Sun May 30 2021 | Matt Hamilton | College
COURTESY OF NCAA PHOTOS
Patrice Aitken was hard to miss before, during and after Saturday’s NCAA semifinal game between Virginia and Maryland.
You just had to follow the flag.
She walked the rain-soaked concourse of Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. before watching her son, Dox, and the Virginia Cavaliers fight for a spot in the national championship game, waving the blue flag with a team’s “V” logo encrusted in white and orange.
Security at Rentschler wouldn’t allow her to bring the traditional stick on which the flag was attached something she had done since 2019 so she had to improvise.