Class Notes

finished 13th in the world at the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games in July. In August he came back to campus to speak to this year’s Fighting Scots football team about his journey from being a student athlete to being a world-class competitor.

will compete in 2016 CrossFit Games in July 2016. See more here:

2016 was his second year qualifying and competing at the worldwide CrossFit Games. In 2015 he received 13th place, and in July 2016 came in at 11th place! He said while he was hoping to do better this year, he is still happy to improve upon last year. He looks forward to this years training, and is hungry to get back out there and represent East Tennessee and Maryville College.

During the international Reebok CrossFit Games Aug. 3-6 in Madison, Wis., Alex finished in ninth place after coming in 11th in 2016 and 13th in 2015. As a professional CrossFit athlete, he trains by doing multiple workout sessions a day in this discipline that involves everything from training with weights, to physical endurance, to gymnastics-like exercises. Read more here: http://trueviralnews.com/meet-tennessees-fittest-man/

is now Summer Law Clerk at Blount County District Attorney General’s Office.

is currently Staff Interpreter/Educational Interpreter at Sign Language Specialists of Western, PA, Inc. and has interpreted at Overbrook Regional High School.

is now working at Childhelp, a nonprofit agency with group homes for abused children as a Behavioral Interventionist.

Birmingham-based law firm of Carr Allison has added Erin Gomez as new associate to its Chattanooga office. Gomez, a graduate of Maryville College and Emory University School of Law, will focus her practice on commercial transportation, premises liability, professional liability and labor and employment litigation. At Emory, she served as an editor of the Emory International Law Review, a student member of the Emory International Humanitarian Law Clinic and president of Emory Immigration Law Practice Society. While in law school, Erin interned with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Coca-Cola Company.

Mollianne Reese Hubbs '11 has been named as the Sevier County Wildfire Response Coordinator by the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. The Holston Conference is partnering with the Appalachian Service Project to build 25 homes for people who lost their homes due to the wildfires.

Kingsport City Schools has announced the appointment of Wesley Idlette as the head coach of the high school’s wrestling program. Idlette has been teaching physical education at Andrew Johnson Elementary School since 2012. See the full article here: http://www.timesnews.net/Sports/2017/07/20/KCS-names-D-B-wrestling-coach.html?ci=stream&lp=14&p=1

In July 2018, Samuel T. Jackson ’12 started new position with University of Tennessee, Knoxville Alumni Affairs Office as Assistant Director for the Center of Student Alumni Programs.

The East Carolina softball program completed its staff with the hiring of Leah Kelley ’12 as an assistant coach according to an announcement from head coach Beth Keylon-Randolph on Monday. Kelley, who will work with infielders and outfielders and also be involved in game management and recruiting responsibilities, was a two-year letter winner at Maryville College and helped the Scots reach the championship game of the Great South Athletic Conference in 2012.

has a new position as a PRN Resident Advisor for a recovery and sobriety home in Nashville.

Completed her master’s degree at College of Charleston and is a Researcher at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Chapel Hill, NC. The lab group works on lung cellular epigenetic responses to air pollutant exposures (primarily ozone) using in vitro primary cell models and some clinical human exposure studies.

Is employed by Morristown-Hamblen High School West in Morristown, TN as a Science Teacher.

Donald Rucker ’12, elementary school principal for KIPP Metro Atlanta, was recently selected as one of Atlanta’s most eligible bachelors for 2018 by Jezebel Magazine. See more: https://www.modernluxury.com/jezebel/digital-edition

Paige Sevier ’12 has been hired as Watertown (TN) High’s girls’ basketball coach. Sevier spent the previous two years teaching math at her alma mater Jackson County and serving as an assistant on the Lady Devil team under Jim Brown. She was two seasons an assistant at Macon County. She played two years each at Roane State Community College and at Maryville College. Read more here: http://www.lebanondemocrat.com/Basketball/2018/06/19/Sevier-takes-over-Tigerettes.html?ci=stream&lp=1&p=

Graduated with a Master’s of Science in Occupational Therapy from Milligan College in 2014. Now works as an OTR.

Graduated from Union University in May 2013 with a Masters in Urban Education through the Memphis Teacher Residency. She is about to go into her second year of teaching English at Kingsbury High School in Memphis, TN.