This Week in VMI Athletics - Jan. 18

Welcome to another week here in the exciting life of VMI...Let's open by looking forward. This week, the Media Relations office will send a member of its team to the Great Dane Classic (in New York City) with Track and Field. There will not be a live blog due to the layout of the meet, potential lack of a secure, consistent work area, etc, but there will be Twitter updates throughout the event, both here and (we expect) here as well. We'll also be taking pictures, as our equipment allows, both for a post-meet photo gallery and for our files throughout the year...Certainly excited about this event, as it's held at the home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, one of the more noted indoor T&F facilities in America.

Speaking of track, their interactive guide was released to the world on Sunday. Take a look here...Special thanks to Joel Balthaser Design for his extra effort on this project. The team also competed in Ohio this past week, with James Alexander and Jenna Moye leading the way. Moye now tops the conference results for the women's mile, although granted, it is still early in the year.

Basketball's Stan Okoye was named Big South Freshman of the Week just a few moments ago, thanks to his two double-doubles for the Keydets' in Big South action last week. Unfortunately, the team suffered two setbacks in those games...Now, they have to get off the slide by facing the defending conference champion Radford Highlanders. That game is Thursday at 7 in Radford...The Highlanders are beatable, as they come off a game in which they were, to be honest, defeated quite handily by the Charleston Southern Buccaneers (70-55). Of course, CSU has been VMI's lone conference win thus far in 09-10...Strange.

Wrestling had a great week, winning two matches, including pulling off the 21-18 upset at Duke Sunday afternoon. The Keydets also knocked off Franklin & Marshall earlier in the week (33-10) and fell to the Citadel in their SoCon opener (24-10). Josh Wine remains undefeated on the season, as the Keydets recorded their first win against an ACC opponent since defeating Duke, 22-15, on Nov. 13, 2005. It also marked VMI's first road win since a triumph over The Citadel on Feb. 18, 2007 (strangely, the score that day was also 21-18).

Finally, Swimming and Diving got back to action at Davidson, suffering a setback on Friday evening. That's all for this week, as it's expected to be pretty quiet around Post until the 26th, when Southern Virginia visits Cameron Hall for the annual Rockbridge County Shootout (that's not the official name) with the Keydets.