Keeping It In The Family

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

When sophomore quarterback Andrew Harvey, 19, suits up with NC State’s football team, he has two generations behind him. His dad is Terry Harvey ’97, the two-sport Wolfpack athlete — a pitcher and quarterback — from the 1990s. And then there’s his maternal grandfather, Vance Cockerham ’64, a football center from the 1960s. “I’ve had NC State in my blood ever since I was a little kid,” says Andrew Harvey, who started attending Wolfpack football practices with his dad as a child.

Andrew Harvey played nearly every sport growing up; his first love was golf. He didn’t develop an affinity for football until his teen years and honed his skills at Raleigh’s Cardinal Gibbons High School. “It’s been fun watching him develop,” says Cockerham, 72, of Charlotte, N.C. “He’s had great tutoring from his dad.”

Andrew, who plans to major in business, didn’t get any playing time during the 2020 season, but just running out of the tunnel into Carter-Finley Stadium with the team gave him goosebumps. “It’s team over self, and I’m going to do whatever it takes to help our team win,” he says.

Terry Harvey, 49, is thrilled to see his son doing what he loves. “Life is about choices and decisions and he’s made a lot of good ones,” he says. “We’ll keep our fingers crossed, as parents, that he . . . continues to put himself in a position to be successful. And if that’s on the field, great.”