Good morning! As you may have seen yesterday, the Bulldogs are regional hosts for this year’s NCAA Men’s Tennis Tournament. Tickets are on sale now for May 5th and 6th, so go now to secure your spot to watch the Bulldogs go for a title.

What else did we toss into the Brew today?

🥎 Let Her Cook
🎓 Academic Success
🐶 And much, much more!

🎥 HAIL STATE PLUS

Teeing Off. In this edition of All Access, we go behind the scenes of the MSU soccer’s annual tradition: soccer golf. The crew follows along with sophomore Riley Thompson and the rest of the team’s competitively fun afternoon out on the course.

This episode, and tons more like it, are available now to our HailState+ members.

With HailState+ you get to watch wherever you want to watch. Web, mobile, and (later this year) all major OTT streaming apps like AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, and Android. We got it all.

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Let Her Cook. We’ll have whatever Paige is having, because she’s been on a roll as of late. Bulldogs’ slugger Paige Cook earned SEC Player of the Week honors after a stellar performance this past weekend, which included a career milestone.

Cook launched three home runs against Kentucky marking her first-ever 10-homer season and gave her 100 career RBIs as well. She also moved up to ninth in the all-time home run rankings with 22 in her career.

The Rounding Third Podcast, part of the HailState+ Podcast Network, had the award winner on the show with associate head coach Tyler Bratton and grad-student coach Mia Davidson-Smith. They discussed Paige’s recent move to the outfield and the mentality that has led to her, and the rest of the Bulldogs’, recent success.

🔼 Job Not Finished. MSU’s own Emmanouela Antonaki is headed to the NCAA Singles Championship this year after receiving an at-large bid. Antonaki is headed to her fourth straight NCAA tournament and becomes the only women’s tennis player to ever accomplish that feat.

This season, she received an All-SEC second team selection after going 19-14 in singles play. Antonaki also achieved a career milestone, becoming the program’s all-time leader in singles wins (98) and combined wins (179). She’s certainly made her mark on MSU’s campus, and will be the one future Bulldogs chase after.

The 54th ranked singles player in the nation begins play at the UTSA National Campus in Orlando later this month, so stay tuned for more from Antonaki soon.

🔼 Academic Success. Our athletes put the ‘student’ in student-athlete. Each year, programs must achieve higher than a 930 Academic Progress Rate (APR) in order to participate in postseason events. This season, the Bulldogs’ 16 programs achieved an average rate of 989.4, which is six points above the national average, and surpassed the benchmark by at least 41 points.

Twelve of the programs exceeded their sports’ national average, and six teams tied or set records for their APR including football, baseball, soccer, women’s tennis, and both men’s and women’s track and field. MSU strives to perform well on and off the field, and our Bulldogs showed out this year.

🔼 The Story Of A Special Glove. Nate Dohm has been one of MSU baseball’s best on the mound, but it hasn’t been without some personal loss along the way.

Dohm, who lost his grandfather in early 2020, has found a way to memorialize him in each and every outing. “I really like the opportunity it presents. It gives me a great chance to explain why that means so much to me,” said Dohm about his unique style.

Read all about Dohm, his glove, and his grandfather’s story, are raising awareness on and off the field.

🤔 BULLDOG TRIVIA

Perfect Score. As you now know, the Bulldogs are crushing it in the classroom with all programs achieving high marks in the Academic Progress Rate. There was lots of improvement in many programs, including a couple reaching perfection.

Our question today — do you know what is considered a perfect score according to the APR?

Think you know the answer? Scroll on down to the bottom to find out.

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 1,000!

Six sports this year achieved a single-year APR score of 1,000 including women’s golf, men’s golf, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, soccer, and volleyball. It literally cannot get better than that!

Have a great Wednesday, y'all.