June 6, 2012

By Gregg Bell UW Director of Writing Click here to receive Gregg Bell Unleashed via email each week.

SEATTLE - One of the best days of Washington safety Greg Walker's 22 years on Earth wasn't necessarily playing in the Holiday Bowl in December 2010, the Huskies' first postseason game in eight years. It wasn't starting his first college game as a freshman in September 2009, against LSU on national television at Husky Stadium.

It was March 2, 2012. That day, Washington's special teams player of the year for 2010 and `11 got his letter of acceptance from the fiercely selective Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

"One of the happiest days of my entire life," Walker told me with pride over the phone Tuesday morning.

That was just before he administered his final test as a biology teaching assistant. Saturday, he will walk in graduation with his fellow UW seniors at CenturyLink Field.

Walker could have returned for a fifth, redshirt-senior season of football. Instead, on August 9 he will begin orientation in medical school and start his journey to be a orthopedist or neurologist.

"Working with nerves, nerve endings and the central nervous system, that is `tight,'" Walker says.

So is this: Brown's Alpert Medical School is one of the most selective medical schools in the country. It reportedly has an acceptance rate of 3.2 percent of all applicants, enrolling approximately 120 students per class.

And this Husky is one of them.

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