SallyAnn Gowen

I am proudly: Catholic, Wife, Mom, Grandma, Virginia Tech Hokie, Phillies Phanatic, Washington football fan, and FINALLY blessed to say Blacksburg VA resident!

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝐔𝐍𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃: 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐑𝐁𝟏. 𝐌𝐆𝐌.

World Team Trials Champs.
World Team Members.
All-Access from the trio's weekend in Geneva.

#ALLINALLTHETIME #Hokies 🦃

[LiveBreatheHokie @burgfanvtsertc]

FOUR #Hokies take the top spot! Bassett, Miller, Carini, and Konopka earn No. 1 at their weights plus Rozas and Garcia also make the list in their respective weights.

The future of @HokiesWrestling catching fire #GobbleGobble 🦃

[Tech Sideline @TechSideline]

COMMIT: The #Hokies land Virginia 4⭐️ wide receiver Cam Wade (5-11, 165)!

Wade, a Leesburg, Va., native, chose Tech over Alabama, Florida, Florida State and others!

Virginia Tech was not in his top-5 last month.

@d1cam5x | @TheHokieWay

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys — the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice — leaning on their bikes in the summer heat when they saw something no child should ever have to experience.

A man walked away with 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas. She was supposed to be playing outside. She was supposed to be safe.

And in that single, awful second — while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up — these two boys made a choice.

They got on their bikes and they went after him.

No hesitation. No waiting for permission. No "someone else will handle it." Just two pairs of legs pumping hard through the streets of Lancaster, eyes locked on a stranger who had a little girl that wasn't his.

They tracked him. They stayed close. They didn't let him disappear into the afternoon like something that was never going to be found.

And then they confronted him.

Two teenagers. On bikes. Against a grown man who had already done the unthinkable. They forced him to stop.

He let Jocelyn go.

"The entire thing lasted only minutes." — Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised — by someone, somehow — to believe that other people's emergencies are your business too.

When reporters asked one of them afterward why they did it, he gave the most deflating, most beautiful, most teenage answer imaginable.

He shrugged.

"I just felt like it was the right thing to do."
No speech. No GoFundMe. No press conference. Just a kid who saw a little girl in danger and couldn't make himself look away.

Jocelyn went home. She was reunited with her family. She got to grow up.

Because of two boys on bikes who hadn't been asked, hadn't been trained, hadn't been paid — and did it anyway.

[SallyAnn Gowen @allpathslead2VT]

👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥 Welcome home to Hunter and Chloe!

[Virginia Tech Men's Basketball @HokiesMBB]

The MVP is H👑ME!

➡️ https://t.co/WpIFFGUf8Q

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ⚔️

Made to represent VT & the US of A 🇺🇸
Savage. RB1. MGM.

#ALLINALLTHETIME #Hokies 🦃

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

June is for the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

[SallyAnn Gowen @allpathslead2VT]

This gave me goosebumps!

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

"Bridger Walker is the boy who saved his younger sister from a vicious dog attack...

He received ninety stitches throughout his body, but saved his three-year-old sister from certain death.

"If someone was going to die, it must be me, I'm the older brother."

The World Boxing Council (WBC) recognized him as a World Heavyweight Champion for a day!

It will remain in the official historical record of the WBC.

For that one day, he was the best fighter in the world."

[SallyAnn Gowen @allpathslead2VT]

@chantel_lovett

[Tony Robie @ROBIEwrestling]

We’re getting the band back together again!
Let’s Go…..

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝐇𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝.

Our staff leading @hokieswrestling on and off the mat.
Ready to take Blacksburg to unprecedented heights.

#ALLINALLTHETIME #ThisIsHome #Hokies 🦃

[SallyAnn Gowen @allpathslead2VT]

👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥💖💖

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝙉𝙤 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜. 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙃𝙊𝙈𝙀, 𝙏𝙮 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙯.

The greatest heavyweight in program history returns home ahead of 2026-2027 season. Welcome back home, big guy.
🔗 » https://t.co/NfabI11t8E

#ALLINALLTHETIME #ThisIsHome #Hokies 🦃

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

The first thing K'Andre Miller did after advancing to the Stanley Cup Final was hold his new baby

No amount of success will ever replace the value of family.

This is what changes culture.

[SallyAnn Gowen @allpathslead2VT]

@eaguigui65 @Bluegrass504 👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥

[RosarySon @SkyVirginSon]

A CATHOLIC TEENAGER DIED AT 15 AND LEFT A PROPHECY THAT NOW TERRIFIES THE INTERNET.

Saint Carlo Acutis said:

“The Eucharist is my highway to Heaven.”

He spent his short life documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world.

Lanciano.
Fatima.
Buenos Aires.

Science examined consecrated Hosts that turned into human heart tissue.

John 6:55

“My flesh is true food.”

The modern world believes in aliens, simulations, and ghosts.

But the Real Presence is “too impossible”?

Maybe the greatest miracle on earth is happening quietly at every Mass.

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞

Aaron Seidel went savage in Geneva to punch his ticket onto his first World Team! The best still yet to come.

#ALLINALLTHETIME #Hokies 🦃

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝐑𝐁𝟏. 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐇𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭.

KACHOW! RB1 continues to run wild and punches his ticket onto his first World Team. The strong summer continues for the New Jersey native!

#ALLINALLTHETIME #Hokies 🦃

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝐁𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚

The generational run continues! Bo Bassett completes the Triple Crown and makes his third World Team of the year. He just lives for this.

#ALLINALLTHETIME #Hokies 🦃

[SallyAnn Gowen @allpathslead2VT]

@Kproffitt0 @hokiesnoop8 @CoachMeganDuffy @DuvalElite @SelectEventsBB @PrepGirlsHoops @PGHFlorida @SUTSReport Welcome to the Hokie Nation, Kendall! #ThisIsHome