This Week in VMI Athletics - Nov. 2

It's time for another update on what's been going on around VMI Post this week.

Women's sports have been the highlight of the past seven days, without question, headlined by the women's cross country team at the BSC Championships. The squad finished second, which was the best effort ever by the team at the conference meet. Hannah Granger won the individual title, which was a program first, and Jenna Moye was the Freshman of the Year, thanks to a fourth-place effort. Moye was the program's first-ever Freshman of the Year. Coach Paul Spangler was very deserving of his women's Coach of the Year honor, which he received post-meet.

Women's soccer continued its impressive end-of-season run, following up last week's win over Liberty with a 2-1 win over Radford this past Friday at Patchin Field. The Keydets celebrated Senior Day with two goals from seniors, as Chrissy Beach and Kat Underwood found the back of the net to give VMI its first-ever win over RU on the pitch. The players then found out Sunday that they would be the #5 seed in this week's Big South Tournament, and would take on #4 Coastal Carolina at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Charleston, S.C. A full schedule is available in the last paragraph of this article.

Also from the women's pitch, Angela Redmond's 89.0 save percentage ranks eighth in the country at the conclusion of the regular season. Certainly a stat worth noting.

Men's cross country was fourth at the BSC Championships, as they did not (in the words of Coach Spangler) have their best performance. Men's soccer will look to break a three-game losing streak tonight against Liberty, while swimming and diving just competed in New Jersey this past weekend. Swim results are notoriously hard to get, regardless of the school, but a full release for the men's side of that trip should be up shortly (women's release is here, as they earned their second win in program history...both by one point over NJIT).

Football suffered another disappointing loss, falling 31-21 to Charleston Southern Saturday afternoon. These league games have been remarkably similar, but the road gets tougher from here. Lynchburg is a tough place to play now, and the Flames will come in ranked 16th in FCS.

That's it from Post this week...Check back next week for another update!

P:S: The full baseball schedule should be posted within the next day or so.