BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 10 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Sarah Varnell's interest in equine medicine got a fast start out of the starting gate as a teenager.
Varnell shadowed a racetrack veterinarian on school breaks, and what followed most days was 13 hours on her feet, moving from stall to stall behind a woman who seemed to know exactly what each horse needed before it made a sound.
"I loved every second of it," Varnell said. "And I was like, maybe this is something I should do."
She did. Nearly two decades later, Varnell has joined the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine as the new Equine Field Services clinical instructor in the Department of Large Animal Clinic...