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After a productive summer school, defensive end recruit Mike Gee is on track to graduate December from Nassau Community College (Long Island, N.Y.) in December of 2007. The 6-1, 245-pound Gee, who signed with Virginia Tech in February of 2006, is now focused on the upcoming season.

Gee has not seen live game action since the Governor’s Bowl in the spring of 2006. It was then that he suffered a fractured foot, forcing him to red-shirt at Garden City Community College in Kansas last fall. He transferred to Nassau in January of this year.

“We started camp [yesterday],” said Gee, who did participate in spring practice at Nassau. The first game is on August 31st. “I felt pretty good. I was in better shape than I thought I was going to be in. I have been running all summer, so I prepared myself.”

Gee is not only anxious to show that he is healthy, but also to show that he still has the ability that earned him double-digit Division 1A scholarship offers out of high school. Though Virginia Tech has yet to come in with a full scholarship offer (at least Gee isn’t sure if he has one), the Tech coaches have been in close contact.

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