Leading the Pride is a monthly podcast that focuses on accomplished Suomi College and Finlandia University alumni. This month’s guest is Matthew McLaughlin (‘17), who was one of the first graduates from Finlandia’s new Biology program. McLaughlin was also a graduate of the ROTC program, a four year hockey player and the Class of 2017 student speaker. He commissioned into the US Army as a second lieutenant after college and is currently utilizing the Health Professions Scholarship Program through the Army to attend medical school at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine. McLaughlin hopes to become an army medical officer after finishing medical school.

Listen as host, Olivia Myers, and McLaughlin talk about his decision to take a gap year, the challenges of getting into medical school and the struggles of finding a club hockey team to join in Idaho.