When Catherine came to Wyoming Catholic College for the PEAK summer program when she was 16, it seemed like a different planet. The vast plains of sagebrush and the huge rocky mountains of pine trees painted a very different picture from the lush green hills and forests of upstate South Carolina. The rigorous academic curriculum married to a real and distinct education of the whole person, in the wilderness and away from technology, drew Catherine into the WCC community. In Wyoming, Catherine fell in love with many things that she hardly knew even existed. Besides the Rocky Mountains and sage brush, these included socratic discussion, reading Boethius, Dostoevsky and other Great Books, backpacking, rock climbing, dancing, folk songs, and poetry, to name a few. After graduating in 2019, she was happy to stay on as an Admissions Counselor for two years. She was so persuasive at preaching the joy of study and leisure that she took her own advice and went to the International Theological Institute in Austria to pursue her Master’s in Theology. After the class and culture of Europe, the wild west called her back and she is excited to continue sharing the goods of her WCC education with others as the Director of Admissions. In her free time, Catherine likes to try and do all the things that she talks about all day long to potential students.