Uju Ugoka | Senior | Lagos, Nigeria It was a record-setting year for senior Uju Ugoka, who snags the magazine’s women’s basketball athlete of the year honor while playing in her first, and last, full season with the Hokies. …
Wolff and staff add two more Tech women’s basketball coach Dennis Wolff and his staff signed two prospects to letters-of-intent during the spring signing period, adding 6-foot-3 forward Regan Magarity and 6-3 forward Dominique Pow…
Four seniors depart, including Uju Ugoka, who earned second-team All-ACC honors, and Monet Tellier, who scored 1,331 points during her career Monet Tellier finished her career as the ninth-leading scorer in Virginia Tech women’s baske…
Hokies land transfer QB Michael Brewer, a quarterback from Lake Travis, Texas, will be transferring to Virginia Tech after spending the previous three years at Texas Tech. He plans to graduate from Texas Tech in May and then t…
Playing without injured star Uju Ugoka, the Hokies rallied from a 13-point deficit to get their first ACC victory of the season Hannah Young scored 11 points in Tech’s win over BC - her sixth double-digit scoring outing of the season…
Tech women’s basketball player Uju Ugoka followed a winding path to Tech, but that hasn’t stopped her from becoming one of the ACC’s best players Uju Ugoka has carried the Hokies during the early portion of the 2013-14 season, ave…
Monet Tellier has teamed with Uju Ugoka to provide leadership for the Hokies as they head into ACC play. Behind its two senior leaders, the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team closed out 2013 on a high note, winning four straight …
Brielle Blair, Rachel Camp and Khadedra Croker give the Hokies some scoring punch and should alleviate the loss of four seniors following this season Rachel Camp, a guard from Forest City, N.C., has scored more than 2,000 points in her…
The Virginia Tech women’s basketball team won six games in November largely behind increased production on the offensive end of the floor Uju Ugoka recorded four double-doubles in the month of November and has been the Hokies’ most …
#22 Porschia Hadley Class: r-Senior | Position: Forward/Center | Height: 6-3 | Hometown: Montezuma, Ga. Inside the numbers: Started 18 games – the fourth-most on the team – and played in all 30 games … Averaged 2.8 points and 2…
Tech women’s basketball coach Dennis Wolff thinks his team will have more offensive weapons this season, but keeping people healthy is a key A lot was being asked of the 2012-13 Virginia Tech women’s basketball team as it en…
Large, new high-definition video scoreboards in both Lane Stadium and Cassell Coliseum should enhance fans’ experiences while generating more revenue from advertising The new high-definition video scoreboard at Lane Stadium is larger …
Six slated for induction into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame Major League pitcher Joe Saunders and PGA Tour golfer Johnson Wagner headline a six-member class selected for induction into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. T…
Monet Tellier | Junior | Charlotte, N.C. The women’s basketball athlete of the year award goes to junior Monet Tellier, who this season became the 23rd Hokie to reach the 1,000th point milestone– just the eighth as a junior. She…
Here are the top 10 moments of the 2012-13 academic year as compiled by the magazine staff, with help from several in the athletics communications office: 1. Ziegler, Kruzliak claim national titles Alexander Ziegler and Tomas Kruzli…
After going through the reseating process for Lane Stadium, Tech fans shouldn’t have any reservations about going through the process for Cassell Coliseum. After all, the process is practically the same. Season ticket applicat…
The NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships marked the end of the 2012-13 sports year for Virginia Tech athletics, and it rounded out arguably the greatest athletics year in the history of the university. That may seem like…
Two Tech players selected in NFL Draft Tech football players Corey Fuller and Vinston Painter were selected in the sixth round of the 2013 NFL Draft held April 25-27 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Fuller, a receiver from …
Tech’s Alyssa Fenyn finished a productive career with 950 points, nearly 500 rebounds and nearly 300 assists. However, they closed their season with back-to-back losses to Miami, a 64-46 loss on senior day at Cassell Coliseum and a 4…
Lauren Evans has gotten plenty of on-the-job training this season, as she leads all of Tech’s freshmen with 20 starts as of Feb. 6. When the calendar turned to 2013, the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team was coming off a three-g…
Custis, Houseright named ACC Legends Former Tech men’s basketball player Ace Custis and women’s basketball standout Michelle Houseright were named part of the 2013 ACC Legends class, as announced by ACC commissioner John Swofford. E…
Uju Ugoka scored 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds in her Tech debut, and the coaching staff expects more games like that from her in the future. Much like most kids in December – who just can’t wait to open their presents on C…
With his second recruiting class, Virginia Tech women’s basketball coach Dennis Wolff and his staff pulled in a pair who continued his trend of travelling anywhere to bring in the best student-athletes to the school. Signing l…
Like the team, Monet Tellier started the season slowly, but her big game against Wisconsin led the Hokies to a win in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. It certainly wasn’t the start that Tech women’s basketball coach Dennis Wolff and the t…
The Tech athletics department and the Hokie Club plan on using the same general process that was used to reseat Lane Stadium Round 1 of the Virginia Tech athletics department’s reseating plan went quite smoothly. Now, the departm…
#2 Kerry Sarver Class: Senior | Position: Guard | Height: 5-5 | Hometown: Leesburg, Va. Inside the numbers: In her first season as a walk-on, saw action in 11 games, playing a total of 23 minutes, including a season-high five at Wake F…
Virginia Tech women’s basketball coach Dennis Wolff enters his second season as the head coach at Tech and will have more weapons at his disposal this season Porschia Hadley Season 1 of women’s basketball at Virginia Tech under hea…
Aerial Wilson | Junior | Cocoa, Fla. After starting just five games through her first two seasons and averaging less than 15 minutes per game, Aerial Wilson was thrust into the starting point guard role this season for the Hokies and …
Here are the top 10 moments of the 2011-12 school year as compiled by the magazine staff, with help from several in the athletics communications office: 1. Thomas rallies Tech past Miami In a football game that featured 73 points a…
Competing until the final horn sounded on its season, Virginia Tech closed to within four points of Wake Forest in the closing minute of its first-round ACC Tournament matchup, but came up short, as the Hokies ended their season with a…
After succumbing to a life-threatening illness while in college at Tech, Rayna DuBose now is enjoying a successful career as a motivational speaker She’s flown all over the country, given speeches in front of thousands and met…
The Tech women’s basketball team played arguably its best game of the season in a 22-point win at Clemson in its ACC opener The Virginia Tech women’s basketball team has certainly seen its fair share of scoring droughts this s…
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The Tech women’s basketball team has traveled all over the country for games during the early part of this season Virginia Tech has traveled a rough road here at the start of the 2011-12 women’s basketball season, and that doesn’t…
#32 Taylor Ayers Junior Center 6-2 Augusta, Ga. Inside the numbers: Played in 28 games and made three starts … Averaged 4.1 points and 4 rebounds per game … Recorded a team-high 21 blocks and added 10 assists and 10 …
There are many issues that the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team will face this season, and just glancing at the Hokies’ roster can reveal a number of those. Tech will open its season on Friday, Nov. 11, at Old Dominion with a f…
Dennis Wolff became the sixth women’s basketball coach in Virginia Tech history when Tech AD Jim Weaver named him the head coach on March 22. Normally, when making personnel decisions, Tech AD Jim Weaver and his staff take the traditi…
In a tournament that saw five upsets, including No. 6 seed North Carolina making the ACC Tournament championship game, No. 12 Virginia Tech could not pull off an upset of its own and ended its season with a loss to No. 5 seed Georgia Tec…
In the February issue of Inside Hokie Sports, Jimmy Robertson wrote a story about the 50th anniversary of Cassell Coliseum, and within that story, he listed his top 10 moments in the Cassell’s history. The staff posted the story on hok…
The beautiful building is hard to miss: a stunning display of concrete and architecture sitting on the corner of Washington Street and Spring Road on Virginia Tech’s campus. It features a glass front entrance, domed roof and concrete…
Nikki Davis gets direction from head coach Dunkenberger. When Nikki Davis walked into the Elkhorn Middle School gymnasium in the fall of 1998, the youngster wasn’t expecting a lot to come out of the basketball tryout. Susan Tracy, the…
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p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Aerial Wilson had back-to-back career scoring highs and is seeing more playing time as a result of…
#42 ELIZABETH BASHAM Class: Senior Position: Forward Height: 6-2 Hometown: Abingdon, Va. Inside the numbers: Missed all of last season with a shoulder injury, but averaged just more than 10 minutes played per game in 25 contests a…
Alyssa Fenyn averaged 7.5 points per game as a freshman and should greatly improve on those numbers this season. The hallmark of this year’s men’s basketball team, and the reason why many consider them to be one of the top threats i…
QUEEN HARRISON - Overall Athlete of the Year Senior, Hurdler, Women's Track and Field, Richmond, Virginia Queen Harrison For all her crowning glory during her first three years at Virginia Tech – from school records to ACC champio…
One of the highlights of the Hokies’ season was the upset of then-No. 10 North Carolina on Jan. 12, which marked just the fourth win over a top-10 team in school history. They say it’s hard to beat the same team twice in a short spa…
Lindsay Biggs Lindsay Biggs is a shooter. The type of shooter with unlimited range, and one who’s a 3-point threat soon after she crosses half-court. The type of shooter whom opponents prepare for days in advance, trying to figu…
Utahya Drye enters the postgame media session after every game still sweaty, still in uniform and still catching her breath from the game that ended no more than five minutes earlier. But without fail, she always shows up wearing a p…
Latorri Hines-Allen, a forward from Montclair, N.J., is one of three recently signed Tech recruits ranked among the nation's top 100 by ESPNU. As fun as it’s been to watch this year’s five freshmen begin to inject new energy into …
Alyssa Fenyn, who averaged 10.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in her first six starts, is a big reason why Tech's five freshmen have made an immediate impact. They won’t be mistaken for the “Fab Five” of early 90s Michigan lo…
Kerri GardinWhile looking ahead to the new basketball season in this issue, a visit by a former women’s great in late September gave us reason to look back. Kerri Gardin (2002-06) was recently in Blacksburg visiting with the coaching s…
Lindsay Biggs #20 Class: Senior Position: Guard Height: 5-11 Hometown: Midlothian, Va. Inside the numbers: Started all 30 games a year ago and averaged 12.5 points per game, which ranked second on the team … Nailed 71 3-pointe…
Nikki Davis will be Tech's full-time point guard this season, and her attacking style of play should help the team to some higher-scoring games. If Tech head men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg is excited about the defensive menta…
Six to be inducted into the Tech Sports Hall of Fame A former head coach and former student-athletes from five different sports make up the 2009 class selected for the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. The six inductees include: …
ATHLETE OF THE YEAR - Marcel Lomnicky (men's track and field) Nitra, Slovakia Freshman - Thrower Marcel Lomnicky has recorded a career’s worth of accomplishments in less than six months. The freshman from Slovakia enrolle…
Sophomore center Brittany Gordon really came on late in the season, nearly averaging a double-double over the last five regularseason games. Sitting in the media room after the regular-season ending loss to Georgia Tech on Feb. 26, he…
Jill Jameson When you watch a basketball game, you’re probably just focused on what goes on between the lines while the clock is ticking and the ball is in play. But how did the teams get to the arena? Where did they sleep? What did…
Junior Utahya Drye continued her breakout season when she tallied career highs of 30 points, 16 rebounds and seven steals on Feb. 2 against USC Upstate. As the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team stumbled its way through an overti…
This past fall, members of the men’s basketball team read to children at local elementary schools. Practice, class, rehabilitating injuries, film review, training room, study hall and tutoring sessions – it’s all in a day’s wo…
My New Year’s Resolution is … To have my best year ever academically and baseball-wise. Also, to win the ACC Championship. - Rhett Ballard, Baseball To learn how to dance. - Martha Blakely, Women’s Tennis To become an a…
“I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him if it's in threes. If he has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.” -Mitch H…
Shanel HarrisonSince last checking in with the women’s hoops team following a nine-point loss at Wisconsin on Dec. 4, the Hokies have played .500 ball by going 3-3 prior to the start of ACC play, a six-game stretch that was book-ended …
Head women’s basketball coach Beth Dunkenberger may have put together her best recruiting class at Tech with the signing of Porshcia Hadley, Alyssa Fenyn, Abby Redick and Aerial Wilson. While the women’s basketball season still ha…
With her parents in attendance, senior Amber Hall had one of the best games of her career by scoring 14 points and blocking three shots against St. Joe’s in Nashville on Nov. 28. Not many people saw it aside from the few teammates h…
21 Brittany Cook Redshirt senior Guard 6-0 Narrows, Va. Inside the numbers: Started all 30 games and led the ACC with 17.9 points per contest … Had great percentages, ranking sixth in the league (and first among guards) with a…
Brittany Cook The United States is just a few short weeks away from one of the most important presidential elections in its history. As the debate rages on about whether John McCain or Barack Obama is better equipped to handle the blund…
Virginia Tech is entering its fifth season in the ACC and there is a lot of going on within the athletics program. We sat down with Jim Weaver, director of athletics, as part of our annual Q&A to get his thoughts on a wide range of topic…