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watching him play and seeing the relationships he built
with his teammates.”
Abell has found her own place on the softball field—a
sport she has played since the third grade. “My dad
encouraged me to try it, and I ended up loving it,” said
the Rustburg, Virginia, native. “It’s a very competitive
sport, and you make so many friendships from it. You
become this really big family, and I like that bond.”
She has played on her high school softball team,
as well as on traveling teams. “I’ve learned a lot about
leadership through softball,” she said. “And you learn
a lot about responsibility.”
Sports aren’t the only thing that runs in Abell’s
family. Her grandmother and both of her parents have
teaching backgrounds, and Abell wants to follow in
those footsteps. “I was always in my mom’s classroom
growing up, and I had some really good teachers who
have inspired me. I want to do that for someone else.”
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McKinley Worley
When McKinley Worley ’14 goes shopping, she picks
a bit of everything and puts it together to create her
own style. Her approach to life embraces that same
concept.
“I don’t follow a statistical pattern,” she said. “I love
being full of contradictions. When I’m shopping, I get
clothes in all sorts of different styles and from different
places and throw them together. People always tell me
they couldn’t have pulled that off.”
She sees her life as the same type of blank canvas.
“I don’t worry about fitting in a certain way,” Worley
said. “I am who I am, and I’m going to do what makes
me happy.”
At the same time, she’s happiest with schedule and
order. “I’m organized, and I like to do what needs to
be done.”
A free spirit, Worley is a vegetarian and loves to just
let go and dance. But when she wants to relax, she does
math problems. Trigonometry was one of her favorite
classes in high school. “If I’m stressed, I go home and do
a math problem,” she said. “It centers me and focuses
me.”
French culture fascinates her, and she spends her
free time playing for a band.
“I absolutely love to learn, and I want to try
everything,” said Worley, who is from Lynchburg,
Virginia. “I want to learn from different people and take
advantage of every opportunity. I want to know that I
made the best out of my college experience.”
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Trey Gaylor
Trey Gaylor’s ’14 first foray into science was second
grade. His teacher told students to catch an insect and
track its behavior and lifespan. His lightning bug only
lived two days, but Gaylor was hooked permanently.
“That was the first thing that got to me on how science
works,” he said.
Gaylor’s fascination with science developed into a
preference for medical biology and how the human body
works. “I really like how the body works and how cells
work with other cells,” he said. Originally from Bassett,
Virginia, Gaylor enjoys the dynamics and intricacies of
science. “I hate not being able to find an answer,” he
said. “I’m a hands-on person, and I like being able to
see how things work. You have to be creative and think
outside of the box to see what will happen if you do
this or that.”
He plans to study biology and hopes to one day work
in a diagnostic laboratory for a hospital. “I want to be
in a profession where I can do my day-to-day job, but
while I’m doing that, I can help people,” he said. “Even
though it may not seem like it to me when I’m doing a
test in the lab, I might be able to catch something that
nobody else did. I might be able to help diagnose that
person, and that diagnosis may end up saving a life.”
Gaylor’s need to help others stems from his family
and religious faith. “I
try to go through life
doing the right thing,”
he said. “I’m a friend to
everyone because it’s
the right thing to do. I
want to be in a situation
where I can help people
or do some small thing
that helps a lot of
people. That’s how I
was raised.”
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