24 Facts About Virginia State

1. West Virginia State: Continues the search for their first conference win at TCU on Tuesday.

2. Virginia State is off to the best start in program history and is the only remaining undefeated team in NCAA Division I women's basketball.

3. West Virginia State was a major seat of union organization in the US, and the state's miners' strikes drew national attention.

4. West Virginia State was important on the other side of the industrialization issue as well.

5. Virginia State would have the highest slave population in the country.

6. Virginia State struggled until colonists began cultivating tobacco—the growth of cash crops around the Chesapeake Bay would define much of America's history, creating economic divides between the North and South and prompting the introduction of African labor to the colonies in 1619.

7. Virginia State has had a major impact on the course of US history.

8. Virginia State has many professional caliber golf courses including the Greg Norman course at Lansdowne Resort and Kingsmill Resort, home of the Kingsmill Championship, an LPGA Tour tournament.

9. Up until the 1970s, Virginia State was a racially divided one-party state dominated by the Byrd Organization.

10. Virginia State has Amtrak passenger rail service along several corridors, and Virginia Railway Express maintains two commuter lines into Washington, DC from Fredericksburg and Manassas.

11. Virginia State has a mixed health record, and is ranked as the 26th overall healthiest state according to the 2013 United Health Foundation's Health Rankings.

12. Virginia State has launched many award-winning traditional musical artists and internationally successful popular music acts, as well as Hollywood actors.

13. Virginia State is the largest producer of seafood on the East Coast, with scallops, oysters, blue crabs, and clams as the largest seafood harvests by value, and France, Canada, and Hong Kong as the top export destinations.

14. Tourism in Virginia State supported an estimated 210,000 jobs and generated $21.2 billion in 2012.

15. Virginia State has the highest average and peak Internet speeds in the United States, with the third-highest worldwide.

16. Virginia State has the highest defense spending of any state per capita, providing the Commonwealth with around 900,000 jobs.

17. Virginia State does not have any further political subdivisions, such as villages or townships.

18. Virginia State was a focal point in conflicts from the French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the Civil War, to the Cold War and the War on Terrorism.

19. Virginia State has 30 National Park Service units, such as Great Falls Park and the Appalachian Trail, and one national park, the Shenandoah National Park.

20. Virginia State is home to the pileated woodpecker as well as the red-bellied woodpecker.

21. Climate of Virginia State is humid subtropical and becomes increasingly warmer and more humid farther south and east.

22. Virginia State was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution.

23. West Virginia State has seven scholarships remaining in this year's signing class.

24. Virginia State earned his undergraduate degree from Howard University in civil engineering and a Master of Science in civil engineering from Northwestern University.