FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE NO. 79-09
CADETS COMING HOME TO IOWA FOR ARMY-IOWA STATE GAME – Sept. 21, 2009
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Cadets Ryan N. Bell, Stephaney A. Parks and Lauren E. Lybbert will be returning to their home state of Iowa this weekend for Saturday’s 7 p.m. Army-Iowa State football game at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa.
Bell, 21, of Eagle Grove, Eagle Grove High School, is a senior and a Military History major, who plans on branching Infantry and hopes to be stationed at either Fort Campbell or Fort Bragg.
He was a two-year member of the champion Army Team Handball Club.
Parks, 20, of Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant Community High School, is a junior and a Systems Engineering major. She has been a member of the Cadet Spirit Band for two years.
Lybbert, 19, of Davenport, Davenport Assumption High School, is a sophomore and a Leadership major who is a member of the Army women’s basketball team.
Prior to attending the game the cadets will be attending the West Point Admissions/Leader Brief in the Scheman Buildings’s Benton Auditorium on the Iowa State campus from 1 to 5 p.m., where they will get a chance to speak with prospective cadet candidates from the area.About West Point
Ranked the “Top College in the Country” by Forbes and “Top Public Liberal Arts College” by
US News & World Report, the U.S. Military Academy is a four-year co-educational federal undergraduate liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City. The world's preeminent leader development institution, it was founded in 1802 as America's first college of engineering. Its mission remains constant—to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army. For more information, go to www.westpoint.edu.
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