Good morning! The Hokies have four home games this weekend. Catch the women’s soccer team’s first game in the NCAA Tournament tonight against Tennessee at 7 p.m. Get your tickets here!

What else are we kicking into today’s edition, Hokies?

⚽️ All-Freshman conference honors
🏀 MBB 3-0 start
🦃 And much, much more!

🦃 STOCK UP

🔼 Conference Honors. The ACC named Olafur Floki Stephensen to the All-Freshman Team. He becomes the fourth player since 2021 to receive the honor. He started in all 16 games and helped to record seven clean sheets throughout the regular season.

⚽️ Here’s more about Stephensen.

🔼 Amazing Start. The men’s basketball team stands 3-0 just one week into the 2024-25 season. The man of the show is Tobi Lawal. The junior transfer from VCU scored a career-high 23 points the season opener. He continued to produced double-digits in the next two games. Lawal averages 8.7 rebounds per game and recorded his first double-double of the season against Winthrop.

🏀 Read about Lawal, Jaden Schutt and Mylyjael Poteat.

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🤔 HOKIE TRIVIA

Top Ranked. The women’s golf team signed a top-ranked junior golfer.

____ is set to begin play at Virginia Tech in 2025.

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🟠 ONE BIG THING

Semifinalist. Defensive lineman Antwaun Powell-Ryland was named one of 20 semifinalists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award. He is also a semifinalist for the Lombardi Award and the Bednarik Award.

🏈 Read all about Powell-Ryland.

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📅 THE DAYS AHEAD

Friday, November 15

👟 Cross Country NCAA Southeast Regional
⚽️ Women’s Soccer NCAA Championship vs. Tennessee @ 7pm ET | Tickets
🤼 #8 Wrestling vs. #9 Missouri @ 7pm ET
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Penn State @ 7:30pm ET
🏐 Volleyball at Stanford @ 10pm ET

Saturday, November 16

🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Coppin State @ 2pm ET | Tickets

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🦃 Game promotions schedule.

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Yao Wang!

🦃 Have a great Friday!