Cadet selected to travel with football team to highlight the colors at East Carolina game
The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets and the Virginia Tech football team continue their proud partnership to highlight the colors during the pre-game ceremony at every football game.
Three football players are selected, because of their performance in the last game or during practice, to carry the American flag, the state flag, and the team’s spirit flag as they lead the team onto the field. They carry the flags the length of the field and deliver them to cadets at the south end of the field.
The cadets performing this honor are also selected based on their performance during their training. The cadets render honor to the flags and then securely carry them off the field. At home games three freshman cadets are selected and one or two upper-class cadets travel with the team and receive the flags at away games.
Cadet 1st Sgt. Andrew George of Pittsfield, Mass., a junior majoring in political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences who is pursuing minors in leadership studies from the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Rice Center for Leader Development and statistics from the College of Science was selected to receive the flags at the East Carolina University game.
George is a cadet in the Army ROTC program and is a recipient of the R.B. Pamplin Family Emerging Leader Scholarship. He will travel and lodge with the team, as well as participate in all team meetings and meals.
George was selected to travel with the team after being named the top cadre member from Third Battalion for New Cadet Week training. Cadre are the group of upper class cadets who train the new cadets starting a week before classes begin and through the first six weeks of school.
George says he would like to recognize his fellow cadre staff in Lima Company for their outstanding efforts and to thank his friends and family for their support.
Future cadets will continue to be selected for this honor based on their performance in the cadet regiment. The program is part of the proud partnership the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets has with the Virginia Tech Athletic Department and the Virginia Tech football team.
