🔥 (IT'S TIME) Football week one is upon us

Welcome to Anchor Impact, a newsletter fueled by Student-Athlete NIL (SANIL) for Vanderbilt University’s collective Anchor Impact.

In today’s content ⚓
- Track star heads to Worlds 🌍
- Know before you go: Hokies edition 🏈
+ so much more 💪

🏃‍♀️ Donelson set to compete at Worlds

🏀 Vandy alum signs with Milwaukee Bucks

👋 WELCOME TO NASHVILLE

Men’s Basketball announces the addition of Kenneth Mangrum as the program’s assistant coach. Mangrum comes from serving as the associate head coach at New Mexico State last season (READ MORE).

⚓ WEEK 1 COACH LEA PRESS CONFERENCE

Get ready for Vandy United Day as Football hosts Virginia Tech in the opening game of its 2024 campaign this Saturday.

• “Our team is ready to compete” (1:08)

• “I believe in the changes we’ve made. I’ve seen and felt the progress. I know that in time it will deliver us the results we want.” (2:35)

• New defensive line on depth chart (7:34)

• Impetus behind naming QB Diego Pavia (10:46)

• “We’re redesigning and reimagining what it means to run a competitive Football program in an NIL and transfer portal era” (20:23)

🔴 QUICK-HITTERS: VIRGINIA TECH

We’re addicted to the Phil Steele previews. As such, we’ll be pulling a lot out of it, including Winsipedia.

Scouting the Hokies:

• VT is on a five-game win streak heading into the matchup

• The Hokies have appeared in 35 Bowl Games, compared to Vandy’s nine

• Tech holds a 34-10-0 record in the Sun Belt conference and a 31-56-5 record in the SEC

• QB Kyron Drones is set to begin his first season as a starter with VT after setting a program record for passing attempts without an interception last season

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Nothing in this section. We’ll see you back here on Friday. 👋