Over the past month, Drake’s campus has been much emptier than the following week since the semester has gotten underway. Before the majority of Drake students returned from winter break, only a small portion of the student population was on campus during the first three weeks of January. Most of them were taking a J-Term course, although not all of them were focused on academics.
Many of the Drake’s athletic teams – including tennis, track and field, basketball and football – were required to return to campus early during the J-Term for mandatory practices and competitions.
One of those students was Vinny Gillespie, a freshman on the men’s tennis team.