from www.hokiesports.com Elizabeth Kitley named ACC Player of the Week for the third time this season Junior center drops 34 points Sunday in initial ACC contest of the season Junior center Elizabeth Kitley(Northwest Guilford High School) earned ACC Player of the Week honors, the conference announced on Monday afternoon. Kitley scored 34 points Sunday at Florida State as the Hokies defeated the Seminoles 92-75 to get out to a 1-0 start in ACC play for the second consecutive season. The Summerfield, North Carolina native was an efficient 13-of-19 from the field and also connected on a career-best eight FTs in…
Virginia Tech’s WR Tre Turner(Northwest Guilford High School) will skip bowl game and enter his name into the 2022 NFL Draft CLICK BELOW for the full word, from Tre Turner, the former Northwest Guilford Viking…… pic.twitter.com/uSa2Qtthlu — Tré Turner (@tre11turner) December 1, 2021
**********ACC Football Players of the Week********** from the ACC.com/www.theacc.com: RECEIVER – Tré Turner, Virginia Tech, Jr., WR, Greensboro, N.C.(Northwest Guilford High School) Hauled in seven catches for a career-high 187 yards and a touchdown in the Hokies’ 26-17 victory at Georgia Tech on Saturday • The seven receptions tied his career best • Has scored two TDs this season and 13 in his career • His 69-yard TD reception versus the Yellow Jackets was his career-long, and marked Virginia Tech’s longest play from scrimmage this season • Added a 61-yard reception later in the game • It stands as the…
Alumni for Education: Tre Turner He’s the ultimate college athlete, and he knows a college education is key to seeing your dreams come true. Before becoming Virginia Tech’s number one wide receiver, William Lee Turner III “Tre” grew up in Greensboro and attended high school at Northwest Guilford, where he found a love for athletics. At just 4-years-old, this born athlete would begin his career following in his brother’s illustrious footsteps. The younger brother of former Tarheel and NBA basketball star PJ Hairston, Tré quickly found his own love for the game. “Growing up I was always in the gym…
**********It was a career-high 29 points for Cayla King, from Northwest Guilford High School, as the Virginia Tech Hokies women’s basketball team knocked off the Pittsburgh Panthers, in ACC Women’s action, 88-71, on Thursday evening, in Blacksburg, Virginia…Liz Kitley, also from Northwest Guilford High School, added 15 points for the Hokies, in their conference victory over the Pitt Panthers….********** (King was red-hot from three-point land, as she nailed 7 three-pointers on the night.) CLICK HERE for Cayla King basketball photo….. from www.hokiesports.com: BLACKSBURG – The Virginia Tech women’s basketball team was down early and trailed by as many as 11,…
Here’s what Alan Hooker, Hendon Hooker’s dad, is saying about his son and that COLD Saturday night in Blacksburg, Virginia: ‘We feel confident he’s fully recovered’: Encouraging update from Hendon Hooker’s dad on QB’s health scare from the Roanoke Times and Mike Niziolek/ CLICK HERE to see all of this article/post…. BLACKSBURG — Alan Hooker flashed back to the state semifinals of his senior year at Eastern Randolph High School when he saw his son Hendon shaking on the sideline Saturday during Virginia Tech’s 45-10 loss to Clemson. The elder Hooker faced a similar issue more than two decades ago…
**********David Cunningham/@therealdcunna Justin Fuente says Hendon Hooker will start at quarterback for the #Hokies against Boston College on Saturday. As always, they’ll continue to evaluate the position.********** from David Teel, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch @ByDavidTeel: The Virginia Tech Hokies’ offense Saturday, by quarterback: Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS): 41 plays, 309 yards, 7.54 yards per snap, 31 points Braxton Burmeister: 36 plays, 186 yards, 5.17 yards per snap, 14 points.
from Riley Gates at Virginia Tech Sports, on 24/7 Sports/CLICK HERE Fuente hopes Hokies are ‘able to play’ NC State this weekend This coming weekend looks like it could be the most exciting weekend of college football yet in this young 2020 season. Big 12 teams begin conference play and the SEC makes its coveted return to the field. And of course, ACC football pushes on with some intriguing matchups. One of those intriguing matchups is Virginia Tech’s season opener, a home game against North Carolina State. The game is scheduled for an 8 p.m. ET kick between the Hokies…
Hendon Hooker, from James B. Dudley High School here in Greensboro, will open the 2020 season as the Virginia Tech Hokies starting quarterback… The first game for VA Tech will be at home on Saturday September 19 at 3:30pm, in Lane Stadium, in Blacksburg, Virginia, as the Hokies, and their starting QB Hendon “Hen Boss” Hooker, play host to their arch-rival, the Virginia Cavaliers….This game is usually the last game on the schedule for the Hokies and the Cavs, and they are usually locking horns on Thanksgiving Weekend, but this year, the “Year of COVID-19”, the BIG game is being…
Xavier Simmons, from Northwest Guilford High School, is currently a sophomore for the Vikings, and that would put him in the NWG Class of 2022, and this rising NWG junior, has been receiving quite a bit of college interest in the past week… Simmons is listed at 6’3/210 and plays Middle Linebacker….The kid is big, the kid is quick and the kid can move… It was a busy day for the Xman/Xavier Simmons, as he collected three(3) major DI offers in one day….Offers for Xavier coming in today/Wednesday from North Carolina, East Carolina and Virginia Tech…Hearing from the Tar Heels,…
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – For the third consecutive season, the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Year hails from Louisville, as junior guard Dana Evans secured this season’s honor from the league’s Blue Ribbon Panel and the ACC’s 15 head coaches. Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley(Northwest Guilford High School) was tabbed the ACC Rookie of the Year, while Boston College’s Joanna Bernabei-McNamee was voted ACC Coach of the Year. Starting with her collegiate debut in which she scored 27 points, the second-best debut in Virginia Tech history for any player, Kitley has continued to play at a high level…
from the Associated Press and Mike Niziolek with the Roanoke Times: Greensboro, N.C., native Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS), making his first career start at quarterback for the Hokies, was 10-for-20 passing for 184 yards and three touchdowns. Hooker, the News & Record’s HSXtra.com player of the year in 2016 for his play at Dudley, also rushed for a touchdown. It was Hooker who came through with the game-winning drive. The redshirt-sophomore out of Greensboro who nearly transferred out of the program during the offseason led a last minute 63-yard scoring drive with long completions to Damon Hazelton and Dalton Keene. Running…
from Mike Barber, at the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Virginia Tech football team announced today the dismissal of former Northern Guilford defensive back Mook Reynolds. Reynolds, the Hokies’ starting nickel back was “dismissed from the team effective immediately in accordance with Virginia Tech Athletics Department policies,” the school announced in a statement. The statement also said that Reynolds had been suspended from team activities during the spring, discipline the school did not publicly reveal at the time. Read more from Mike Barber, at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, when you CLICK HERE….
from www.usatoday.com: Virginia Tech quarterback Josh Jackson was expected to be one of the top quarterbacks in the ACC this season. Now his status with the program is in doubt. Jackson’s dad, Fred, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch his son is still a member of the team, but his future was up in the air. “As of right now, Josh is still a member of the Virginia Tech football team,” Fred Jackson said. “We’ll know more in two days. It’s too early to talk about this.” He did not specify the reason for the unsettled situation. A report from the Roanoke…
Tre Turner selected Virginia Tech over North Carolina and Florida State, as he made his choice for college football tonight, at the JP Looney’s in Oak Ridge…. Turner will join locals Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS) and Mook Reynolds(Northern Guilford HS) at Virginia Tech… Tre Turner announces his decision in this video clip and Click On below to check it out…. Northwest Guilford head football coach Jared Rolfes with some questions for Tre Turner about how Virginia Tech won Tre over to the Hokies and what Tre’s other plans are for the future… Click On Below for the video…. Part of the…
DJ Crossen(Dudley High School) was at the Virginia Tech Hokies Camp today/Sunday and received an offer from the Hokies, at the end of camp. DJ Crossen, the Dudley DB, is crossin’ over into Virginia and getting college football offers there too… DJ Crossen(Class of 2018)
The Southeast Guilford Lady Falcon Varsity softball team would like to announce that 2015 Catcher/OF – Emma Strouth has verbally committed to play softball for Coach Scot Thomas at Virginia Tech. Emma has been the starting catcher for the Lady Falcons for the past two years. In 2013 she helped them advance to the West championship series in the state playoffs. She has been All-Conference, All-District and All-State for two years. Emma plays showcase softball for the NC Lady Lightning organization. Lady Falcon Head Coach Shannon Cowart says “ Emma is a very hard worker and extremely talented. She has…
from Mark Berman at www.roanoke.com and the Roanoke Times: I have confirmed this from a source with knowledge of the situation: James Johnson informed Clemson coach Brad Brownell today he was leaving his job as a Clemson assistant to become the new head coach of the Hokies. Johnson, a Ferrum graduate, had been on the Tech staff for five years before leaving earlier this month to join the Clemson staff. According to the man with inside on this matter, Mark Berman, the Hokie returning players are all very excited and they plan to return and play for James Johnson….. CLICK…
Mark Berman, Courtside at www.roanoke.com and The Roanoke Times, says that many names are popping up, when it comes to the conversation about the vacant Virginia Tech men’s basketball coaching position…. N.C. State associate head coach Bobby Lutz is in the loop, so is Steve Robinson, assistant to Roy Williams at North Carolina, Gregg Marshall at Witchita State is in the mix and so are about 3-4 other names with Virginia Tech and Central Virginia ties(Jay Wright, Ron Everhart, Mike Young and more)….All are just talk right now, but Bobby Lutz is said to have been at a large breakfast…
from www.theacc.com: BLACKSBURG – The Virginia Tech Athletics Department announced this afternoon that Seth Greenberg has been released from his position of head men’s basketball coach. “I want to thank Coach Greenberg for his dedication and effort in leading Virginia Tech in the early years of ACC membership,” Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Jim Weaver said. Greenberg has a career record of 383-293 in 22 seasons as a collegiate head coach and a 170-123 record in nine seasons at Virginia Tech. Prior to this season, the Hokies had made five consecutive postseason appearances and had six total postseason appearances during…