{"57689":{"#nid":"57689","#data":{"type":"news","title":"She\u0027s a Winner: Lynn Houston Aims High","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost people will agree that being a full time engineering student is enough to keep you busy. Not Lynn Houston, IE 1999, MSIE 2000. She split her student years winning accolades on the track as well as in the classroom. This summer she competed at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field trials, tying for seventh in the high jump. Lynn may not have made it to Sydney, but she did make everyone at Georgia Tech proud of her accomplishments.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELynn\u0027s career at Georgia Tech was impressive, to say the least. She graduated with highest honors and received a George Fellowship for her graduate work. She was also ACC women\u0027s high jump champion four times, Georgia\u0027s NCAA Woman of the Year, and All-American in high jump. She was on the ACC Honor Roll from 1994-1999, and received the ACC\u0027s James Weaver Corrigan Post Graduate Scholarship. Georgia Tech honored her with the highly prestigious \u0022Total Person Award.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELynn\u0027s interest in industrial engineering and logistics grew out of her exposure to her parent\u0027s trucking business. She\u0027s interested in consulting, and now that her Olympic goal is on hold, she\u0027s looking for work. But her jumping career is still very much on her mind. \u0022The trials were the biggest competition I\u0027ve been to, and I\u0027m not ready to give it up yet,\u0022 she says.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite her impressive collegiate record, Lynn says she didn\u0027t have many athletic or academic scholarship offers out of high school. Georgia Tech attracted her because of its quality as well as the proximity to her parents in Knoxville, and track quickly became an essential part of her Institute life. \u0022I wouldn\u0027t have been as disciplined in my academics without the track,\u0022 she says. \u0022Being part of that experience made me feel that I accomplished so much more.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2001-03-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:35","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2001-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2001-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}