This year’s Three-Legged Stool Award recipient is Cadet Courtney Novotny ’25, water polo team captain and swimming and diving team member. Pictured from left to right are Jamaal Walton ’07, director of intercollegiate athletics; Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85, VMI superintendent; Courtney Novotny ’25, 2024-25 Three-Legged Stool Award recipient; and Danny Thornton ’78, Keydet Club president.—VMI Alumni Agencies photo.
Over 460 individuals attended the 2024 Keydet Club Scholarship Banquet in Marshall Hall Nov. 3, 2024, in celebration of alumni, family, and friends who support scholarship aid for VMI’s cadet-athletes. Guests attending the annual scholarship banquet included cadet-athletes, donors, special guests, and fund representatives.
This year, approximately 170 donors and their guests joined 292 cadet-athletes for a meal; remarks from Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins ’85, superintendent; and the presentation of the Three-Legged Stool Award. Every year, one cadet-athlete is presented with the prestigious Three-Legged Stool Award, named by Giles Miller, Class of 1924, in reference to the Institute’s policy of educating the “whole person” through the balance of athletics, leadership development, and academics.
Cadet Courtney Novotny ’25 is the 2024–25 recipient Three-Legged Stool recipient. Novotny, a biology major, serves as the water polo team captain and as a swimming and diving team member. In water polo, Novotny has been the leading scorer on the team for the past two seasons, averaging 3.2 goals per game, and she ranks fourth in conference goals scored, fifth in overall points, and third in goal-per-game percentage. Novotny is a leader in and out of the pool, leading seven of the nine members of her team to become Academic All-Americans like herself. She is also a Coast Guard detachment senior chief. In academics, the Reading, Pennsylvania, native maintains a 3.86 GPA and has been named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic Team each year. She is a Peay Scholar, Tri-Beta Biology Honor Society member, and a Summer Undergraduate Research Program participant.
Over the past 5 consecutive years, the Keydet Club has raised more than $7 million in scholarship funds for VMI’s talented cadet-athletes like Novotny.
“This event is a reminder of the power of philanthropy,” said Andrew Deal ’12, Keydet Club chief operating officer and Alumni Agencies chief development officer. “To have the opportunity to bring together our scholarship benefactors and our scholarship cadet-athletes is rewarding and illustrates the impact of the Keydet Club. I am thankful for the generosity of our scholarship supporters and for the dedication and commitment shown by our cadet-athletes.”
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