Page 6 - Laker Connection Fall 2012

4 THE LAKER CONNECTION
The Clayton State women’s basketball team realized their ultimate athletic dream when they became NCAA Division II National Champions in 2011.
coming the first member of your family to go to college and then winning a national cham- pionship -- are made real for students like bi- ology major Sotheavy Vann, who dreams of walking on the continents, or Tanisha Woodard, a national champion, an NCAA Di- vision II Basketball First-Team All-Ameri- can, a Clayton State psychology major, and the first one in her family to graduate high school and continue on to college. Woodard
Woodard
had one dream made real by holding a na- tional championship trophy, and another dream made real by holding her acceptance letter to college.
Empowering
Clayton State is an empowering expe- rience, a place where students from a wide range of backgrounds and experience come to receive an excellent education and develop relevant skills to position themselves for later professional achievements. Students like Vann, who came to Clayton State as a dual enrollment student and has continued on with her studies because she sees Clayton State’s Biology Department as enabling and empow- ering her dream of medical school, and of walking on all seven continents.
“I am on the pre-med track, so I plan to use my studies in biology to go to medical school,” she says. “Although I could have chosen any other major and fulfilled the re- quired pre-requisite to get into medical
“I am on the pre-med track, so I plan to use my studies in biology to go to medical school. Although I could have chosen any other major and fulfilled the required pre-requisite to get into medical school, I believe that a biology degree would best prepare me for the MCAT and medical school. As of right now, I am undecided about what type of physician I want to be, but I do know that I want to be a doctor that is most needed in third world countries.
Sotheavy Vann
DREAMS. MADE REAL.
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