We applaud Cadet Shelby Stevens on her journey from quiet high school student to impactful leader. “I had always been on the quiet side. I didn’t speak up for myself or what I was thinking. But here I chose the people I surrounded myself with and the leaders I looked up to really changed how I thought about myself. They gave me the confidence to speak up for myself and my ideas. I embraced the leadership side of Shelby Stevens instead of the girl that just followed the crowd.” By her senior year, the crowd was following her. Stevens, a member of the Corps’ Citizen-Leader Track, commanded the 80 cadets of Bravo Company during the fall semester. In part through her leadership during the first half of the academic year, last month Bravo Company was named the top cadet company in the corps this year, earning the coveted Beverly S. Parrish Jr. award, denoted by the gold-colored cord worn on Bravo cadet uniforms. Stevens spent her last semester in the corps in command of 1st Battalion’...