Annika Rowland Teegan Van Gunst
By: TONY REHAGEN | Categories: Sports
Teams facing off against the Yellow Jackets women’s volleyball team between 2013 and 2016 might have thought they were seeing their doom in double-vision. But it was just the Van Gunst twins dominating their side of the net. Over their four-year careers at Tech, middle blocker Annika Van Gunst Rowland and outside hitter Teegan Van Gunst each compiled more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs on the O’Keefe gym hardwood. Teegan was all-ACC first-team twice and played for Team USA at the 2017 University Games in Taipei; Annika made the ACC academic honor roll four times. Both received mechanical engineering degrees. And then they decided to hit the beach. After a year playing collegiate beach volleyball across town at Georgia State, where they both earned their MBAs, they took to the sand full-time as part of the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) Tour. It was their first season as pro athletes. But after the summer ended, it was back to work for the sisters, so they can save up enough to hit the tour again next year (AVP teams generally pay their own way). Since their father and two brothers all have engineering degrees too, they’ve joked that with their newfound business acumen, they just might have to start a family business.
