Like most student-athletes, the day starts earlier for Megan Ombres and Santos Flores.
Unlike most student-athletes, though, their day doesn’t start with athletics. It sometimes starts with military training.
Ombres, a senior from Leander, Texas, and Flores, a freshman from San Antonio, are on the Texas State track and field team as distance runners. In the fall, they run cross country for the Bobcats.
Year-round, they are members of the Texas State University Army ROTC.
Bobcat runners and Bobcat cadets, they are the only two current Texas State student-athletes in the ROTC program. They chose the uncommon route because they want to pursue a life of service.