Matt Liddle

Major:  Eating bagels and keeping it real.
Hometown:  Great question!Certifications:    Certified espresso addict.
Interests:  Climbing – bouldering, sport, trad, ice, alpine.  International travel, food, music, and big wilderness fit in there somewhere.

Quote: “then laugh, leaning back in my arms / for life's not a paragraph / And death i think is no parenthesis”  - E. E. Cummings

Student Leaders

Grace Andrews

Class: 2013
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Columbia, MD
Certifications: WFR
Interests: Challenge/Ropes Courses, Canoeing, Kayaking, Backpacking, Running, Hiking

Quote:"You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one" -John Lennon 

Jo Bayne

Class: 2011
Major: Fine Arts
Hometown: Monkton, MD
Certifications: WFR
Interests: Climbing, Hiking, Backpacking, scenic outdoor twilight views

Quote: "To see far is one thing: going there is another." -Brancusi

Patrick Decker

Class: 2013
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Certifications: WFR
Interests: Enjoying life and the outdoors-climbing, skiing, Kayaking, and Backpacking

Quote: "Never forget for a single moment that life belongs to those who are explorers." -Bhagwan Shree

Quintin Gabler

Class: 2012
Major: Chemistry
Hometown: Harrisburg, PA
Certifications: WFR, LNT Trainer
Interests: climbing, caving, camping, challenge course

Quote: "Always be a little kinder than necessary." -James M. Barrie

Courtney Garwood

Class: 2011
Major: International Business and Economics
Hometown: Bear, DE
Certifications: WFR
Interests: caving, climbing, backpacking, napping

Quote: "The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." Christopher McCandless

Brittany Graham

Class:2012
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Annapolis, MD
Certifications: WFR
Interests: everything outdoor but especially climbing and backpacking

Quote: "Not all who wander are lost" J. R. R. Tolkien

Matt Marlowe

Class: 2011
Major: Communications
Hometown: Unknown/Where ever I happen to be at the time
Certifications: WFR, Rope Technician
Interests: caving, climbing

Quote: "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

Sam Maticka

Class: 2012
Major: Theology and Youth Ministry
Hometown: Ringwood, NJ
Certifications: WFR, LNT Trainer, EMT
Interests: climbing, caving, kayaking, wandering aimlessly and finding secnic views

Quote: "I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning and they soon will be dry,
and all who see me, all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly." John Denver

Mike Neuman

Class: 2013
Major: Accounting
Hometown: Catonsville, MD
Certifications: WFR
Interests: Climbing, Snowboarding, Biking, Caving, Backpacking, Canoeing, Slack lining, Hiking, Exploring, Kayaking, Whitewater Rafting, Anything that is extreme and has to do with the outdoors!

Quote: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." -T. S. Eliot.

Kristen Portalea

Class: 2011
Major: Math
Hometown: Olney, MD
Certifications: WFR
Interests: climbing, caving, skiing, snowboarding, wake boarding, whitewater rafting, hiking

Quote: "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, and three times if I live."

Andrea Smith

Class: 2011
Major: Elementary Education and Special Education
Hometown: Harrisburg, PA
Certifications: WFR
Interests: climbing, hiking, canoeing, kayaking

Quote: "The Lord replied, 'my son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you.  During the times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

Kyle Wakayama

Class: 2013
Major: Business
Hometown: Manoa Valley, HI
Certifications: WFR
Interests: Open Ocean canoe paddling, Rock Climbing, Hiking, Free-Diving

Quote: "Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become" - Osho