President Donald Trump introduced a number of West Level graduates onstage with him at totally different factors throughout his graduation speech, highlighting their achievements, together with a cadet who beat the document for a grueling 18.5-mile march and the quarterback of the US Military soccer staff.
“This class excelled not solely mentally however bodily. Final January, when greater than 1,000 cadets volunteered for an 18.5-mile march on a freezing winter evening, Cadet Chris Verdugo accomplished the duty in 2 hours and half-hour flat, smashing the worldwide document for the competitors by 13 minutes,” Trump mentioned.
“The place is he?” the president requested, inviting Verdugo to hitch him because the viewers roared.
The cadet shook arms with Trump, smiling and laughing, and stepped as much as the rostrum at Trump’s urging. “It’s been a protracted 5 years, however I couldn’t have performed it with none of those guys,” Verdugo mentioned.
Trump additionally introduced up Bryson Each day, the Black Knights’ quarterback.
“This yr, the Black Knights purchased your method into the highest 20 nationally and racked up your longest successful streak since 1949 with the assistance of graduating quarterback Cadet Bryson Each day, or as you name him, Captain America,” Trump mentioned. “We gotta get him up right here proper? C’mon Bryson.”
Each day mentioned, “Go Military soccer” and shook Trump’s hand, giving the president a salute.
Trump gave many different shoutouts in the course of the deal with, together with to the Rhodes Students and the boys’s lacrosse staff. Trump additionally known as out the primary two girls in West Level historical past to finish divers’ faculty, asking them to face.
