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Inside Hokie Sports
Inside Hokie Sports receives national honor
at CoSIDA Convention
Inside Hokie Sports, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department’s in-
house publication, received a national award when the online version
was named the top online magazine nationally at the 2017 College
Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Convention held in
Orlando, Florida on June 11-14.
Jimmy Robertson, the editor of Inside Hokie Sports, and graphic
designer John Sours oversaw the launching of a new, enhanced, and
free online version of Inside Hokie Sports last August. The new online
format includes the implementation of video and photo galleries, and
it allows readers to bookmark articles, start a slideshow, share stories
through one’s social media outlets, and more. To read the latest issue,
please click -
http://inside.hokiesports.com.
Today, Inside Hokie Sports is printed and posted online six times a year.
Slye raises $63,000 for cancer research
Last April andMay, Tech kicker Joey Slye participated in The Leukemia
& Lymphoma Society’s “Man & Woman of the Year” competition in
which candidates for the honor raise money for LLS blood cancer
research. Each dollar raised by a candidate counted as a vote.
Nominated by Tony Peay, a Virginia Tech graduate and executive vice
president of Union Bank & Trust—and someone whose mother passed
away from multiple myeloma—Slye didn’t win the competition, but
he wound up raising $63,000 for the cause. Slye got involved in the
LLS competition primarily because his brother, A.J., passed away from
leukemia in 2014 at the age of 20.
“My brother is gone,” Slye said. “There is nothing I can do to bring
him back. But for me and everyone else that helped me in my campaign
to give that step forward and to pass the torch to someone else is huge
for me. It’s hard to sit back and look and realize there is nothing I can
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do, but at the same time, I really want to see how many lives we can
save with the money we raised.”
Slye said the competition raised approximately $600,000 for cancer
research, and the man who won raised $143,000 of that. As a result of
raising more than $50,000, Slye was able to dedicate a treatment plan
in honor of someone, and he chose his brother.
“Actually, the treatment plan we got is AML [acute myeloid leukemia]
treatment, and that’s the cancer that took A.J.’s life,” Slye said. “Now, we’re
fighting it with A.J.’s name. Anyone who receives treatment of that specific
AML treatment will have A.J.’s name attached to it. It beat him, but anyone
who gets cured from it is going to be cured by A.J., so that’s awesome.”
Slye plans on continuing to raise money for cancer research through
his family’s foundation—SlyeStrong#6 Foundation.
Outlaw to miss upcoming hoops season
Virginia Tech forward Ty Outlaw tore the ACL in his right knee
during a pickup game earlier this summer and will be out for the
2017-18 season.
Outlaw averaged 6.3 points and 2.8 rebounds last season, starting 14
of the Hokies’ 33 games. He moved into the starting lineup after Chris
Clarke’s ACL injury, and he wound up averaging 13.9 points and 4.6
rebounds in the Hokies’ final eight games.
Outlaw missed the 2015-16 season with a heart condition. The senior
from Roxboro, North Carolina would be able to appeal to the NCAA for
a sixth season because of missing two entire seasons with an injury.
Tech football duo wins golf tournament
Two former Virginia Tech football players showed their talent in
another sport this past summer—golf.
Former Tech head coach Frank Beamer and legendary former wide
receiver Carroll Dale, two members of the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of
Fame, won the Member-Member Tournament at The Olde Farm Golf
Club held June 23-24 outside of Bristol, Virginia.
Beamer andDale won their flight with 94 points andwon the Shootout.
The event featured 40 golfers.