On the Field

  • The Long Game

    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

  • Doctoral Student Kayaks Toward Olympics

    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

  • Gregory Promises Hard Court Revival

    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

  • Alumnus Braves Annual Death Race

    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

  • Tall on the Mound

    Shaina Ervin spent her four years as a star pitcher at North Carolina State as a looming threat to the Georgia Tech softball team. Ervin, who is 6 feet 3 inches tall, led the Wolfpack to a successful run against the Yellow Jackets from 2003 to 2007 and helped her team win the 2006 ACC more