On the Field

Coach Bruce Heppler on what makes Georgia Tech golf great Bruce Heppler can’t seem to escape golf. Growing up, his parents and sister all played, and he financed his own club fees by chasing down range balls and washing clubs. But after his junior college cancelled its golf program his sophomore year, he set aside more

In the world of competitive kayaking, only hundredths of a second separate the elite from the also-rans. The training is intense and goes year round. In the upper echelons of biomedical academia, graduate students often sacrifice their personal lives to distinguish themselves as researchers. While either of those would be challenge enough, James Wade, ISyE more

While a freshman at the Naval Academy, Brian Gregory might not have had the stature of 7-foot-tall All-American David Robinson, but he did have a reputation as a star player all the same. “He was a smart guy, super disciplined,” said Chris Thomas, who was in Gregory’s class and lived across the hall from him. more

The goal is not to win the Death Race, it is to simply finish. To accomplish that, one must endure 24 hours of physically grueling tasks mixed with an array of mental challenges. Barbed wire figures prominently. The organizers say it takes a lunatic to enter and a very special person to finish. Each year, more