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Go for the Gold!

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Jul 3, 20191 min read

Updated: Jul 16, 2019

By: Ellie McGowan, Caroline Meister, and Lane Hawn


Louisvillian commuters witnessed the annual GSP Olympics on Saturday evening outside of Owsley Brown Frazier Stadium. Scholars and staff participated in team-building activities, providing competitive events for some friendly scholar versus scholar competition.

Alongside their fellow General Studies/Seminar classes, scholars participated in many “Olympic Games.” Moving from station to station, scholars created bonds and memories by racing trivia facts from one field to another, making a dress out of toilet paper, and having sing off competitions. Although there were no Michael Phelpses, Usain Bolts, or Gabby Douglases, scholars still had a blast competing against the brightest minds in the state.

Throughout the Olympic Games, students often found themselves absorbed with the idea that one team was victorious over another. In reality, the event ended without a medal ceremony. Although this type of community is not mainstream, we practice this method of collective achievement in order to build the confidence of all, rather than that of just one individual. In our GSP community, the goal is for all participants to have the opportunity to grow. We are all team-builders, encouragers, friends, scholars, and gold medalists.

Here, we have some Olympic highlights that showcase the event:








 
 
 

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Jennifer Price grew up in Hopkins County, Kentucky and attended South Hopkins High School. She was a Governor’s Scholar at Murray State University in 1992, and was assigned the Social and Political Theory focus area. After high school, she attended Transylvania University and pursued a degree in Psychology. She finished her bachelor’s degree and then decided to complete graduate school at the University of Arkansas, where she received a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. She has been a member of the GSP faculty and staff for many years, ranging from 1994 to present. She has done every job available except be a focus area instructor. Jen was recently encouraged by her friends to begin running and even completed a half marathon last may. Jen is a wife to Pete, and a mother to two children, Jacob (15) and Eli (12).

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Josh Woodward was a 1992 scholar at Murray State University. After completing undergraduate school at the University of Kentucky, Josh obtained a Masters in Water Resources from Minnesota and a Masters in Teaching from Cornell University. Outside of the program, Josh teaches a variety of science classes at Berea Community High School. When asked about his favorite part of the program, Josh responded with, “My favorite part is the notion that the five weeks is not really the program. It is everything after.” Nearly thirty years later, Josh and his fellow scholars are still close friends. 

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Helen Heines grew up in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, which is in Bullitt County. She attended North Bullitt High School where she applied and was accepted to attend GSP at Murray State University in 2010. Upon graduation in 2011, she continued her education at Western Kentucky University with a degree in elementary education. Currently, Helen is a 5th grade social studies teacher in Louisville, and spends her summers deeply involved in the GSP community. She began working as a Resident Advisor (RA) at Bellarmine University in 2015. She began moving up the ranks to become head RA and then later she obtained the title of Assistant Campus Director, a title that she still holds. 

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