This week, Nick Welden traveled to Chesterton, Indiana with the Loyola men’s golf team to compete at the Crusader Collegiate tournament. The tournament was nearly 1,100 miles from where he was playing just two years ago — San Jose, Texas.
Welden is from Birmingham, Alabama and originally attended St. Mary’s University, located just outside San Jose, for his first year of college. After the fall semester, he decided to transfer to Loyola, because he said he valued finding a college that would provide him a Jesuit education and a new life experience outside of the South.
Welden said he decided on Loyola due to the city resources and life experience the school offers.