The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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inside michigan athletics Student-Athlete Of The Month Men's Gymnastics Junior A.J. Schottstaedt When A.J Schottstaedt was a senior pus, he didn't know what field suited at St. Vincent De Paul in Petaluma, him best. Calif., in 2010, the Michigan men's "I didn't know exactly what I wanted gymnastics team won its first national to do as undergrad, but I thought a lot championship since 1999. about neuroscience at first, because He proved why he decided to sign that is very interesting to me," he said. his letter of intent for Michigan in the With his fascination with the brain, first place. For him, the university was Schottstaedt took a different route, the quintessendeclaring a doutial intersection ble major in celluof athletics and lar and molecular academics. biology and psy"I wanted to chology. find somewhere "I looked into with the best the junction academic and of biology and best sport teams," psychology, Schottstaedt said. and I realized "Michigan, as an that I wanted to athletic departdouble-major in ment, is phenomthose," he said. "I enal, and they made that decitreat their teams sion as a sophovery well. Our Schottstaedt is a double major in cellular more. gym is one of the and molecular biology and psychology, and "I find psycholbest of any of the he is interested in how the two fields are ogy very interestconnected. various Division photo courtesy ing, studying the michigan athletic media relations mind and how I schools. But it also has a great academic profile, and and why people interact, but I also it has a medical program that I can wanted the biology background for consider right here, and a hospital on medical school, so I can eventually campus where I can work and learn become a doctor." more about my future intended field." Schottstaedt is thankful for the deciSchottstaedt knew from a young sion, because balancing the two maage that he wanted to go into medi- jors has given him an insight into how cine. the two fields connect. After his first year and a half on cam"The biology side of it is about the