﻿{"id":330300,"date":"2018-09-24T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=330300"},"modified":"2018-09-24T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:19:23","slug":"hannah-jirsa-gives-in-state-verbal-to-virginia-tech-hokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/hannah-jirsa-gives-in-state-verbal-to-virginia-tech-hokies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Jirsa Gives In-State Verbal to Virginia Tech Hokies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW COMMIT:\u00a0<\/strong>Virginia Tech is forming an incredibly strong recruiting class for the fall of 2019\u00a0and has just received another verbal commitment from\u00a0<strong>Hannah Jirsa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Travis will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/national-junior-teamer-brooke-travis-lends-verbal-to-hokies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brooke Travis<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fhsaa-1a-state-champion-hannah-virgin-gives-verbal-to-hokies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hannah Virgin<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/junior-morgan-miller-gives-virginia-tech-first-verbal-commit-to-class-of-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Miller<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/virginia-tech-hokies-gain-verbal-commit-from-nchsaa-finalist-ashley-worden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashley Worden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shelby-raber-will-stay-in-state-and-swim-for-the-virginia-tech-hokies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shelby Raber<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/virginia-tech-picks-up-two-verbals-from-twins-rose-and-aj-pouch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose Pouch<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>as members of the Hokie class of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Already a native of Blacksburg, Jirsa does her club swimming with H2okie Aquatics and concluded a successful long course season with a best time in every event she swam at the Virginia Senior LCM Championships. 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