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Hometown Hero: Staff Sergeant Kolleen Kitzinger

Philadelphia Union are pleased to announce that the hometown hero for Wednesday night's match against FC Cincinnati is Staff Sergeant Kolleen Kitzinger.

Kitzinger is a lifelong resident of Delaware County and a 2001 graduate of Archbishop Prendergast High School. In 2006, she graduated from Neumann University with a degree in Criminal Justice and four years later enlisted as a motor transport operator in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.

Over the past three years, Staff Sergeant Kitzinger served as an honor guardsman with the Pennsylvania Military Funeral Honors Program rendering over 400 last honors to our Fallen Veterans.