I haven’t really been paying attention to them… but quite the bounce back since the cancelled season…
Are we a volleyball school now? 9-1 to start the season!
https://twitter.com/UVAVolleyball/status/1836216570646765663
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Not smart on volleyball, but it seems like we were scheduling for success? Not sure how well the P5 category holds for volleyball, but West Virginia is the only P5 school that we’ve played, and the lone loss was to Coastal Carolina. Conference play begins soon, so I guess that we’ll see soon.
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Yea, feels like there’s a lot of close games/matches, not really blowing teams out, and concur we aren’t playing power houses as of yet, but still it’s only 4th time they’ve been 9-1 in program history and first since 2002.
Shannon Wells seems to have them trending up, perhaps a little behind the progress softball has made as they made NCAAs last year, or where I hope WBB gets to this year.
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Anyone who’s interested, they’ll be playing in JPJ on Oct 6th, was going to head down for it, but had family conflict. Wrestling in JPJ last year was fun, glad they’re giving these other sports that opportunity.
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Field Hockey also doing well… #3 nationally and 5-0
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Younger daughter has been watching some of the field hockey and volleyball matches. She says the field hockey team is 100% legit and a solid national championship contender, but the volleyball team has been playing creampuffs. Which isn’t a bad idea, gotta build confidence somehow, and the team is better than its been in recent past, but they have a ways to go before being a contender for anything serious.
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Guess we’ll find out tonight w/ VB…
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Yea why not. Whoo are they?
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You must not be an NHL fan at all then. 
Keith Tkachuk
The Tkachuk’s connection to the NHL starts with Keith. The patriarch spent 18 seasons in the NHL with the Jets/Coyotes, Blues, and Thrashers.
He was drafted by the Jets with the No. 19 pick in the 1990 draft, eventually becoming captain of the team in '93. When the team moved from Winnipeg to Phoenix, renaming the franchise as the Coyotes, Tkachuk remained as captain of the club. Keith led the NHL in goals during the '96-97 season, becoming the first American-born player to achieve that feat.
The power forward was traded to the Blues in 2000 where he spent five seasons with the club. He was traded in '07 to the Thrashers, but he returned that summer to St. Louis for the final three years of his career.
“Walt,” as he became to be known, is one of just five American-born players to score 500 goals and was the sixth American to record 1,000 points. He ended his career as a five-time All-Star.
Matthew Tkachuk
You won’t find many players that have both an incredible amount of skill and uncanny ability to piss off opponents quite like Matthew has.
Calgary selected the forward with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2016 draft, recording 48 points as a rookie during the '16-17 season. He also racked up over 100 penalty minutes — just like his old man did.
Matthew finished his Flames career with 152 goals and 230 assists with the Flames, totaling 382 points in 431 games played. He elected to sign an extension with Calgary and was traded to Florida this offseason. He signed a massive eight-year, $76 million contract with the team.
In his first season with the Panthers, Matthew proved to be well worth it, finishing with over 100 points and named one of the three finalists for the Hart Trophy. He followed that up with an 88-point campaign in 2023-24.
Brady Tkachuk
If players thought Matthew was a pain to play against, let me introduce you to Brady.
The No. 4 pick from the Senators in the 2018 draft plays the same style as his father and brother, possessing a ton of skill but never afraid to mix it up.
He’s only been in the league for six seasons, but Brady already has a reputation as an instigator. He’s recorded over 100 penalty minutes in four seasons, but he also has 349 career points in 440 games.
Brady is a large part of the young core in Ottawa. Three years ago, he signed a seven-year, $57.5-million contract with the Senators and three weeks later, he was named captain of the Senators.
How many Tkachuk brothers are there?
In terms of brothers, there are just the two, Matthew and Brady. Matthew, 26, is two years older than Brady.
They do have a sister, Taryn, who is quite the athlete herself. She is currently at the University of Virginia where she plays on the field hockey team. In high school, she was a star at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School, leading all high school players in the state of Missouri in total points and goals all four years she played. She also led the state twice in assists.
In total, she finished her high school with 135 goals and 361 points.
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Good looking FH result today:
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Man… rallied bacl from 2 sets down!
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Team account says first ACC-opening win since 2015.
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Volleyball thread so I will brag for @chavlicek15
His daughter Grace is playing at Auburn initially behind a stud upperclassman (woman) at her position. She was gonna redshirt but unfortunately the other girl got hurt. So the coach burned the shirt and Grace Hav had 10 kills or blocks or whatever it is called in her first match.
Very cool for Uncle Fresh to see
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What position does she play?
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Middle blocker
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