An active volunteer, honor student, and varsity athlete from Fort Lee, Va., 17-year-old Nicole Daly, is the Army's 2013 Military Child of the Year.
Growing up in a military family, Daly (the daughter of Ed '87 and Cathy '91 Daly) has moved nine times and attended three high schools. Despite her busy life, she still finds time to volunteer for military-related activities and maintains a 4.7 grade point average.
Daly received the award last week from Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Ray Odierno '76.
"The thing that impresses me the most about Nicole is she's taken a difficult situation -- many deployments by her dad -- to use that as an inspiration for her to help others," said Odierno at Operation Homefront's Military Child of the Year award ceremony.
"By doing that, she's become an inspiration to me," he said.
Daly has earned varsity letters in cross country and track and runs half-marathons with her father, the Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the Ordnance Center and School at Fort Lee, Va. Her mother is a former Quartermaster Officer.
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