Good Morning Monarchs. Making a good first impression is always important.

One Monarch made more than just a good impression in her debut season.

We’ve got all the details and much more in today’s Brew! Check it out below!

🌊 Making Waves
🗓 Save The Date(s)
🏀 They’reee Bacckkkk
👑 And much, much more!

🏀 THEY’REEE BACCKKK

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Making Waves. Oh What a Knight for the ODU rowing squad.

This week, freshman Nicole Knight was named the American Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year.

This is the first postseason superlative award for an ODU rower in program history. At the end of the conference championship earlier this month, Knight was named Second Team All-American Athletic Conference and earned the team’s Freshman award.

A native of Yorktown, Virginia, Knight walked onto the team this year with no prior experience rowing.

Overcoming a hearing impairment to make the top varsity eight boat, Knight served as an inspiration to teammates and worked with the second V8 boat the only week she didn’t travel in the spring. She also found time to run a half-marathon this spring and finished in the top ten of her age group.

🌊: More On Knight’s Historic Season

🔼 Save The Date(s). Nope, you don’t have any weddings to attend. You don’t even have to buy any gifts.

Just throw on the ODU gear and book your fall dates with the reigning BIG EAST field hockey champs.

The Lady Monarchs announced their loaded schedule for the fall, which kicks off on August 30th with a road showdown at in-state rival, Richmond.

Last season, ODU went 14-6 and captured the first BIG EAST Championship in program history. ODU won 12-straight games at one point during the year, including a 3-1 win over Liberty in the BIG EAST Tournament final.

🗓: Breaking Down The Full 2024 Schedule

🔼 Welcome Aboard. A new face is joining the reigning conference champs next fall.

Earlier this week, women’s soccer coach Angie Hind announced the hiring of Zach Hanson to join the 2024 coaching staff as assistant coach. Hanson has previously coached at Eastern Kentucky and VMI and most recently served as the Girls Academy Director at Skyline Elite SC in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

⚽️: More On The Newest Monarch On The Sideline

👑 JOIN THE TEAM

Our friends at Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists has been serving Hampton Roads for over 100 years and is proud to be the team physicians for ODU Athletics.

With 4 convenient locations, 24 physicians, eight orthopaedic specialties, and 4 walk-in clinics—Atlantic Orthopaedics Specialists is the largest, most comprehensive orthoapedic practice in our region.

📞 CALL TO THE HALL

We have all have important phone calls that happen throughout our lives.

Moments and calls that we’ll remember forever.

Recently, five all-time ODU greats got one of those calls as the 2024 Class of the ODU Sports Hall of Fame was announced.

This year’s class includes Trey Freeman (Men’s Basketball), Christy Longacre (Field Hockey), Jonathan Plisco (Football), Evan Newton (Men’s Soccer) and Marty Bradley (Athletic Training).

The group will be inducted at a dinner at Chartway Arena in early September.

🤔 MONARCH TRIVIA

After missing the first few weeks of the season, Justin Verlander has returned and tossed another gem for the Astros this week.

Through his first eight starts of the 2024 season, Verlander is averaging 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.

Of the past 10 seasons, how many of those has Verlander averaged 8+ strikeouts per nine innings?

Got a guess?

Scroll down to the bottom of this email and see if you had the right answer!

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📅 WHAT’S ON TAP?

See ya’ll in August!

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Nine.

Verlander has averaged 8+ strikeouts per nine innings for nine of the past 10 seasons, including a career-high 12.2 in 2018.

🦁 Have a great one,y’all!