Graduate spotlights highlight members of the May Class of 2025
Read more about the interesting stories of those who make up the Lipscomb University May 2025 graduating class.
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Each semester, the graduating class is composed of students who have unique stories and have been impacted by their experiences at Lipscomb in profound ways.
Below are just a few of the stories of the May 2025 graduating class. Check back over the next few days as we add more stories!
- College of Pharmacy graduates first four master’s students
- Marine veteran and mother of three earns civil engineering degree
- Rogers finds purpose in fueling peak performance through sports nutrition
- Blickensderfer named one of Poets&Quants' Top 100 undergraduate business majors for 2025
- Smith digs into the past to build a future
- Nashville native discovers passion for film composition at Lipscomb
- Shulam prepares for law school, career in sports law
- Shewmaker’s six-year Lipscomb journey begins on softball diamond, ends with master’s degree
- Wenger brings leadership skills from military cockpit to classroom
- Worth’s real-world experience with Dolly Parton Exhibit, music industry projects training ground for career
- Lipscomb team earns second place, $25,000 prize at prestigious TCU Values and Ventures® competition
- Wadlington finds calling to ministry at Lipscomb
- Stephens' love of problem solving leads him to engineering, math majors
- Ball finds harmony between art and science on way to med school
- Mobley carries on great-grandmother’s legacy of service through accounting
- Pierson's 1,600 mile journey to Lipscomb leads to master’s degree, career in nutrition
- Reckard finds purpose through engineering, faith at Lipscomb
- Sofia Hernandez Morales finds her ‘voice’ on Lipscomb’s stage
- Alexander turns childhood curiosity about technology into career
- From the pitch to a purpose: Macready finds his path at Lipscomb
- MFA grad Avery Kroll’s animated short ‘The Piano’ selected for Tribeca Festival
- SGA President Janeyah Anderson prepares for next chapter
- Pruitt’s decision to attend Lipscomb will have lifelong impact
- Miller finds strength and faith through challenges, community
- Swinging for the fences: Waller finds career in baseball through analytics
- Thompson finds new calling through clinical mental health counseling program
- Johnson advances mission with master’s degree in leadership and public service
- MBA studies prepare veteran Isaac Elkins for commission as intelligence officer
- Tel Gezer excavation provides training ground for Lipscomb’s newest archeology Ph.D. graduate
- First IMPACT school counseling program cohort graduates ready to make a difference in local schools
- Knelange digs into faith and history through archaeology