Kim (Dwyer) Larson ’81 capped a career in nutrition, which included becoming the Seattle Mariners baseball team’s first sports nutritionist and launching a wellness coaching and consulting business, by writing a book on battling high blood pressure.

As an inner-city Milwaukee kid, Adrian Boyd ’92 didn’t see himself as a world traveler. His basketball skills and work ethic, however, led to him logging countless miles as a pro basketball player and entrepreneur, making a particularly big splash in New Zealand.

For Viterbo vocal music performance grad Katherine Weber ’10, music has opened the world to her. Literally. She now lives in Amsterdam, engaged to a U.K. native, and has performances planned this year in several European countries as well as the U.S.

Josh Lichty is an assistant professor in the School of Education. Prior to teaching at Viterbo, he taught elementary and middle school for 16 years, including coaching numerous sports—he is currently coaching football and track in Onalaska. Lichty received his master’s degree in educational leadership from Viterbo in 2017.

The theme of the high school commencement speech Renee (Heuss) Volk ’99 gave, taken from a Dr. Seuss book, was telling: “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” The travel-loving mother of four has seen much of the world and now lives in a 300-year-old house in Germany.

Dillon McArdle has been named the director of the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center effective July 1. He succeeds Michael Ranscht, who became executive director of university relations in 2020.

Melissa Edgar, who graduated May 16 with a BS in biology, had already been accepted by the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus. She recently learned she had been awarded the Dean’s Scholarship, an incredibly prestigious and rare four-year, full-tuition medical school grant.

Thanks to COVID-19, the volleyball standout Maya Roberts has another year of eligibility. And thanks to Viterbo’s 4-plus-1 program, a year from now she’ll be graduating from Viterbo again, this time with a Master of Arts in Servant Leadership degree.

Tanner Sanness '19 jumped right into a job in his major field—marketing—after graduation, but he soon found a way to put his business education and ag background to work in a new way. He started his own business, Reconnected Farms, offering as his first product oyster and lion's mane mushrooms.

Kelsey (Ludwig) Stefanich '20 and her fellow nursing seniors couldn't do their capstone clinicals because of the pandemic. Even without the capstone, Stefanich found she was well prepared to dive into the nursing profession when she got a job at a hospital in Juneau, Alaska.