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Alumni Spotlight

Pressing Toward the Goal

May 11, 2017 02:33 PM
Jennifer Rockwood stepped onto BYU’s South Field and gazed numbly across the green turf. “What have I gotten myself into?” she recalls thinking. “Can I really do this?”
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Alumni Spotlight

Roadside Attraction

June 03, 2016 01:57 PM
As hand-cut steaks sizzle on the grill, Trevor Mecham is up to his elbows in a pile of sweet potato fries. In the oven a sheet of enormous cinnamon rolls–each roughly the size of a dinner plate–awaits a schmear of sugary-sweet frosting.
9 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Small Town, Big Business

By Lena Harper Primosch
February 10, 2016 08:34 AM
At the base of lofty Mount Nebo in rural Utah, Traci Memmott wraps up a conference call with a team in New York City. She jots down a few notes, gathers her things to leave, and closes up shop—she has an important appointment.
8 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

The Right Call

By Jordan Christiansen
October 08, 2015 01:20 PM
The roar of more than thirty thousand screaming fans had just been swallowed by an avalanche of noise from an F-22 Raptor and an F-15 fighter jet streaking overhead.
7 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Change of Address

By Bremen Leak
June 03, 2015 01:54 PM
What if moving halfway around the world wasn’t a grand departure into the unknown but, rather, a return to the familiar?
9 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Gravity Check

February 13, 2015 11:29 AM
It reads like a worst-case scenario: you’re slicing through rough air to check on an offshore oil rig when the unfathomable happens—the chopper goes down. Would you survive?
7 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Speaker of the House

October 08, 2014 10:58 AM
The Utah Governor’s Mansion was blanketed in soft, blue light. The occasion was World Autism Awareness Day 2014, and buildings across the country were swapping bulbs to highlight a disorder that affects one in sixty-eight American children.
8 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Rank and File

October 08, 2014 09:48 AM
Curtis Bedont thought he knew what it meant to be in the military. Though he spent his formative years on bases in foreign outposts, his fighter-pilot father never faced deployment.
9 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Melodic Progression

February 07, 2014 11:31 AM
“Citius! Altius! Fortius!” Heralding the commencement of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the 360-member Mormon Tabernacle Choir reverberated John Williams’s “Call of the Champions” across Rice-Eccles Stadium.
7 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Full Speed Ahead

June 01, 2013 02:48 PM
The red Porsche featured clean lines and 390 horsepower, but for fifteen-year-old Eric Watson, it might as well have been the family station wagon. This was the first time the high schooler had slid into the driver’s seat.
9 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Family Style

By Emily Edmonds
February 01, 2013 10:59 AM
With wet eyelashes, Reachel walked out of her bedroom and found a stranger sitting in her apartment. The guy casually resting his elbow on the couch was Andrew, a friend of her roommates. 
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Alumni Spotlight

Virtual Visionary

By Bremen Leak
October 01, 2012 10:48 AM
In an ever-expanding digital universe, Brad Rencher and his team at Adobe Systems Inc. navigate the Cloud like rocket men.
8 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Cowboy Business

June 01, 2012 12:09 PM
Growing up in Central Florida, Erik Jacobsen pretty much knew he wanted to be a cowboy by the time he was twelve or thirteen years old.
10 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

In Good Company

February 01, 2012 10:28 AM
Alison Davis-Blake isn’t one for convention. Her quiet demeanor, questioning mind, and drive to excel have always set her apart. 
8 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Luxury Sweet

October 01, 2011 11:47 AM
Sumptuous. Decadent. Delightful.  Few words could more adequately describe a box of Lula’s Chocolates. Neatly perched inside each mahogany-colored package await aromatic round crèmes, salted caramels, square truffles, and nuts cloaked with melt-in-your-mouth cocoa. 
7 Min Read
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