April Grant ‘02
Six Mile, S.C.
Alum sees connection between body, mind and spirit
An integral part of the job for certified personal trainer and Southern Wesleyan University alumna April Grant is to help her clients meet personal fitness goals by calling attention to their strengths.
Looking back on her years at SWU, April realized that her professors and coaches did the very same thing for her.
“That’s really what the professors at Southern Wesleyan do – they serve the students. They see gifts inside the students and they do their best to pull those things out,” April said. “I try to do that with the people I come in touch with, too. Each person has been blessed with certain gifts and qualities and potential that’s inside them, so I try to identify those things and pull them out of people. To be honest, that might be the one of the biggest things I try to do.”
“I feel that we can be safe and stay where we are or use the gifts inside of us that God has given us. To me wellness as a whole is important – personal training is one step in that – getting the body in line,” she added.
While at SWU, Grant made the GACC All-Conference softball team in 2001 and 2002, had a decorated senior season in 2002, was the team’s Most Valuable Player, GACC Player of the Year, and was named NFCA Second Team All-American. More recently, she was inducted into SWU’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
April is certified as a personal trainer by the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA). In addition to being a personal trainer at Alive Fitness in Clemson, she will soon join The Cliffs Communities as a wellness coach.