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The tryout starts at 5:40 a.m. with a 1.5-mile sprint to the top level of Tiger Avenue Parking Structure. Then, Army ROTC members gunning for a spot in Missouri Cannon Crew run laps, and workout leaders select individuals for exercise sets. Those individuals do burpees, flutter kicks and two-minute wall sits before running back to Stankowski Field to do pullups.

“They smoke you and see who is willing to put forth the extra effort and go the extra mile,” sophomore member Christian Elliott said.

After every Missouri touchdown or field goal, the crew fires a deafening cannon, and four members run into the endzone and do one pushup for every Missouri point.