Will Sears

[Virginia Tech Women's Basketball @HokiesWBB]

America the Beautiful! 🇺🇸

Happy Independence Day from the #Hokies

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Stacking Days 🏀

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Laying the foundation 🧱

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HOKIE HAUL 🎒

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Frosh on the scene! 🧡

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Mike Brown shares a simple but powerful definition of winning in life.

"Even if you don't have the quote unquote ultimate success that you think you deserve - if you get knocked down in life and you're able to get back up and keep fighting - that's a fricking win."

"Most of our guys have probably had to go through that. But I think most people in the world have to go through it."

Success isn't always the result - sometimes it's just refusing to stay down.

It's choosing to endure, get back up, and keep fighting.

Successful people are relentless.
(🎥SNY )

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[App State Women’s Basketball @AppStateWBB]

Reserve your seat for our second annual Denim & Diamonds event! 💎

🍽️ Food
🎶 Live Music
🔨 Live Auction
💎 Chance to win a REAL diamond

Join us for a special evening supporting App State Women’s Basketball!

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#RareAir

[Dave Scarangella @DaveScarangella]

Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord.

D-Day.

I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink.

Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended.

He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006.

His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything.

His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from.

He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss.

June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach.

In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it.

“No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.”

He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach.

No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all.

That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever.

It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back.

I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison.

So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days.

Rest In Peace...

[Virginia Tech Women's Basketball @HokiesWBB]

The SEC/ACC Challenge is back in Cassell! 🏰

#Hokies host Tennessee on Thursday, December 3.

🔗 https://t.co/DmG4KWaHFy

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Historic. Transformational. Game-changing.

Virginia Tech has received a $75 million commitment, the largest in university history. From Invest to Win to the future ahead, the momentum continues. 📈

➡️ https://t.co/Gjg8uBfE6b

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Ready for Cassell! 🏰

@Kate_sears12

[App State Athletics @appstatesports]

On our home turf in the High Country ⛰️

Closing out a busy week of the #MountaineerSpringTour with an appearance in Boone!

#GoApp

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Winston-Salem, you showed up like you always do for the #MountaineerSpringTour. What a great night!

Next stop: Boone. Tomorrow!

#GoApp

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𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 & 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒔 🏀🏋️‍♀️

Follow the #Hokies on IG! 📲

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Welcome 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄, @coach_keshab! 🦃

Head Coach Megan Duffy has added Ke'Sha Blanton to the #Hokies staff as an Assistant Coach!

🗞️ » https://t.co/lgSAvdODmL

[The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill @UNC]

Under the lights of Kenan Stadium, #UNC26 heard from 11-time Grammy nominee and Country music star, Eric Church.

Church expressed to #UNCgrads, at Carolina they will always have a place they belong.

[Virginia Tech Women's Basketball @HokiesWBB]

Hokie Nation has the best moms! 💐

[Dustin Kerns @CoachDKerns]

WHAT. A. MOMENT.

Congratulations @lukecombs

[David Cunningham @therealdcunna]

#Hokies women's basketball has five non-conference games scheduled for 2026-27: North Carolina Central, Delaware, James Madison, La Salle and Appalachian State.

Return trip of home-and-home for Dukes. Start of a three-game series with Mountaineers. More:
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