{"id":1516,"date":"2009-06-02T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:52:55","slug":"a-sneak-peek-at-this-falls-freshman-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/06\/a-sneak-peek-at-this-falls-freshman-class\/","title":{"rendered":"A sneak peek at this fall\u2019s freshman class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"freshmen1-june09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/freshmen1-june09.jpg\" alt=\"(clockwise from top left) Tom Soda, Megan Atchley, Matt Mackay, Courtney Acarregui\" width=\"225\" height=\"287\" \/>As graduating high school seniors make their final choices on what university they will attend this fall, Baylor is already gearing up to welcome in the next group of freshman &#8212; the class of 2013. Here&#8217;s a quick glimpse at some of the faces that will be gracing campus in just a couple of months:<\/p>\n<p>* Nigerian-born <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/nb\/fortbend\/news\/6445133.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mosope \u201cTom\u201d Soda<\/a> grew up near Houston and graduated last weekend from B.F. Terry High School in the top 10% of his class. An Eagle Scout, Soda was also recently recognized with the President\u2019s Volunteer Service Award for the time he has spent serving his community. He will enter Baylor as a pre-med major and hopes to become an orthopedic surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtrnews.com\/union-boundary\/3706\/SpiritStudentOftheMonth\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Atchley<\/a> spent four years as a cheerleader at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but still found time to serve as president of Amnesty International and Young Democrats of Tulsa. She plans to double-major at Baylor in Spanish and political science, then attend medical school to become a reconstructive plastic surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/stories\/052109\/hss_hs2.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Mackay<\/a> was not only an all-district linebacker at Amarillo High School; he also will graduate No. 8 in his class of 496 and scored a 34 out of 36 on his ACT. High school football coaches are stereotyped as tough men, but Mackay&#8217;s coach, Brad Theissen, speaks highly of the senior: &#8220;Matt was a dream to coach and is such a good guy to be around. I can&#8217;t say enough nice things about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Sisters, Oregon, native <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuggetnews.com\/main.asp?SectionID=8&amp;SubSectionID=8&amp;ArticleID=15832&amp;TM=39320.26\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Acarregui<\/a> has always been a competitor, whether that&#8217;s participation in 4-H (where she was one of the top youth rabbit breeders in the nation four years running), raising funds for charity (she helped write a grant that netted a local neonatal intensive care unit $10,000) or riding horses (she will join Baylor&#8217;s varsity equestrian program this fall).<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Tom, Megan, Matt, Courtney and the class of 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As graduating high school seniors make their final choices on what university they will attend this fall, Baylor is already gearing up to welcome in the next group of freshman &#8212; the class of 2013. Here&#8217;s a quick glimpse at some of the faces that will be gracing campus in just a couple of months: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extraordinary-stories","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}