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

⛳️ Academic honor
🏈 Press conference
🦃 And much, much more!

🦃 STOCK UP

🔼 Smart Men. The men’s golf team earned the 2024-25 PLATFORM Golf Team Academic Award. The Hokies are one of 129 programs that received the President’s Special Recognition for maintaining a team GPA of 3.5 or higher.

⛳️ Read more about the honor.

🔼 Listen Up! Football staff took to the podium for the annual media day press conference during Fall Camp. Head coach Brent Pry highlighted how he is pleased with the attitude and effort of the entire program. Philip Montgomery, Sam Siefkes and Stu Holt also shared their thoughts on practices so far.

🏈 Hear what each coach had to say.

🤔 HOKIE TRIVIA

First Day of Training.

Which team had its first day of training yesterday?

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

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🟠 ONE BIG THING

New Hokie. The men’s soccer team welcomes Beltran Alvarez to the 2025 roster. Alvarez is a midfielder from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He previously played at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he started in 15 games last season. He recorded the second-highest playing minutes on the team.

⚽️ Learn more about Alvarez.

📆 THE DAYS AHEAD

Friday, August 8

⚽️ Men’s Soccer vs. Liberty @ 7pm ET

Saturday, August 9

⚽️ Women’s Soccer vs. Vanderbilt @ 1pm ET

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Men’s soccer!

🦃 Have a great Thursday!