Collegiate Times

Seth Greenberg often stresses a necessity for the Virginia Tech student body to take ownership in the basketball program. The costumes featured in this video could qualify as ownership.

“Hokie Leonidas”, or Phillip Zellner, or — even better — Leonidas Zellner, placed first in the Roanoke Times’ Ultimate Hokie Fan contest this past football season. Orange Mann (Ryan Watson would be his Bruce Wayne) experienced a sensational first year last spring. They provide two of the more interesting sights in a new outfit of Hokie spirit created by Hokies on Fire, the Cassell Guard Generals.

This batallion receives front-row tickets for each home basketball game and carry responsibility for making things rowdy, in a good way for Tech and a bad way for opponents. Tastefully done, though.

At home this season, the Tech men's and women's basketball teams finished 15-1 and 12-5, respectively.

The generals inducted into the Cassell Guard at the start of the 2009-2010 Virginia Tech basketball season are as follows:

Mark Potter of Woodbridge, Va., a junior majoring in Industrial and systems engineering in the College of Engineering;

Alexis Pierson of Gainesville, Va., a freshman majoring in architecture in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies;

Dane Berthelsen of Clifton, Va., a junior majoring in economics in the Pamplin College of Business;

Kelly Shafer of Williamsburg, Va., a freshman majoring in education and social change in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences;

Clint Stevenson of Camden, S.C., a senior majoring in communications in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences;

Phillip Zellner of Hampton, Va., a junior majoring in electrical engineering in the College of Engineering;

Colleen Caprio of North Caldwell, N.J., a freshman majoring in communications in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences;

Bradley de Wet of Richmond, Va., and a senior majoring in communications in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences;

Steven Schamback of Glade Spring, Va.,a sophomore majoring in history in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences;

Jake Carter of Gate City, Va., a sophomore majoring in wildlife science in the College of Natural Resources;

Rachel Fiske of Mechanicsville, Md., a sophomore majoring in biological sciences in the College of Science;

Ryan Watson of Virginia Beach, Va., a junior majoring in building construction in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies;

Dean Stevenson of Manassas, Va., a senior majoring in mathematics in the College of Science;

Greg Toohey of North Potomac, Md., a sophomore majoring in civil engineering in the College of Engineering; and

Tiffany Sykes of Trenton, N.J.,a freshmen majoring in chemistry in the College of Science.