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Student Activities Coordinator, Liesl Davenport (right), congratulates
Tyler Norcross (left), for winning Northwest’s
own version of NBC’s hit show “The Biggest Loser” at the
finale held April 24. Photo by Justin Ford
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Campus gets fit with competition
About half of the original 115
students and 21 faculty remained
in Northwest’s own version of
NBC’s hit show “The Biggest Loser”
at the finale held at the newly renovated
McLendon Student Fitness
Center on April 24.
“This is the culmination of about
10 weeks of training. The participants
received journals and nutrition
guidance when they started,
and everyone that is going to weigh
in today has been to at least one
workout per week, and some to all
of them,” said Liesl Davenport, program
sponsor and Student
Activities coordinator.
Northwest’s Biggest Loser competition
is part of the Healthy
Northwest campaign to help the
community establish a healthier
lifestyle by promoting better nutrition
and fitness. Its goal is to help
students, faculty and staff find
healthy resources and to help make better
choices to reach their plans for smarter living.
Tyler Norcross, a sophomore psychology
major of Coldwater, was the overall winner in
the competition, with a 3.2 percent body fat
loss and 30-pound weight loss. He won a
one-year gym membership to ATC Fitness,
$100 Nike.com gift certificate and a
“Winners” hoodie. He attributes his success
to hard cardio training and cutting out sodas
and snacking. “I joined because I wanted to
lose weight, to be honest,” said Norcross. “I’d
been trying to lose for a while, and I couldn’t
stick with it. I don’t think exercising alone was
very fun. I actually joined this thinking if other
people were doing it, I could do it too, and the
only thing I had to lose was body fat and
weight. I was very surprised that I won. I didn’t
know how much I was going to lose.”
Davenport plans to continue with the
Biggest Loser next year and hopes for even
greater success in overall participation and
results. —Sarah Sapp
The Northwest Foundation Board of Directors celebrated their recent awarding of scholarships at their May 15 meeting. For the 2012-13 academic
year, the Foundation will award 416 scholarships for a total of $312,000. Foundation Board members pictured are (first row, l-r) Charles Veasey
of Marks, Director of Communications, Sarah Sapp, Elizabeth Lewis of Coldwater, Gale Cushman of Senatobia, Associate Vice President of
Development, Sybil Canon, Roberta Mayfield of Senatobia, Elizabeth McCullouch of Oxford, Pat Hickey of Charleston, Foundation Administrative
Assistant, Carla Townsend, Alumni Affairs Director, Dolores Wooten, (second row, l-r) Northwest President, Dr. Gary Lee Spears, Harold Nichols of
Olive Branch, James Dunn of Tunica, Doug Davis of Hernando, Barry Bridgforth of Olive Branch, Dr. Joe Gardner of Batesville, Foundation Board
President, Dr. Robert Smith of Hernando, Dr. James Smith of Enid, Mack Young of Marks, Gary Kornegay of Batesville, (third row, l-r) Don Clanton
of Senatobia, Drew DePriest of Olive Branch, Kevin Doddridge of Olive Branch, Gerald Chatham of Hernando, Alvan Kelly of Hernando, and Gary
Anderson of Jackson. Not pictured are Milton Kuykendall and Bill Austin, both of Hernando, Larry Baker of Senatobia, Mike Boren of Tunica, Curtis
Greer of Holly Springs, Michael Herrington of Olive Branch, Perrin Hunter of Eads, Tenn., Jimmy McClure of Sardis, Tommy Reynolds of Charleston
and Tommy Woods of Byhalia. Photo by Justin Ford