Gael Spotlight | Warrior Ethos in a Gael

The Concentric Wealth Management Gael Spotlight is a monthly feature story about Saint Mary's Athletics and a behind the scenes look at the Gaels.

MORAGA, Calif. — It's 4:00 am on a Monday. Most people are still nestled underneath their bedsheets trying to catch a few more hours of sleep before their workweek begins. Not Michael Lopez; he beat you too it. Lopez is already preparing for the first of five workouts on the day. That's right: on the day, not the week. That is the life of a student-athlete who is also enrolled in an ROTC program.

"It was a little stressful at times," Lopez said with a playful sigh. "People would always ask me 'how did you do it?' You have to cut some stuff out, but…