Josh Stone - Associate Director of Recreation Programs

Hometown: Columbus Ohio by way of Colorado and Murfreesboro
Hobbies: Throwing some steeze in the gnar, coming through with proper stoke, and petting bunny rabbits
Favorite Outdoor Destination: Maui or Anywhere where there is snow and mountains
Quote to Live By: "Your work is to discover your world and then with all of your heart give yourself to it."

Alyssa Smoger

Hometown: Louisville, KY
Hobbies: music and just about anything that involves water
Favorite Outdoor Destination: the ocean! doesn't matter which beach or ocean, as long as there is sand and waves
Quote to Live By: "If you never get outside of the box you've been living in, you will truly never understand how much bigger the world really is."

Tyler Barksdale

Hometown: Huntsville, AL
Hobbies: Bear wrestling, underwater basket weaving, and snorkeling in the bathtub.
Favorite Outdoor Destination: Sipsie wilderness
Quote to Live By: "To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'"

Mary Alice Porter

Hometown: Murfreesboro
Hobbies: Camping, skiing, pretty much anything outdoors, sports, etc.
Favorite Outdoor Destination: Anywhere near the beach :)
Quote to Live By: "Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed." Proverbs 16:3

Cassi Clark

Hometown: Murfreesboro and Smyrna
Hobbies: Colorguard, Winterguard, Girl Scouts, speaking Spanish
Favorite Outdoor Destination: the beach
Quote to Live By: "Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Amanda McGraw

Hometown: Maryville, TN
Hobbies: Reading, soccer, laughing, singing off key...
Favorite Outdoor Destination: Colorado Rockies
Quote to live by: "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." -C.S. Lewis

Diaondra Simpson

Hometown: Knoxville, TN
Hobbies: Reading, swimming, tennis, coloring (ha I'm a nerd)
Quote to live by: "Courage is not lack of fear, but rather it is taking action in the face of, and despite, fear."

Whitney Oliver

Hometown: Kingsport, Tennessee
Hobbies: Photography, climbing mountains, Kayaking with penguins in Antarctica, and swimming with Michael Phelps
Favorite Outdoor Destination: France or anywhere over seas or anywhere with snow or water nearby
Quote to Live By: "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."

Parker Molitor

Hometown: Murfreesboro, TN
Hobbies: Raquetball, Building/racing Cars, Four Wheeling, Rock Climbing, Stock Trading
Favorite Outdoor Destination: The Beach
Quote to Live By: "For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." Jer. 29:11

Emily Coffman
Interim Program Coordinator

Hobbies: climbing, bouldering, backpacking, traveling
Quote to Live By: "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
-Edward Abbey

Jason Goins

Hobbies: Guitar, sports
Quote to Live By: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Tim Rideout

Hometown: Murfreesboro
Hobbies: Being the best kayaker on staff and being awesome at everything
Favorite Outdoor Destination: Western NC near the Green River
Quote to Live By: "Fortune favors the brave"

Matthew "Mattias" Carlton

Hobbies: Photography, Volleyball, , collecting buggers, poking people, making people fall, pulling down the visor when the driver is driving, blaming other people.
Favorite Outdoor place- Max Patch North Carolina and Virgin Falls and Grand Canyon
Quote to live by- “Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.” Edward Abbey

Vogan Thompson

Hobbies: Kayaking, climbing, crying on the couch watching Oprah, and taking time to heal the world
Favorite Outdoor Place: Pisgah National Forest or Omaha Nebraska
Quote to live by: I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!
-Stephen Colbert

Helen Hailey Traver

Hometown: Knoxville, TN. yep, Go Vols!
Hobbies: Climbing, paddling, making stuff, giving backwards complements
Favorite Outdoor destination: solitude at day break, the woods
Quote to live by: "Demonstrating is highly effective, explaining is costly, time consuming, and much less effective. What you fail to demonstrate you are condemned to explain."

Name:"The Great" Britton Arnett Major: Construction Management
Hometown: The Boro
Hobbies: Crushin it up on the sloaps in that fresh pow pow! Sticking an in your face sticky sticky gnar gnar pinky finger hold on that 5.4000! Kicking it with my YoungLife homies and Jesus!
Quote to live by: "BRING THE NOISE!" and "Everyday I'm hustlin'"

Name: Andrew "The Drew" Johnson
Major: Economics
Where are you from: The Bad Streets of Baltimore, MD
Hobbies: Hiking, Swimming, Tennis, Wii Sports, Poker, Video Games, Winning, Being Awesome, Movies, Hanging Out, Eating
Quote: "You can't lose what you don't put in the middle, but you can't win much either."

Name: Chance Kellar
Major: Professional Pilot
Hometown: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Hobbies: Flying, Skiing, Drumming, Watching Spongebob, Sleeping
Quote to live by: Everyone must find their own way

Name: Cora Rowland
Hometown: PO Dunk, Tn
Favorite outdoor destination: the ocoee river- its the only place to go!!!
Hobbies: Whitewater, stick throwin’, fireworks, and some rock climbing
Quote to live by: live life to the fullest you never know when its your last day!!!!!

Name: Breanna Molitor
Hometown: Murfreesboro
Favorite outdoor destination: Anywhere that includes a beach or forest
Hobbies: playing pingpong, sand volleyball, and soccer, watching good movies, driving around with my windows down and my music turned up, hiking, singing, and a bunch of other stuff.
Quote: "Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda

Name: Kayla Goddard
Hometown: Knoxville
Favoite outdoor Destination: Obed
Hobbies: Rock Climbing, donkey wrestling, and anything outdoors
Quote to live by: love never fails

Name: Israel Adrian Valdes
Home town: Mexico city D.F. Mexico
Favorite destination: Pisgah Forrest
Hobbies: Backpacking, rock climbing, outdoors, and making sandwiches
Quote :"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."- theodore roosevelt

Name: Amelia Lawrence
Hometown: Lithia Springs, Georgia
Favorite Outdoor Destination: The Occoe
Quote to Live by: I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Name: Lauren Ellis
Hometown: Cleveland, TN
Favorite Outdoor Destination: Somewhere with Snow or Whitewater
Quote to Live by: If life is a canvas, I want to be Picasso