Football excitement wasn’t all fans had to look forward to during Saturday’s noon-time match-up between West Virginia University and East Carolina at Mountaineer Field.

That’s because at halftime, senior finance major from Glenville, W.Va., Andrea Ramezan, and Thomas Caranasos, senior biology and philosophy major from Gainesville, Fla.., were named this year’s Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer.

Andrea is the daughter of Dave and Janette Ramezan.

She is involved in numerous WVU activities including New Student Orientation, Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business Fraternity, Finance and Banking Club, Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honorary, the Business and Economics Success Team and Chimes Junior Honorary, among others.

Ramezan also volunteers in the community with Habitat for Humanity, the Salvations Army’s Adopt-a-Family, Trick or Treat for UNICEF , Crop Walk, Adopt-a-Street, Amateur Radio Relay League, Pioneer Amateur Radio Association and the American Red Cross.

Recognitions and awards to her credit include WVU Housing and Residence Life’s All-Star Resident Assistant, serving as Delta Sigma Pi Pledge Class president, Delta Sigma Pi vice president of pledge education and being selected as the WVU Alumni Scholar.

Throughout the last two years, she has served as a live-in resident assistant at WVU residence halls and implemented several community, academic and personal development activities in conjunction with Operation Jump-Start, a nationally recognized program to enhance the first-year residential experience of students.

She was an executive assistant at RAMco Technologies and RAMco Technologies On-Line where she worked in sales and customer service, among other duties.

Ramezan also worked as a teller at Morgantown’s One Valley Bank. Delta Sigma Pi is her sponsor.

Thomas Caranasos is the son of George and Constance Caranasos.

He is a member of the WVU varsity rifle team, vice president of the Student Athletic Advisory Council, and active in Alpha Epsilon Delta, Mortar Board Senior Honor Society and the Golden Key National Honor Society, among other organizations.

He also serves his community as a statewide shooting safety instructor, a Special Olympics volunteer and a volunteer Boy Scout instructor.

Caranasos has received numerous awards and honors including several marksmanship medals. He also competed in the world championship trials in 1997-98 and the Pan American Games in 1998-99. He placed third at the United States National Championships.

Additionally, he is a member of the Academic A-l American for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Athlete Honor Roll.

Naming of Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer is part of WVU ’s 53rd annual Mountaineer Week activities that began Nov. 10 with a craft fair and quilt show and continued through the week with a fiddler’s contest, storytelling and more.

Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer candidates, all WVU seniors, must be nominated by a student organization or deans/directors and complete an application and 600-word essay. A 10 -member review panel then interviews the candidates before choosing the finalists and winner.