Larry Alexander graduated from Lipscomb University in 1996 with a double major in Exercise Science and Psychology. He is now an author and the Co-Founder and Program Director of ChallengePoint.
Now, for the questions...
WULU: Mr. Alexander, why a double major? How did you make that decision?
MR. A: I started my freshman year as a math major (at least in my mind) because my mom informed me I needed to be an engineer and make lots of money. After my Trigonometry final though, I realized I hated math and swore to never take another course. Being a college athlete, I became interested in Physical Therapy and decided to pursue Exercise Science. My freshman year I had taken Psychology 101 with Dr. Roy Hamley. I loved his teaching style so much that I kept taking his classes until my junior year when I realized I just needed four more classes to have a Psychology major. In the end, I majored in both, which happened to be the groundwork for Therapeutic Recreation - the field I pursued in graduate school at University of Tennessee.
WULU: What were some of the best experiences you had in college?
MR. A: I ran track at Lipscomb (primarily the 400m) and without doubt my best experiences involved the camaraderie I shared with my teammates. We had little publicity back then and few fans, so when you won your event at the Vanderbilt Invitational, it was your teammates who cheered you on. When you were stressed out from too many tests, it was your teammates who pirated the key to the athletic training room where we had access to the whirlpool and indoor swimming pool at 2 AM. When you accidentally poured a five-gallon bucket of water off High Rise and "baptized" an unsuspecting president of a social club along with his freshly folded laundry, and now had a mob of Greek letters chasing you, it's your teammates, along with the basketball team, baseball team and golf team, who defended you. Ah... those were the days.
