Hometown Sports Extra

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Hometown Sports Extra is an examination of the importance of sports to our hometowns through the people who help us love them.

08/14/2024

Hometown Sports Extra: The man who shocked the world

Before winning gold in the men's 1500 at the Paris Olympics, Cole Hocker spent a year training in one of our hometowns. Hear from Virginia Tech track and field coach Ben Thomas about his connection to Hocker, and why he was honing his world-class skills in Blacksburg. File in the folder in your newstore - Cole Hocker Podcast Thank you for your help!

13 min
07/17/2024

Hometown Sports Extra- Becoming and Olympian

There may not be a greater honor in athletics than having the chance to represent your country in the Olympics. For one former Wahoo who now calls Blacksburg home, she gets to do exactly that in Paris this year after setting the women's national record in pole vault.

18 min
06/12/2024

Hometown Sports Extra - A Viking through and through: Northside's Bill Pope and his basketball journey

Bill Pope has been the head coach of the Northside boys basketball varsity team for almost 4 decades. WDBJ7 did a feature on Pope a few weeks before he won his third state championship, but only a fraction of the interview made it on-air. Now, you can listen to the full interview where we talked about everything from his earliest memories of playing basketball to the major milestone moments of his coaching career thus far.

47 min
05/08/2024

Hometown Sports Extra: Catching up with Liz Kitley

Virginia Tech basketball's Liz Kitley is one of the best to ever wear a Hokie uniform. When an injury in the final game of the regular season cut her college career short, she had a front row seat to the many changes that overtook the program she helped build. Between grieving the end of one chapter to the exciting start of another where she is part of the most exciting WNBA draft class in history, Kitley speaks to Hokie Nation for the first time since joining the professional ranks.

19 min
09/21/2023

Hometown Sports Extra Ep. 7 - Alleghany Cougars Coach Will Fields

The historic Alleghany Cougar football team is off to a 4-0 start to the 2023 season following the merging of Covington and Alleghany high schools. Hear from head coach Will Fields about the consolidation, the strengths of his team, and the exciting beginning of the new football program.

19 min
08/17/2023

Hometown Sports Extra Ep. 6 - Homegrown talent Lauren Sisler

If you're a college football fan, you've probably seen Giles County product Lauren Sisler shimmying on the sidelines. From her first job in television at your Hometown Station all the way to ESPN and the SEC network, Sisler has done it all in the world of sports media.

23 min
07/05/2023

Hometown Sports Extra Ep. 5 - Going Bananas with Virginia Tech's Tanner Thomas

The Savanah Bananas organization puts on the self-proclaimed greatest show in sports. Fielding two professional teams in the Bananas and Party Animals, athletes play baseball under modified, fan-first rules while doing a variety of impressive stunts and tricks and maintaining the core elements of America's Pastime. As the popularity of the organization has sky rocked, one player with Southwest Virginia ties has been there for it all.

24 min
05/24/2023

Hometown Sports Extra Ep. 4 - Rail Yard Dawgs Announcer Mitch Stewart

As the voice of the Rail Yard Dawgs, Lord Botetourt High School alum Mitch Stewart had a bird's eye view of every game in Roanoke's magical run to a President's Cup championship! We talked with him about his journey to calling games in his hometown and why this season will never be forgotten.

33 min
03/15/2023

Hometown Sports Extra Ep. 3 - Dancing with DBJ

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to go mad! Anthony Romano and Brittany Morgan break down their March Madness brackets for both the men's and women's basketball teams before the tournament gets underway.

44 min
01/25/2023

Hometown Sports Extra Ep. 2 - Next (Wo)man Up

An athlete from Christiansburg shares her journey from our hometown to signing a contract to play in the most competitive women's football league in the world.

8 min
11/22/2022

Hometown Sports Extra Episode 1 - Champion Chat - North Cross Raiders football

The North Cross Raider football program has won their first championship since 2019. Head coach Stephen Alexander shares his thoughts on avenging last year's loss at states, his feelings on his graduating players, and the deep connection between the North Cross and UVA football programs in the wake of a tragedy that killed three players earlier this month.

13 min

11 Episodes

Hometown Sports Extra is an examination of the importance of sports to our hometowns through the people who help us love them.

Creator

WDBJ7
Years Active

2022 - 2024
Episodes

11
Rating

Clean
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