Senior Salute – Keara Wiley

Throughout the spring semester we’re celebrating our senior student-athletes with a Senior Salute collection. Today’s featured senior is swimming and diving’s Keara Wiley. Wiley is a biology main. 

Q: Why did you select to attend The College of Wooster? 

A: I used to be recruited by Coach Rob Harrington. Wooster turned my best choice after I took a tour of campus and realized extra concerning the biology program. 

Q: What does being a Fighting Scot student-athlete imply to you? 

A: I get to be a part of one thing that’s larger than simply me. I’ll proceed to be linked to these who got here earlier than and can come after me by the Fighting Scot title. 

Q: What are a few of your favourite recollections as a scholar at The College of Wooster?  

A: In athletics, my favourite reminiscence was coming again to swimming my junior yr, incomes private bests, and being all-conference. Another favourite reminiscence of mine is the Culture Show this yr. Maybe it is as a result of it was my final Culture Show, however this one simply felt so unbelievable. I had so many family and friends within the viewers and my groups had been so excited to carry out. 

Q: What is one of the best half about being a student-athlete at The College of Wooster? 

A: I like that I get to proceed to enhance myself in my sport at Wooster. It can be enjoyable to see your folks and classmates within the stands cheering throughout meets. 

Q: What else had been you concerned with on campus apart from your sport? 

A: I’ve been on Chasing International Dance Team all 4 years, and am at present the co-captain. I am the founder and president of Echo Choom (Ok-Pop) Dance Crew. I participated within the annual Culture Show all 4 years. 

Q: Which College of Wooster school or employees member has made the best affect on you and why? 

A: Taking behavioral endocrinology with Dr. Sharon Lynn and evolution with Dr. Richard Lehtinen actually reminder me why I’m thinking about biology within the first place. Both professors actually stimulated my curiosity throughout their programs, and I really feel like I at all times left class wanting to inform somebody concerning the cool new factor I realized. 

Q: What different folks or sources impacted your Wooster expertise in a optimistic means and the way did these folks and sources set you up to achieve success at Wooster? 

A: Coach Harrington has accomplished a fantastic job at ensuring we really feel like we are able to succeed within the pool and within the classroom. Setting up conferences with APEX for the underclass staff members helped me be taught extra concerning the sources on campus that may assist me achieve success. 

Q: Tell us a bit about your Independent Study undertaking? 

A: I’m how bodily modifications to computer-generated looming stimuli have an effect on Carolina grasshoppers’ predator freeze response. 

Q: Tell us a bit about one thing cool you probably did as a scholar at The College of Wooster?  

A: For my internship final summer time, I started working at a chemical firm within the high quality assurance and high quality management division. It was a fantastic expertise to see features of what I have been studying at school put into work for actual eventualities. 

Q: Reflecting again in your time at Wooster, what recommendation would you give your first-year self? 

A: Do not be afraid to be your self and know your limits. Everything will work out so do not overlook to simply be you. 

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