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By Larry Clow

The road to medical school for senior Jon Vore began with a concussion. A multi-sport athlete in high school, Vore took a hard hit on the field. One of the unexpected side-effects: a new fascination with medicine.

“I’d always been interested in science, but now I was curious about why I felt the way I did. I got hit in the head, so I’d ask, ‘Why is that causing me to throw up?’” Vore recalls. A sports medicine doctor in his hometown of Fishers, Indiana, explained the ins and outs of concussions, and Vore was hooked. “That was the spark. I thought that maybe medicine was the path for me.”

Vore will take the next step on that path when he begins his first semester at the Indiana University School of Medicine this fall. It’s a personal milestone that Vore says wouldn’t have been possible without his experience as a studentathlete at Butler.

“Athletics is one of the best teachers, in terms of how to prepare for life in general—not only learning how to work hard and prepare for something, but learning how to deal with failure,” says Vore, a pitcher with Butler Baseball.