It went by in the blink of an eye.
The members of the Class of 2024 have grown from babies to toddlers, and tweens to teens, their parents spending the last 20-plus years carefully raising them and setting them on the launchpad to adulthood.
Soon they will be University of Virginia graduates.
In late April, University Communications’ social media team put out a call for then-and-now combinations of baby Hoo pictures and graduation snaps. Reese Hertel was one of dozens to answer the call.
A Charlottesville local, he has been coming to UVA football and basketball games for as long as he can remember. His father chairs the University’s kinesiology department and sometimes brought his children behind the scenes at games.
Hertel will never forget Nov. 13, 2010, when the Cavalier football team faced off against the University of Maryland Terrapins.