As reported several weeks ago, 11 Virginia Tech student-athletes are or will be participating this summer in Coach for College, a global initiative to promote higher education founded by former Duke tennis player Parker Goyer. The Tech contingent is among 62 ACC student-athletes who have headed or will be heading to Vietnam to teach children basketball, soccer, volleyball and tennis. More importantly, the curriculum also includes health, physics, morality and English.

Those participating for Tech include Christina Patten (lacrosse), Julie Wolfinger (lacrosse), Ryan Rotanz (lacrosse), Colleen Thom (women’s cross country), Jessica Trapeni (women’s cross country), Drew Dillon (women’s cross country), Aunye Boone (women’s track), Devin Cornwall (men’s track), Keith Ricks (men’s track), Morgan Allen (women’s swimming) and Kaleigh Gomes (women’s swimming).

Hokiesports.com has set up a blog that will be updated periodically by the student-athletes to report on their experiences. The first update was this afternoon and can be found here.

Those fans wishing to brave the snow on Sunday can come out to the women's tennis match at Burrows/Burleson Tennis Center at noon against ACC foe Maryland and receive a free tennis racquet keychain!

Rather have a Virginia Tech hat? Then be one of the first to Thompson Field on Tuesday to see the Hokie lacrosse team aim for its second straight win when it takes on Vanderbilt at 4 p.m.!

Come out to this week's home athletics event for some great free giveaways!

The first 100 fans at Monday's 6 p.m. lacrosse match with Duke will get a VT car flag.

Virginia Tech's women's lacrosse assistant coach Megan Burker was one of 24 players named to the 2007-08 United States Developmental women's lacrosse team following a three-day tryout at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County coordinated by US Lacrosse. A total of 98 players - including Hokies' junior midfielder Rachel Culp - competed in the tryout for the 24-player Elite and Developmental teams.

The next activity for the U.S. teams will be the Stars & Stripes Weekend in October. The event is slated to be held in Portland, Ore., and will feature competition against the University of California, the University of Oregon and Stanford University.

For a full roster of the two teams and more information on US Lacrosse, visit www.uslacrosse.org.