Jon Woodcock and Kelsey Mericka hardly know each other, but they certainly have big plans for their futures.
Woodcock, a starting pitcher on Tech’s baseball team, will be pursuing a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering next fall, while Mericka, the starting third baseman on the softball squad, will spend the next academic year wrapping up coursework toward a degree in industrial and systems engineering and finishing classes on minors in green engineering and statistics.
Their academic successes, along with their success on the field and in the community, led to both receiving the 2015 Skelton Award for Academic Excellence in Athletics – the highest designation handed out by the Tech athletics department.