Sport and spirituality attracted Adam Dickinson ’12 to Viterbo University, and he remains grateful he had the opportunity to be a V-Hawk. Viterbo was Dickinson’s springboard to a full and fulfilling life that is still unfolding.

JayVon and Megan Adams reflect often on how fortunate they are, even in the midst of a pandemic. It’s common for that gratitude to become good fortune for someone else, sometimes in a big way. A very big way.

Nikki Miller is a proud 22-year veteran of law enforcement. After graduating from Viterbo in 1998, Miller began working at the La Crosse County Juvenile Detention Facility. She later transferred to the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Office in 2001 and began working as a jailer.

Jenna Larson came to Viterbo University to study nursing, but soon started to feel like the major wasn’t quite the right fit for her.

“Then one day I was sitting down with my younger sister helping her do her math homework and I completely retaught her a math problem,” Larson recalled. “I had this amazing lightbulb moment. I was like ‘wow, this is the thing that I’m missing in my life.’” 

Recent graduate Alex Clement has fond memories of sinking three-pointers for the Viterbo University men’s basketball team, and crunching numbers with his accounting classmates at the Dahl School of Business.

Carson Skemp has roots in La Crosse, but came to Viterbo University from Italy.

Skemp, who just graduated with a double major in sport management and leadership and Spanish, was born in the U.S. His mother is Italian, and he and his family moved there at a young age, but his father is originally from La Crosse.