 Okay, my name is Mariah Savage. I'm a junior here at Stevenson University. I play indoor volleyball. I'm studying criminal justice. That's my major. I'm a human services minor and I will be getting my master's in communications. I'm from always most Maryland so I actually live like five minutes up the street. Well I was fortunate enough to be a part of a winning team and so that just makes the experience that much better for me. I'm a very competitive person and I like to win and if you see me play you can see that in my demeanor and the way that I play. So being a part of a team that's loving and caring and that wins is like very special to me and it doesn't hurt that the teachers are very supportive of us and they work with us so being a student in an athletic department that's very supportive and above and beyond kind of makes Stevenson unique for me. The biggest reason that I chose D3 is because this D3 school is competitive and it's close to home. I'm very close with my family we're very close in it so I definitely didn't want to choose a school that was far away but I also wanted to be at a competitive school and Stevenson definitely allows me to play in a program and play different schools that are competitive and that are going to challenge me so that's why I chose Stevenson and well D3 and specifically Stevenson. But for the most part the students and the teachers are very supportive of athletes. There are a lot of students that I see walking in the hallways that I see at my games and it just makes me feel a little warm inside because I know that they know me outside of you know the girl that's going to help me on my stats test. They see me as an athlete and they see me as a person. The same for teachers they I've had a teacher a couple of teachers come to my math conference championship so it's nice to know that they know you outside of what they see you as in an everyday situation if that makes sense. So they see different sides of me they see the athlete in me the goofy me the fire in me when you know I'm riled up on the court they just see a lot of different aspects of me and they or parts or sides of me that they wouldn't see when they see me day-to-day during the week. That makes sense.