Senior Circuit...Weatherly MeadorsIn this feature, students have given several reasons as to why they chose to attend Wofford. There are two more to add to the list…pizza boxes and the hill at Gibbs Stadium.
“This may sound a little silly, but while I was growing up, Wofford for me was like Clemson and USC are for most other people,” says senior Weatherly Meadors. “My dad played football here and we came up every year for as long as I can remember to watch the homecoming football game and a few others.
“I loved coming up and sliding down the hill on pizza boxes and always thought that one day I would come here so I could come to all the games and slide down the hill whenever I wanted. When it came time to pick a school, it turned out that Wofford is strong in what I want to do, so everything worked out perfectly! Except, of course, I don't slide down the hill very often, unless it's snowing!!”
Meadors has been involved in Beta Beta Beta, Tri-Delta, intramural sports, ultimate Frisbee, and she helped start a wakeboard and waterski team. She also played guitar in the FCA band for a little while and worked as an assistant in the biology office her junior and senior years.
Her major is biology with a minor in religion.
“It has been biology from the beginning,” she says. “I wanted to double major with history, but I was more interested in the ancient history and archaeology, but I couldn’t find enough of those classes so that idea was short lived.”
Her memories, on the other hand, will not be. Meadors says a trip Down Under, especially, will stick with her forever.
“There are so many good memories from the past four years it's hard to pick just one!” she says. “There is one experience that Wofford allowed me to have that jumps to mind, though.
“This past fall I studied abroad in Melbourne, Australia with Audra Riddle. We spent a lot of time traveling the country to see everything we could see, including a 10-day half trip through the Outback. We saw wildlife and terrain that is vastly different from anything I've ever experienced in the United States, and we became good at taking things as they come. An example would be what to do when you wake up with a dingo gnawing on your friend’s foot!”
That Outback experience seems to have rubbed off on her, at least judging by her immediate post-graduation plans.
“I have so many things I want to do, it's hard to decide!” she says. “Over the summer I plan to be involved with some form of outdoors and environmental education, hopefully leading kayak tours around Charleston.
“Then, next spring, graduate school for environmental science and marine biology, specializing in toxicology and ecology to try and look at how climate change and human interference affects marine ecosystems. Basically I just want to find a problem relating to this and try to fix it!”