If you telephone a student's room before nine o'clock, you're probably delivering a wake-up call. But at seven-thirty this morning, Anne Shropshire is not only up, she's running. Twice a week, the captain of Wake Forest's women's soccer team lifts weights after her run, but not this morning, as she has an eight o'clock class in productions and operations management at the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.
Life is good for the senior from Lexington, Kentucky.
Having stayed in Winston-Salem over the summer to take classes, she's on track to graduate in the spring and carries a B average as a business major and French minor. She works with youth in the community, and serves, along with other captains of men's and women's teams, on the Student Athlete Advisory Board, which provides counsel on various issues to Director of Athletics Ron Wellman. But today, Shropshire is trying to dispel the last vestiges of a cloudy mood. Tall and lean, she's quick to flash a broad smile, but, serious by nature, her game face never seems totally suppressed. Like most successful college athletes, she's intense, focused, and exceedingly competitive.