ETTRICK, Virginia -- With the Virginia State University football and women's volleyball teams heading to Winston-Salem, N.C., for their CIAA championship match-ups against Winston-Salem State Saturday, the intuition held a press conference Wednesday afternoon for the occasion.VSU President Keith T. Miller was in attendance to give his congratulations and express admiration for both the teams' athletic achievements and academic accomplishments.
"This is a great story. Not only because the sports success, but it's always great when student athletes have athletic success and success in the classrooms," he said.
The Trojan football team, led by first year coach Latrell Scott, look to bring home the school's first CIAA championship trophy since it's back-to-back titles in '95-'96.
"We hope to get this win and bring the title back to Petersburg," said Scott at the Wednesday media presser.
Scott knows that lifting the crown from the current back-to-back CIAA champion's heads won't be easy.
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