Student Athlete Spotlight: Lax's Devin Wolford Travels to NCAA Convention

Student Athlete Spotlight: Lax's Devin Wolford Travels to NCAA Convention

Devin Wolford

Grade: Junior

Sport: Lacrosse

Major: Biology

High School: Hampton

Hobbies: Likes to play video games and watch movies

Favorite food: Pizza and sushi

Favorite genre of music: Pop

Favorite athlete: Juju Smith-Schuster

Favorite thing about La Roche: The intramural program

Position in Lacrosse: Attack

Favorite thing about lacrosse: Scoring goals and making friends along the way

Clubs and Organizations: Current SAAC president (Student Athletic Advisory Committee). Seat on student government.

Work: Target

Hobbies: Playing video games and watching movies

Favorite foods: Pizza and sushi

Music: Pop

Favorite athlete: Juju Smith-Schuster

In high school Devin was an all-conference punter. He also lettered in lacrosse, made playoffs every year and won the WPIAL championship his junior year, and finished in second his senior year. He was the offensive MVP of his lacrosse team junior year. So far in college in 11 games, he has 4 goals and 6 assists; 10 points totals. Devin plans to go into cancer research for a few years, and then go to medical school.

Devin had a great experience this past weekend being in Florida for an NCAA convention. As SAAC president he voted on new rules and voice his opinion on some issues at the convention. In his free time he went to Disney springs. He also went to the pro bowl and met Juju Smith-Schuster as well as other NFL players. For the first day at the honors dinner he also got to meet Mia Hamm a women's world cup champion, Shakeem Griffen a current NFL player for the Seattle Seahawks and Ben Reeves a college lacrosse player at Yale.