AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. - Just one day of training wheels was sufficient for Mary Stewart Witherspoon.
“’She does not need training wheels,’” her father, Dwight, said to his wife, Elizabeth. “And her mom looked at me and said, ‘Take ‘em off.’” Mary Stewart was 3 years old.
“We want her to be independent, and tough, and make decisions, and learn how to take care of herself,” Dwight says. “That’s just something we want to pass on to her. She naturally takes that. She has that kind of personality.”
Growing up with two older brothers, Mary Stewart has always been in a hurry to keep up, whether it’s flooring her battery operated car, or saying, “Faster, Dad,” while riding with Dwight on his motorcycle.