- "I made VWC my No. 1 choice because of the small class sizes, the guaranteed acceptance to medical school, and of course, participating on the track team"
- Selected Virginia Wesleyan over the University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Commonwealth University, Emory & Henry College, and Hampden-Sydney College
Academic Accomplishments: Wesleyan Scholar.
Before VWC: Recorded a season-best discus distance of 90 feet, 11 inches as a senior and a season-best shot put distance of 31-5… Also competed in football… Football team captain as a senior… Rappahannock News Scholar Athlete of the Year 2013… Recipient of the 2013 track team's Leader Award… Also wrestled for Rappahannock County… Class Valedictorian… Mountain Vista Governor's School graduate… Senior Class president… National Honor Society member… National Society of High School Scholars member… Member of the Chester Gap Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company.
Personal: Son of Melissa and Andrew Hipple… Parents attended Penn State University… Has one older brother, Nicholas, and a sister, Elizabeth.
Get to Know Britton
- Enjoys listening to rock and spending vacation time at Bethany Beach
- Favorites include the book "Left Behind," the movie "Inception," and the TV series "Major Crimes"
- A fan of football's Brett Kiesel, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates
- Self-description in 10 words or less: "tough, clever, relaxed, juggernaut"
- My favorite aspect of being an athlete is: "the challenge of learning a new technique and competing with other dedicated athletes"
- The part of my game I've improved the most is: "my spin technique"
- My personal athletic goal at VWC is: "to learn how to throw the javelin and weight throw. I also would like to throw on a competitive level"
- If I could spend one day with a famous person from any time period it would be: "President Abraham Lincoln. He held the United States while he was in office and recaptured the Southern states in the Civil War. I believed that Reconstruction would have been more beneficial to the South if he had not be assassinated"
- It's the year 2030 and: "I will be an orthopedic surgeon repairing broker bones and injured joints."
- The most important advice I've received is: "it is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat" -- Theodore Roosevelt
