Radford women picked 2nd in Big South poll

Defending Big South regular-season champ High Point topped the women's poll, totaling 76 points and five first-place votes from the league's head coaches.

Radford, which lost in the Big South women's tournament title game last season, had 57 points and one first-place vote.

Charleston Southern was third, followed by Winthrop, USC Upstate, Gardner-Webb, Longwood, Presbyterian and UNC Asheville.

Radford's Adriana Shipp-Davis, a Longwood transfer, made the preseason women's All-Big South first team.

Radford's Joi Williams made the preseason second team.

High Point topped the men's poll, reaping 161 points and 17 first-place votes from a panel of coaches and media members.

The Panthers return four starters from the team that won the Big South regular-season title.

Winthrop was second with 134 points and one first-place vote.

Longwood was third, followed by UNC Asheville, Charleston Southern, Gardner-Webb, Radford, Presbyterian and USC Upstate.

The Radford men must replace all five starters from a team that went 16-17 overall and 5-11 in Big South play.

WOMEN'S SOCCER No.

3 Christopher Newport 6, Roanoke 0 Alex Devers scored two goals Tuesday to lead the Captains (11-0-1) past the host Maroons (2-7-3).

WOMEN'S SWIMMING UVa signs Olympic medalist Virginia has announced the signing of two-time U.S.

Olympian Katie Grimes.

Grimes, who was the top-rated recruit in the high school graduating class of 2024, will join the program in January.

The Nevada native won the 400 individual medley at the U.S.

Olympic trials in June and took silver in that event at the Paris Olympics.

She also was 10th in the 1,500 freestyle in Paris.

This year she became the first U.S.

woman to compete in both pool and open-water swimming at the same Olympics.

She took 15th in the 10-kilometer race in the Seine.

She took fourth in the 800 freestyle as a 15-year-old at the 2021 Olympics.

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Gunter gets fellowship Roanoke native and Virginia Tech graduate Madison Gunter was named Tuesday as one of the ACC's four John McLendon Foundation Leadership Initiative Fellows for this school year.

Gunter will work in the ACC office during this school year thanks to the McLendon Foundation, which provides minorities with educational resources and work experiences.

After graduating from Tech in December, Gunter handled media relations for the Tech softball team last season..

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