Good morning! The World Athletics Championships, the world’s premier track and field competition, will feature a familiar face in Marco Arop. Racing in the 800-meter event, Arop will take on the world’s best in Budapest later this year representing Team Canada.

What else did we throw into the Brew today?

🏈 Listen and Learning
⚽️ Meet the Team
🐶 And much, much more!

🎥 HAIL STATE PLUS

Taking the Pitch. Bulldog athletics are up and running again in preparation of the 2023-24 season, and State soccer is getting an early jump at it. Get an inside look at the team’s first practice of the season ahead of their exhibition opener against Kennesaw State next week.

🎥 All-Access: Hail State Soccer’s First Practice

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

🔼 Listen and Learning. There are a lot of characteristics that you could use to describe Coach Arnett: tough, intense, blue-collar, but what many might not notice is how he is taking his opportunity as head coach to learn as much as he can.

🗣️ “Anyone that I can talk to and get information or an opinion from on how to be successful, I’m going to listen because there isn’t anyone that has it all figured out.” - Coach Arnett

📚 Read more about how Head Coach Zach Arnett is taking the preseason to soak in all the information and listen to those around him.

🔼 Meet the Team. As you now know, soccer season is in the very near future. Even the fans have to get prepared for the season, and with that comes learning about the team. Today, get familiar with a couple of State’s goalkeepers that will have the opportunity to suit up this season.

🧤 0 — Katelyn Carroll

🧤 00 — Taylor Thames

🔼 Hometown Hero. Former Bulldog Jake Mangum knows what it means to play for Mississippi State. Now on to professional baseball, Mangum outlines why he chose to play for the Bulldogs, and why the state of Mississippi means so much to him.

🔼 Watch Out. The star-studded returner, Tulu Griffin, has been named to the 2023 Paul Hornung Award watchlist, an award that goes to the most versatile player in college football.

Last season, Griffin was named an All-American kick returner by Pro Football Focus after accumulating 613 kickoff return yards with one return touchdown. The senior returns as one of State’s most explosive players on the team, and will look to add to his 1,333 career return yards in 2023.

🔼 Gridiron Leader. Quarterback Will Rogers has been named to one of the most impactful watchlists in all of college football. It was announced that he was named to the Wuerffel Trophy, an award that goes to the FBS player that best combines exemplary community service with leadership achievement both on and off the field.

🤔 BULLDOG TRIVIA

Overseas Scorer. The Bulldogs have wrapped up their matchups over in Portugal, and came away with a perfect 3-0 record, but do you know who the highest scorer of the three-game stretch was?

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

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🐶 DAWG DAILY

Today’s Dawg Daily: Neil has some interesting notes about football training camp schedule. Also, we hear from both Tolu Smith and James Miller all the way from Portugal about their perfect 3-0 run.

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Josh Hubbard!

Hubbard racked up 49 points in just three games. He scored 19 points in the second game of the trip that saw the team rack up triple-digits once all was said and done.

Have a great weekend, y'all.