Military mentality: YSU sophomore appreciative of opportunity

In late July, when the YSU football team held its conditioning tests to open fall practice, Penguins defensive coordinator Rick Kravitz pulled sophomore linebacker Ethan Slark aside and asked, “Are you in shape?”

Slark, a member of the Air Force reserves based in Vienna, had just spent the last three months “on orders.” (He can’t say anything more, but let’s just say he wasn’t in Vienna and his location wasn’t cold.) While there, Slark would do 100-yard sprints and 3-mile runs in his boots and uniform.

So, yeah, he was in shape.

Read the story in Thursday’s Vindicator.