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Cole Beck ACC 100 Meter Champion

Cole Beck, a VT junior, won the 100 meters race at the 2021 Spring Outdoor Track & Field Championships at NC State. His winning time was 10.11 seconds, tied for 14th in the NCAA's this year, going into the NCAA Nationals. He's concentrating solely on track now, after a couple of years also playing on the football team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxpcoZFj2g

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Bob Schick named to NJCAA All-American Team

On Monday, the 6-foot 6-inch, 300-pounder was named an NJCAA Football First-Team All-American.

After moving its season from the fall to the spring, Snow College posted a perfect 8-0 record during the regular season, rising to No. 2 in the NJCAA rankings. The Badgers earned an opportunity to play in the NJCAA Division-I National Championship Game earlier this month, falling to top-ranked Hutchinson 29-27.

Schick, who played both right tackle and left tackle during his freshman season at Snow, transfers to Virginia Tech with full eligibility.

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OT: (New Spirit Org at Tech) Hellraisin Hokies: Old Hokie Stories, Traditions, Histories, Chants, and More!

Hey everyone!

We've been posting the past few weeks, but we wanted to make a thread given the summer break to ramp up for the year.

As an intro, we're the Hellraisin Hokies! A new spirit org at Virginia Tech. The founder of the org is a grad student that came from the University of Houston, after starting an org there to bring spirit back to it's Sports programs.

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Tech LB Isi Etute charged with Blacksburg murder.

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2021/06/02/blacksburg-welfare-check-resu...

On Tuesday at 10:30 p.m., while officers were performing a welfare check in downtown Blacksburg at 119 N. Main Street they found a man who had died, according to the Blacksburg Police Department.
Investigators ruled the manner of death a homicide, identified 18-year-old Isimemen Etute as a person of interest and later charged him with second-degree murder

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OT: Winningest Teams by State: 2011-2020

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Virginia Tech is best in Virginia
Appalachian State is tops in North Carolina
Memphis leads in Tennessee
Stanford is #1 in California

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Four Football kickoff times announced

Kickoff times for the first three games plus the BC Friday night game have been announced:

September 3rd - UNC - 6:00pm
September 11th - Middle Tennessee St - 2:00pm
September 18th - WVU - Noon
November 5th - BC - 7:30pm

https://hokiesports.com/news/2021/5/27/football-virginia-tech-football-o...

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Examining the net effect of the transfer portal on Virginia Tech football

According to Max Olson and Bruce Feldman at The Athletic, more than 2,100 players have entered the portal since August 2020, and about two-thirds of those are scholarship players. [1] Think about that for a second – there are over 2,100 players in the portal in less than a calendar year – and that doesn't include the guys who had previously entered and never found a home. The transfer portal is college football's beautiful mess. Often derided and not entirely understood, what should we make of Virginia Tech's portal use in general?

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