were not members of the Communist Party. Non -party members, who managed to gain a seat in the National Assembly, include brother and sister duo Dang Thanh Tam and Dang Thi Hoang Yen from Saigon Investment Group.


2011 Vietnamese legislative election, Aftermath
Following the elections, on 25 July the new National Assembly elected Trương Tấn Sang as the new president, with 483 of the 496 National Assembly members voting for him.


2011 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 2011 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Wildcats were led by 27th year head coach Andy Talley and played their home games at Villanova Stadium. They are a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 2–9, 1–7 in CAA play to finish in ninth place.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team
2011 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team represented the University of Virginia in the 2011 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cavaliers played their home games at Davenport Field. The team was coached by Brian O'Connor, leading his eighth season at Virginia.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team
The Cavaliers won the Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division and the 2011 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, then advanced to the 2011 College World Series as the top overall seed. They fell to eventual champion South Carolina in the semifinal.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team, Ranking movements
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 2011 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cavaliers were led by second-year head coach Mike London and played their home games at Scott Stadium. They were members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Virginia had an 8–5 overall record on the season with a 5–3 mark in the ACC play to finish in a tie for second place in the Coastal Division. The Cavaliers appeared in the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll for the first time since 2007.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers football team
Memorable moments from the season include: upsetting #12-ranked and undefeated Georgia Tech and defeating Florida State in Tallahassee for the first time in school history. They also became the first team in NCAA history to win road games against the  Miami Hurricanes and the Florida State Seminoles in the same season. They were invited to the Chick-fil-A Bowl, where they were defeated by Auburn, 43–24.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Previous season
The Cavaliers went 4–8 in 2010, their third losing season in a row, and first under new head coach Mike London. Despite having an off-season recruiting class among the best in the country, a major upset versus the then #22 Miami Hurricanes, and a near-upset in the week two game versus the University of Southern California Trojans, the Cavaliers were plagued by penalties (ranked 117th out of 120 in the country) and turnovers, and finished 5th in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal division. In the ACC Preseason Poll, they were picked to finish at next to last place in the ACC Coastal division, and 11th of 12 overall. ESPN predicted that UVA would be one of the only two ACC teams (alongside Wake Forest) to not achieve bowl eligibility.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team
The 2011 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team represented the University of Virginia during the 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team
Ahead of the season, the team was trying to advance further into the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, after being eliminated in the first round the previous year. Although the Cavaliers suffered some initial struggles early in the campaign, the team pulled together a chain of conference wins, and reached the semifinals of the 2011 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, before falling to North Carolina in the semifinals. Still, the Cavaliers earned an at-large berth into the 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, where they hosted CAA Champions, Delaware. The Blue Hens defeated the Cavaliers, 1–0 in extra time, making it the first time since 1987 that the Cavaliers were consecutively eliminated in first round of the NCAA Tournament.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Background
The Cavaliers entered the 2010 season as the defending NCAA National Champions, winning their first national title since the Bruce Arena years of the early to mid-1990s. During the 2010 campaign, the Cavaliers earned an at-large berth into the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, where they were eliminated by in-state rival, Old Dominion, whom play in the Colonial Athletic Association. It was the first time since 1996 that the Cavaliers were eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Competitions
Home team is listed on the right, and the away team is listed on the left.


2011 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team, Competitions, Regular season, ACC Standings
Source: (RC) = Regular season champion; (TC) = Tournament championOnly applicable when the season is not finished:(Q) = Qualified for conference tournament, but not to particular round indicated; (E) = Eliminated from conference tournament


2011 Virginia Destroyers season
The 2011 Virginia Destroyers season was the third season for the United Football League franchise and its first since relocating from Orlando, where they played as the Florida Tuskers. Guided by head coach and general manager Marty Schottenheimer, the Destroyers finished the truncated regular season with a 3–1 record and defeated Las Vegas 17–3 in the October 21 Championship Game for the franchise's first UFL title.


2011 Virginia Destroyers season, Personnel, Roster
Rookies in italicsRoster updated October 20, 201153 Active, 5 Inactive


2011 Virginia Destroyers season, Standings
z-Virginia and Las Vegas were awarded berths in the 2011 UFL Championship Game when the balance of the regular season was cancelled on October 17x-Omaha and Sacramento would play in a post-season consolation game


2011 Virginia House of Delegates election
The Virginia House of Delegates election of 2011 was held on Tuesday, November 8.


2011 Virginia House of Delegates election, Results, By House of Delegates district
Party abbreviations: D - Democratic Party, R - Republican Party, L - Libertarian Party, IG - Independent Green Party, I - Independent.


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship
The 2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which is part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Charlottesville, United States between 31 October and 6 November 2011.


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a lucky loser into the singles main draw:


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, Champions, Singles
Izak van der Merwe def. Jesse Levine, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship, Champions, Doubles
Treat Conrad Huey /  Dominic Inglot def. John Paul Fruttero /  Raven Klaasen, 4–6, 6–3, [10–7]


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship – Doubles
Robert Kendrick and Donald Young were the defending champions but decided not to participate. Treat Conrad Huey and Dominic Inglot won the final 4–6, 6–3, [10–7] against John Paul Fruttero and Raven Klaasen.


2011 Virginia National Bank Men's Pro Championship – Singles
Robert Kendrick was the defending champion but decided not to participate. Izak van der Merwe won the title, defeating Jesse Levine 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2011 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
The 2011 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hokies were led by 25th-year head coach Frank Beamer and played their home games at Lane Stadium. They were members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season with 11–3 overall record, 7–1 in ACC play, as champions of the Coastal Division. They were defeated by Clemson in the 2011 ACC Championship Game, 10–38. They were invited to the Sugar Bowl, where they lost to Michigan, 20–23 in overtime.


2011 Virginia earthquake
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT. The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral. It was an intraplate earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Several aftershocks, ranging up to 4.5 Mw in magnitude, occurred after the main tremor.


2011 Virginia earthquake
The quake was felt across more than a dozen U.S. states and in several Canadian provinces, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history. No deaths and only minor injuries were reported. Minor and moderate damage to buildings was widespread and was estimated by one risk-modeling company at $200 million to $300 million, of which about $100 million was insured.


2011 Virginia earthquake
The earthquake prompted research that revealed that the farthest landslide from the epicenter was 150 miles (240 km), by far the greatest landslide distance recorded from any other earthquake of similar magnitude. Previous studies of worldwide earthquakes indicated that landslides occurred no farther than 36 miles (58 km) from the epicenter of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. The Virginia earthquake study suggested that the added information about East Coast earthquakes may prompt a revision of equations that predict ground shaking.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Geology
The earthquake occurred in the Virginia Seismic Zone, located in the Piedmont region. The Virginia Piedmont area was formed originally as part of a zone of repeated continental collisions that created the ancestral Appalachian Mountains, a process that started during the Ordovician period with the Taconic orogeny and finished during the Carboniferous Period with the Alleghanian orogeny. The reverse faults formed during the various orogenies were partly reactivated as normal faults in extension during the Mesozoic Era as the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. During the Cenozoic Era, compression from the opening and spreading of the Atlantic has caused some of these structures to be reactivated in a reverse sense.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Geology
The earthquake's epicenter and most of the aftershocks lie between the surface traces of two structures, the Spotsylvania Fault, a southeast dipping zone of high ductile strain, and the Chopawamsic Fault, a thrust fault. The earthquake's focal mechanism shows reverse slip faulting on a north to northeast striking fault plane. The spatial distribution of aftershocks show that the causative fault dips to the southeast at 50–55°. There was no surface faulting associated with the earthquake. The size of the rupture is as yet uncalculated, but similar quakes have been caused by slippage along fault segments that are 5 to 15 km (3 to 9 mi) long.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Geology
After the earthquake, several websites speculated about whether hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for natural gas production could have caused or contributed to the quake. There were not any fracking operations in Virginia at the time of the quake. The nearest fracking was occurring in the Marcellus shale in West Virginia.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Aftershocks
Numerous aftershocks occurred after the main tremor. The first four (of magnitude 2.8, 2.2, 4.2 and 3.4) occurred within 12 hours of the main shock. A 2.5-magnitude shock occurred just after midnight on August 25, followed at 05:07 UTC by the strongest, a magnitude 4.5 aftershock that woke many residents in Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., and was felt as far away as New England, Georgia, and Illinois.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Research
Scientists have known that the difference between seismic shaking in eastern North America versus western North America is due in part to the geologic structure and rock properties that allow seismic waves in the East to travel farther without weakening, but during November 2012, the USGS announced that recent research showed that earthquake shaking in the eastern United States can travel much farther and cause damage over larger areas than previously thought. USGS  scientists found that the Virginia earthquake caused landslides at distances four times farther—and over an area 20 times larger—than previous research had shown.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Research
USGS Director Marcia McNutt said, "Scientists are confirming with empirical data what more than 50 million people in the eastern U.S. experienced firsthand: this was one powerful earthquake. Calibrating the distance over which landslides occur may also help us reach back into the geologic record to look for evidence of past major earthquakes from the Virginia seismic zone."


2011 Virginia earthquake, Research
The USGS found that the farthest landslide from the 2011 Virginia earthquake was 150 miles (240 km) from the epicenter. This is by far the greatest landslide distance recorded from any other earthquake of similar magnitude. Previous studies of worldwide earthquakes indicated that landslides occurred no farther than 36 miles (58 km) from the epicenter of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. The study suggested that the added information about East Coast earthquakes may prompt a revision of equations that predict ground shaking.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Research
"What makes this new study so unique is that it provides direct observational evidence from the largest earthquake to occur in more than 100 years in the eastern U.S. Now that we know more about the power of East Coast earthquakes, equations that predict ground shaking might need to be revised."


2011 Virginia earthquake, Research
The earthquake, along with a magnitude-5.8 quake on the border of New York and Ontario in 1944, is the largest to have occurred in the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains since an 1897 quake centered in Giles County in western Virginia whose magnitude has been estimated as 5.8 or 5.9.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Research
In addition to the great landslide distances recorded, the landslides from the 2011 Virginia earthquake occurred in an area 20 times larger than expected from studies of worldwide earthquakes. Scientists plotted the landslide locations that were farthest out and then calculated the area enclosed by those landslides. The observed landslides from the Virginia earthquake enclose an area of about 33,400 km2 (12,900 sq mi), while previous studies indicated an expected area of about 1,500 km2 (580 sq mi) from an earthquake of similar magnitude.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect
It is estimated that approximately one-third of the U.S. population might have felt the earthquake, more than any other earthquake in U.S. history. People in certain areas of Pennsylvania, however, did not feel the earthquake at all despite being relatively close to the epicenter. About 148,000 people reported their ground-shaking experiences caused by the earthquake on the USGS "Did You Feel It?" website. Tremors from the Virginia earthquake were felt as far south as Atlanta, Georgia; as far north as Quebec City, Quebec; as far west as Illinois and as far east as Fredericton, New Brunswick, with damage reported as far away as Brooklyn, New York.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect
Although earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. are substantially less frequent than in the western U.S., they are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rocky Mountains, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. Western rock is relatively young, therefore it absorbs much of the shaking caused by earthquakes. Hence, western earthquakes result in intense shaking close to the epicenter, but fade more quickly the farther the earthquakes travel.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect
In the eastern United States, the rock is much older, and earthquake energy can therefore spread farther and have a greater impact. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake can usually be felt as far as 300 mi (483 km) from its origin, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 25 mi (40 km). The relatively shallow depth of this earthquake also contributed to its widespread effects.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States
Soon after the earthquake, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop along the East Coast, causing some flight delays. The air traffic control tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated. Flights were delayed at several airports, including John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Dulles International Airport,  Richmond International Airport, and Philadelphia International Airport. At Ronald Reagan National Airport, ceiling tiles fell in one terminal, and flights were halted.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States
A huge increase of cell-phone calls immediately after the event congested the AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Frontier Communications networks in the Mid-Atlantic region, causing disruptions and loss of service for as much as an hour after the earthquake.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States, Virginia
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Louisa County, Virginia, where damage was greatest and several minor injuries occurred. The town of Mineral, located 5 mi (8 km) north-northeast from the earthquake's epicenter, reported the collapse of two buildings, as well as minor damage to several other structures, including the collapse of the ceiling in its Town Hall. Only minor injuries were reported, including the hospitalization of several people reporting chest pains related to the stress of the experience. Fallen chimneys and other structural damage to buildings was also reported in Louisa, the county seat.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States, Virginia
The Gilboa Christian Church, in Cuckoo, was heavily damaged and rendered unusable. At Louisa County High School, cinderblocks fell in classrooms, and cracks were seen in walls. Six students had minor injuries. Louisa County schools were closed on August 24 while engineers assessed damage to school buildings. The high school and Thomas Jefferson Elementary were closed for the remainder of the school year. Inspections revealed that 65 homes sustained major or severe damage and 125 homes experienced mild to moderate damage. Damage in Louisa County was estimated at $80.6 million, of which $63.8 million was from damage to public school buildings and $14.7 million was from damage to residences. On August 25, county officials declared a state of local emergency in order to allow them to request state aid.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States, Virginia
Multiple reactor sensors at the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station, located 10 mi (16 km) northeast of the epicenter, detected a slight power reduction as a result of vibrations in the reactor or monitoring devices. This caused the two nuclear reactors to shut down automatically seconds before off-site power was lost.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States, Virginia
Amid public fears that the earthquake could cause a nuclear accident, prompted in part by the Fukushima disaster which had occurred six months prior, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent additional inspectors to the Virginia plant after preliminary measurements suggested that the ground shook more than the two reactors were designed to handle. The damage was minimal and the NRC advised that further inspections should not be interpreted to mean that the plant was not safe. After a $21 million inspection, engineers stated that they only found cosmetic damage. On November 11, 2011, the NRC gave its approval for restarting the reactors.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States, Virginia
In Charlottesville, about 27 mi (43 km) west of the epicenter, a gas leak closed several streets, including West Main Street.


2011 Virginia earthquake, Effect, United States, Virginia
In Spotsylvania County, the August 24 opening of public schools was delayed while damage to buildings was assessed. Six patients were treated at the Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center for minor injuries resulting from the earthquake.