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When Hope Cain stood on the pitchers mound during her four-year softball career at the University of Mobile,sheknew my teammates always had my back. When I stood on the mound, I knew everyone behind me was there to work as a team and allow us to succeed as a team.<\/p>\n
Her team of University of Mobile faculty, coaches and staff had her back, as well. The softball standout from Hartselle was accepted to two medicalschools andwasoffered an $80,000 scholarship. When she starts this fall at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine, its because the support of professors like Dr. Randy Craig helped her realize her true passion to become a physician.<\/p>\n
The University of Mobile has allowed me to follow my dream of playing college softball, strengthen my faith and help me understand what I was called to do in my life, she said.<\/p>\n
A member of the UM Class of 2020, Cain earned a Bachelor of Science in pre-health biology.<\/p>\n
The Christian university in Mobile is one of the few in the nation where undergraduate students like Cain can have hands-on learning experiences in a nationallyaccredited cadaver lab. UM studentstake part inas much as two full semesters of training on actual human specimens a tremendous benefit for students heading to medical school.<\/p>\n
They also have small classes with professors like Craig, professor of biology and chair of the Department of Natural Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. A veterinary surgeon withmore thanthree decades of experience, Craig continues to perform complex surgeries students are invited to observe.<\/p>\n
Whether pre-health students arepursuingcareers as physicians, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians or researchers, the universitys faculty and curriculum will prepare them accordingly, Craig said.<\/p>\n
A softball standout who was named the softball scholar-athlete of the year for the SSAC and honorable mention All-American for the NAIA for the 2019 season, Cain took advantage of the opportunities a small campus offers for students to become involved in a variety of activities. During her college career she was a peer leader, tutorandmember of Beta Chi. Sheserved on the Student Leadership Council and was president of the universitys chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Society, as well.<\/p>\n
Cainsaid attending the University of Mobile helped her further understand how to treat people with the Christ-like attitude her parents had taught her.<\/p>\n
I also believe that by going to a Christian school, I have received a greater understanding and appreciation of how detailed and the perfect way that God created all of us, Cain added.When I practice medicine, I want to remember that it is God who gave me and my fellow doctors the abilities we have and that He is the ultimate healer and physician.<\/p>\n
Cain is a member of Promise Land Church in Hartselle, where her father, Greg Cain, is pastor.<\/p>\n
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