Tech runner blogs about trip to Vietnam

Asreported a couple of weeks ago, 11 Virginia Tech student-athletes are or will be participating thissummer in Coach for College, a global initiative to promote higher educationfounded by former Duke tennis player Parker Goyer. The Tech contingent is among62 ACC student-athletes who have headed or will be heading to Vietnam to teachchildren basketball, soccer, volleyball and tennis. More importantly, thecurriculum also includes health, physics, morality and English.

Those participating for Tech include Christina Patten(lacrosse), Julie Wolfinger (lacrosse), Ryan Rotanz (lacrosse), Colleen Thom(women’s cross country), Jessica Trapeni (women’s cross country), Drew Dillon(women’s cross country), Aunye Boone (women’s track), Devin Cornwall (men’strack), Keith Ricks (men’s track), Morgan Allen (women’s swimming) and KaleighGomes (women’s swimming).

Thom, a rising sophomore from Yorktown, Va., went to Vietnamas part of a group that went in early June. While there, she created a blog andposted her thoughts and pictures from throughout her time there. To read moreabout the trip, please check out this site.