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NOVEMBER 5, 2020 1 WWW.WESTPOINT.EDU THE NOVEMBER 5, 2020 VOL. 77, NO. 43 OINTER IEW® DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY PSERVING THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY V OF WEST POINT ® Fall Sandhurst—A fight for a spot SEE PAGES 4-5 • • Thirty-nine cadet teams, including all 36 cadet companies, two brigade teams and a U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School team, competed in the nine-event 2020 Fall Sandhurst Competition Friday and Saturday at West Point. The teams were fi ghting to earn one of the 12 U.S. Corps of Cadets team spots to represent USMA during the 2021 Spring Sandhurst International Military Skills Competition at West Point. (Above) Members of Company D-2 lift a log in sync during the Team Challenge Event, which assessed the team’s ability to work together to complete the task in an unspecifi ed amount of time. (Left) Class of 2022 Cadet and Company F-4 member Minki Seo performs a deadlift during the Functional Fitness Event. Photos by Class of 2022 Cadet Ellington Ward (aboVe) and Class of 2021 Cadet Angeline Tritschler (Left) 2 NOVEMBER 5, 2020 NEWS & FEATURES POINTER VIEW Five cadet companies earn Fall Brigade Finals titles The Fall Brigade Finals took place Monday at West Point as company teams took titles in fl ag football, functional fi tness, soccer, team handball and volleyball. (Not pictured) Company B-1 earned the fl ag football title by defeating Company F-4, 16-14, in the championship game on Daly Field. (Above) The Company D-3 functional fi tness team defeated Company D-3 with a faster overall time. (Right) The F-3 Company took the brigade soccer title by defeating Company G-1, 5-2. (Below) Company I-4 defeated Company D-1 to win the team handball championship, 11-0. (Not pictured) Company A-2 won the volleyball title by defeating Company I-3 in three sets (15-7/8-15/15-13). All the awards were handed out by the Commandant of Cadets Brig. Gen. Curtis A. 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The Times Herald-Record is If a violation or re jec tion of this equal opportunity policy by an ad ver tis er is confi rmed, the publisher PV Managing Editor, 938-2015 [email protected] responsible for all commercial advertising. will refuse to print ad ver tis ing from that source until the violation has been corrected. [email protected] POINT POINTER VIEW IN FOCUS: LEADS DETROIT NOVEMBER 5, 2020 3 Cadets take part in first virtual LEADS event By Jorge Garcia Blake, a Detroit native, was another cadet it was to watch young students look up diverse backgrounds and find similarities PV Staff Writer who was exposed to West Point through the prospective colleges and universities, whether between them that allowed the small group LEADS program. it be West Point or joining ROTC post high talks to flow organically. She explained that For one who wishes to become an officer “When I was a high school student during school. the Army creates decrees and oaths that help in the Army, the Reserve Officer Training my sophomore year, I got to interact with “This event was for students to hone in Soldiers define leadership and what it means Corps (ROTC), the U.S. Military Academy or cadets and they really made a big impression on the skills that leadership develops prior to to live honorably. Much of what the students Officer Candidate School are the usual options on me, not necessarily because of the military them venturing to their chosen institution of talked about in relation to their idea of proper to consider. However, how does one become side of it, but just in the way that they carried learning,” Cooper said. “We talked about living leadership was similar to what she believed in. inspired to make that life-changing decision? themselves,” Blake said. “So, when I went honorably, being courageous and the different “Between the Army and civilian culture “The LEADS program was the only back my junior year, I was a lot more invested tasks leaders are faced with on a daily basis.” and cultures all over the world, we might see influence I had in joining West Point,” in the conference.” Cooper added creating a personal each other as different but in the end we all Class of 2021 Cadet Lawrence Shepherd On a related note, Shepherd, who applied connection with high school students who value the same things,” Chinn said. “We all said as he explained his role as the cadet- to West Point as a result of attending a LEADS look up to cadets is the key to inspiring the value things like loyalty and respect, which are in-charge of the event. During the event, 23 workshop in Detroit when he was in high positive choices they make during the event. key characteristics that makes us all similar to cadets interacted with Junior ROTC high school school, added how the event inspired him to Whether it’s creating effective leadership some extent.” students for the virtual Leadership, Ethics and become an officer. styles to properly navigate the mathematic The four cadets held unanimous beliefs on Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering “I knew about ROTC and I heard about and scientific realms of the event or simply the importance of the LEADS program and and Mathematics (LEADS) workshop on West Point, but I didn’t really know what becoming engrossed in the potential one can felt that the virtual experience enhanced their Friday. Out of the 23 cadets, 15 local Michigan (West Point) was until I took part in the event. gain from applying to West Point, it boils down leadership qualities with Shepherd expounding cadets took part in coordinating the event. Following that, it was the only thing that got to the specific knowledge cadets offer to the on what potential young upstarts need to be Cass Technical High School, Renaissance me interested in applying to West Point because high school students at the event. successful when applying to any institution High School and Wayne Memorial High School prior to the event, I had no interest in applying “It’s about what you can offer them with of learning, whether it’s West Point or ROTC. were among the 20-plus Detroit area schools to college at all,” Shepherd said. “Seeing the knowledge you gain as a cadet and it’s “The advice I would give is definitely and JROTC programs with the highest number (African American) leaders from West Point also about what I can learn from them to take ownership in your own development of students signed up to participate in the event. that looked like me was also a big part of the improve my ability to lead,” Cooper said. “The and that starts with you being aware of who Cadets helped students engage with reason I joined and it was the first time I was high school students really pushed me to be you are as a person. Self-awareness is a each other in a virtual environment in the engaged by that many representatives from vulnerable with them—to share my stories, key component,” Shepherd said. “It is also areas of leadership engagement, problem institutions of higher learning.” testimonies and the skills I learned at West important to understand where you need to be solving and making ethical decisions within Class of 2023 Cadet Alma Cooper, one Point in this new virtual environment. It was mentally to become an Army officer and then the fields of science, technology, engineering of the facilitators of the event, never got a great experience.” once you get a handle on those two points, you and mathematics (STEM), Class of 2022 Cadet a chance to experience LEADS in high For Class of 2022 Cadet Samantha Chinn, can figure out the path in-between so you can Hannah Blake said.