Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 2018 | Page 15

STORY & VIDEO BY ERICA CORDER
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Alumni couple live life of service
in support of alma mater
When Damien and Krystal McCants entered
their wedding reception to "Enter Sandman,"
the other Hokies in the chapel knew what to
do: they just started jumping.
professionals living
and working in
Northern Virginia,
the pair are still
committed to
At the May 2008 reception, the newly
living in service to
married couple cut a cake embellished with a
the university they
sugary Virginia Tech athletic logo, drank from
call home by do-
embossed Virginia Tech champagne flutes,
nating and joining
and danced in a room filled with maroon and
advisory boards.
white decor.
“For me, Virginia
Their wedding was in many ways homage to
Tech is a huge part
the place where they met, fell in love, got en-
of who I am,” Krystal said. “It’s such a huge
gaged (specifically, in the gazebo by the Duck
part of my life that I can't just forget because,
Pond), and, they say, the place they became
you know, without Virginia Tech, obviously I
the people they are today.
wouldn’t have gotten, I don’t think, the same
Now, 15 years since their undergraduate
caliber of education.”
years at Virginia Tech, it’s a place they return
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to visit every year without fail. As young
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