Alexis Bates

Position:
Novice
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Fayetteville, N.C.
High School:
Douglas Byrd

Considering a major in child development ... Is a Pogue Scholar and recipient of a Teaching Fellows Scholarship ... Plays intramural basketball and is a photographer for Virtuous Woman magazine, a campus publication ... Member of Champions for Christ

Before UNC: At Douglas Byrd High School, played varsity volleyball and junior varsity basketball ... Member of the varsity cheerleading squad ... Served as class president and student body president ... Also president of National Honor Society ... Future Business Leaders of America secretary

More on Bates: Born Alexis Dolor Bates on July 2, 1986, in Fayetteville, N.C. ... Daughter of Lisa Bates ... Has four younger siblings: Mercedes (15), Michael (13), Jeremiah (11) and Flower (2) ... Favorite pastimes are eating, laughing and photography ... Dream job is to be a child psychologist ... Five years after graduation, sees herself attending graduate school and teaching kindergarteners ... Athlete she most admires is Michael Jordan ... Best moment of her athletic career has been racing at the Head of the Chattahoochee in the fall of 2004 ... Favorite sport besides rowing is basketball ... Something few people know about her is that sometime when she's very tired, she talks in her sleep ... Plans to learn Spanish and sign language and to take piano lessons

Bates on coxing: "Coxing has definitely been a challenge, but I have learned many things that I will be able to use in life."