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Quincy Jenkins<\/a> came to Baylor in 2003 from tiny Trinidad, Texas (population 1,091), as a pre-med major. After walking on to the football team under head coach Guy Morriss, Jenkins went on to earn a scholarship and appear in 40 games as a defensive tackle for the Bears\u00a0— all while earning his degree in biology.<\/p>\n Last December, he\u00a0added another Baylor degree — his online MBA<\/a> — and he now works at Google as a senior strategist, living in Southern California\u00a0with his wife, Ashley (BBA ’12), and three-month-old daughter, Zoe.<\/p>\n So, you might say Jenkins, BS \u201909, MBA \u201916, knows something about taking on a challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still the only six-man (football) player to get a scholarship to a Division I university and play all four years,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m pretty proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Jenkins had never played a traditional 11-man game of football until he was playing in the Big 12 Conference, appearing in 10 games as a walk-on true freshman in 2003.\u00a0You\u2019d expect a big learning curve, coming from the small-town game to the Big 12. But early his freshman season, Jenkins earned a starting spot on the defensive line, and a year later, he was on scholarship for the Bears.<\/p>\n After earning his undergraduate degree in biology in 2009, Jenkins eventually\u00a0decided that medicine wasn’t right for him.\u00a0He spent several years in sales for Sherwin-Williams, and two years ago, felt a desire to grow his business and leadership skills.\u00a0Now 32 years old and married, he needed to balance work and family (he and his wife learned they were\u00a0expecting their first child during his studies) with the desire to pursue a degree to better himself and his career.<\/p>\n Baylor\u2019s online MBA program<\/a> proved to be a perfect fit. Students can complete their coursework in 12-16 months on the accelerated track from wherever they are working, like Jenkins did in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area. That flexibility was a major factor, but not the only thing that drew him back to Baylor.<\/p>\n U.S. News and World Report<\/em><\/a> notes that Baylor online MBA classes are taught by the same \u201cnationally-acclaimed faculty\u201d that teach on campus. Jenkins and other MBA students credit the program\u2019s \u201cDefine, Discover, Deliver<\/a>\u201d approach for helping advance their career. For students like Jenkins, who did not take business classes in college, that foundation helps build a better understanding of the principles and purpose of business to enhance what they\u2019ve seen in their own careers.<\/p>\n His work paid off quickly. In March, the life-long Texan moved to Silicon Valley as a senior strategist with Google.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Quincy Jenkins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quincy Jenkins came to Baylor in 2003 from tiny Trinidad, Texas (population 1,091), as a pre-med major. After walking on to the football team under head coach Guy Morriss, Jenkins went on to earn a scholarship and appear in 40 games as a defensive tackle for the Bears\u00a0— all while earning his degree in biology. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","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=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}