On Point: Thankful

This year the Army West Point Athletic Association has rebranded Feature Friday into a video and written feature series called On Point. The new design to the stories will help fans connect to the cadet-athletes better than ever before.

On Point highlights the tremendous personal stories our coaches and cadet-athletes have to share on a weekly basis. Each week throughout the year, a new feature story will be prominently highlighted on GoArmyWestPoint.com. The features will include visual pieces, as well as written stories by media outlets and the Army West Point athletic communications staff.

Thanksgiving is a time most people spend with family and loved ones, reflecting on what they're most grateful for. For someone like Bethany Hofmann of the Army West Point women's lacrosse team, family has a totally different meaning. After a life-altering trip this past summer what she is most thankful for shifted. At birth, Hofmann was given up by her biological mother from a small town in Romania, with the hopes of giving her a better life. At seven months old she was adopted and brought to the United States never knowing where she truly came from. Even without that knowledge, Hofmann's sense of family never wavered and finally came full circle after she made an eye-opening trip back to where it all began.

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