More on the Class of 2012:

• 33 are the first in their families to attend college
• One is a homecoming queen who drives a racecar
• One was a caddy at the U.S. Open
• One has been to the top of six fourteeners (mountains that have elevation
    of 14,000 feet or more)
• One wrote and edited a trilogy that is in the process of being published
• One claims to have memorized every pop song since his year of birth (1991)
• One is a triathlete
• One is a semi-professional kayaker
• One traveled to China to install water treatment systems
• One has nine siblings and lived in Alaska for 12 years
• One started a program that raised $1,500 in relief for Katrina victims
• One can pogo stick jump for 1,110 consecutive jumps (would have done
    more but got pushed off by a friend)
• One saved a peer from drowning during the Duke University Marine Lab
• One was the SC Beta Club vice president
• One was a three-time state champion in two different sports
• One is a Greek folk dancer
• One won a Battle of the Bands in Montgomery, Ala. and his band put out a CD
• One was cum laude on the National Latin Exam

Wofford College's Class of 2012, with 415 first-year students who begin
classes on Monday, Sept. 1, is the largest, most well-prepared incoming
class in the college's history.