Junior Kylie Hase persevered on the pitch, even when she wasn’t accepted Kylie Hase doesn’t know how to take it down a notch. Growing up in Orland Park, Illinois, she started playing soccer at 3 years old in a church league. Her mother tells Hase she fielded concerns from other moms because Hase was very […]
As a poor kid growing up around depression and alcoholism, Molly (Barger) Steinwald (MS S’04) sought solace outside. “We lived in New Hampshire, but I didn’t go skiing or anything,” she says. “I spent a lot of time observing small-scale, nearby nature, and I was always amazed by what you could see on the sidewalk.” […]
How Roger Follmer built a champion tennis program at WashU Coaching at a division iii school puts the focus on the student part of student-athlete. Washington University in St. Louis doesn’t have scholarship money available to recruit top-tier athletes. Coaching tennis adds another layer of complication. It’s mainly an individual sport, and it’s not uncommon […]
When he was a student at Purdue, football standout Chukky Okobi (LA’00) started using neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). For Okobi, the psychotherapy approach — which aims to take control of thoughts and behaviors — helped him gain a competitive advantage on and off the field. “I used NLP to maintain control of my mental and emotional […]
Former pilot keeps his cool as head referee of Super Bowl LIII When John Parry (T’88) took the field at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta February 3, he stepped onto a global stage at a moment in history when his profession needed his best. As if the pressure of serving as head referee for the […]
Ryan (CEM’96) and Sheri (M’96) Maibach are community builders in multiple senses of the phrase. Ryan is an actual fourth-generation builder. After college, he started work at Barton Malow, a family-owned construction firm founded in 1924 that now employs about 2,200 people and pulls in around $2.5 billion in annual revenue. He held half a […]
Koula Sophianou (LA’95, MA’97) lives a cosmopolitan life as the ambassador of Cyprus to the Kingdom of Spain. It’s the kind of life Sophianou dreamed of growing up in her island country, where early life was marked by tragedy: her father was killed during the Turkish army invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when Sophianou was […]
Anthony “Tony” Harris (ME’75, HDR E’13) has always loved math. But he didn’t take calculus or any advanced classes in related fields — they weren’t even available at his south-side-Chicago high school in the 1960s. That never stopped Harris from dreaming big. He thought he’d become an architect, but his drafting-class teacher advised him engineering […]
Ryan Cline’s resiliency, patience pay off in his senior year A lot of people might have given up. They might have transferred. They might have allowed their frustrations to get the best of them. They might have lost their patience. Not Ryan Cline. He knew his time would come. As a senior at Carmel High […]
Megan Stevens Montanti (LA’07) — known professionally as Megan Sara — has always felt a connection to the natural world. Interested in biology, she enrolled at Purdue in the College of Science; however, she soon realized her heart wasn’t in it. Montanti’s education prior to college had been very focused on the arts, and she […]
