About 400 kids came out to Meet the Blazers Day on Saturday morning. The Valdosta State football team hosted a clinic and signed autographs for some of their biggest fans.
Below is a wrap-up of Valdosta State's sixth day of practice on Saturday, which featured the squad's only two-a-day practice schedule of the preseason.
Despite not having played a single match in Valdosta State history, the VSU soccer program was picked to finish sixth out of eight Gulf South Conference teams by GSC coaches.
The Valdosta State Football team was selected to finish third in the Gulf South Conference while eight Blazers garnered preseason All-GSC honors in a vote of the coaches, according to an announcement made by the league office on Tuesday.
It's not the Blazers who are the first ones to practice on Valdosta State's new football fields. David Dean and his coaching staff are holding camps on the new turf for high school players.
Since the football program's existence - that's since 1982 - Valdosta State hasn't had its own practice facility. It would take hours each week just to go to and from their usual off-campus practice grounds. On Friday, that officially changed.
The football and first-year women's soccer teams
Valdosta State men's tennis player Philip Pakebusch has been named one of the top five male student-athletes in the Gulf South Conference as the conference announced Friday that the senior has been named a GSC "Top Ten" Award winner.
As a junior, Marti Littlefield made great strides on defense and continued her offensive prowess, finishing the year hitting .380. The work paid off as she earned her second All-American nod in three seasons.
After placing four players on the Daktronics All-Region Team, Valdosta State saw three players named to the National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association’s All-Region Team
In a rematch of 2010 NCAA Division II National Championship match, Valdosta State gained a measure of revenge as the Blazers defeated Barry 5-2 to win the 2011 national title.
Second-ranked Valdosta State rolled to a 5-1 victory over Queen's College in the Round of 16 at the NCAA Division II Men's Tennis Championships Wednesday morning at Sanlando Park.
The entire field for the NCAA Division II Softball Tournament was announced Monday, and, for the 10th time in VSU’s history, Valdosta State made the field
Arkansas Tech scored in all but the second and seventh innings in defeating Valdosta State 12-2 in an elimination game of the Gulf South Conference Tournament Saturday at USA Stadium.
The Blazers beat Ouachita Baptist, 3-1, and Arkansas Tech, 2-1, in order to face the only other unbeaten team, Arkansas-Monticello, at 12 p.m. Saturday.
Valdosta State Softball can now boast seven All-Gulf South Conference players this season, headlined by Holly Satterfield, who takes home her second consecutive GSC East Pitcher of the Year award.