Our real Roanoke Redneck!

“The Roanoke Redneck” has a real sense of humor. You’d get that from watching his pitch for a mascot – but it’s even funnier if you know who he is.

Trent Thompson, the actor, is a recent and very accomplished graduate of Roanoke College. He’s actually from Roanoke, and despite the way he talks in the video, he is very academic. Trent graduated magna cum laude this spring and was honored with memberships in the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society as well as those for Alpha Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa.

Most surprising, however, is probably his major. The “redneck” earned his B.A. in theology! He was even honored as the senior scholar in theology at the college’s year-end Academic Awards Dinner. As the redneck would say, “yee-ha!”

Tags: academic, honor society, Mascot, redneck, theology