Good morning. The football defense is preparing to go big this fall! Get tickets to see their performance this season. Seats in the Upper South End Zone and 540 Zone season tickets are officially sold out. You can now purchase single-game tickets with location for the 2025 season here!

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

🏈 Lunch Pail Defense
⛳️ 5 Academic honors
🦃 And much, much more!

🦃 STOCK UP

🔼 New Era. Defensive coordinator Sam Siefkes plans to utilize the Lunch Pail Defense this fall. Siefkes emphasized that having an identical mentality across the team is imperative to the overall success of the group. Seeing where the limits are is especially important as the season progresses.

🏈 Read more about the plan.

🔼 Again! The lacrosse team matched its program record with 17 players earning All-ACC Academic Team honors. This is the second straight year the program has had 17 honorees. Click here to see the athletes who earned the award.

🤔 HOKIE TRIVIA

Approved.

Former defensive coordinator, _______, the legendary architect of the Lunch Pail Defense, has already given Siefkes his seal of approval, following several meetings with him this past spring. 

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom and find out!

🟠 ONE BIG THING

Academic Success. The men’s golf team had five athletes earn All-ACC Academic honors. Balthazar Duclos, Ashton Harper, Rahul Rajendran, David Stanford and Gareth Steyn were awarded. The student-athletes maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher while competing in at least half of their team’s competitive rounds during the 2024-25 season.

⛳️ Learn more about the honorees.

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

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🦃 Have a great Wednesday!