BYUSA

Tyler Hornibrook
Assistant to the President: Communications 

Hometown: Tualatin, OR

Major: Organizational Behavior

Minor: None  

Favorite Hobbies: Spending time with my wife, reading, football, basketball, biking, and being with family and friends.

Favorite Principle: "It is the consummate truth of life that you alter your destiny by altering your thoughts. The mind is your most crucial resource, your crowning asset, your ultimate arena of battle. If you will master the power of your mind, you may do or be whatsoever you will."
 
Why are you at BYUSA? "Before I joined BYUSA I felt as though I went to BYU but was not a part of BYU. Now that I’m involved, I feel much more connected with the university."

Favorite Quote(s): "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor... if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." -Anonymous

Chris Harker
Executive Director of Marketing 

Hometown: Okotoks, AB, Canada

Major: Business Management

Minor: Pre-dental

Favorite Hobbies: Cars, 80s dancing/music, dating, snow boarding, and video editing.
 
Favorite Principle: A positive mindset will attract positive results.
 
Why are you at BYUSA? "I felt BYUSA was a wonderful way to open the doors to a career in marketing while at the same time giving meaningful service."

Favorite Quote(s): "My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it." -Arnold Schwarzenegger

Summer Price
Executive Director of Media Relations 

Hometown: Eagle, ID

Major: Elementary Education

Minor: None

Favorite Hobbies: Family, girls nights, running, kick-boxing, skiing.  

Favorite Principle: Principles of speed, power, etc. as used by Bruce Lee (Wing chun do gung fu).
 
Why are you at BYUSA? "BYUSA is an amazing opportunity to serve, associate with incredible people and assist in the development of divine centered leaders."

Favorite Quote(s): "...Let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power, and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance to see the salvation of God and for his arm to be revealed." D&C 123:17 - AKA : Do your best!

Sophie Barth
Executive Director of Human Relations 

Hometown: Bountiful, UT

Major: Communications: Public Relations

Minor: Editing

Favorite Hobbies: Sports, reading, dancing, and sports.
 
Favorite Principle: You can never have too many bouncy balls. They make people happy.
 
Why are you at BYUSA? "I began by wanting to serve the students and be involved. Now, I do it because I want to help the students, and I believe in the organization."

Favorite Quote(s): "Happiness is a choice." -Vaughn Worthen

"The reason we go from one place to another is to see what's in between." –Norton Juster, The Phaton Tolbooth

"We will not go quietly into the night. We will not go down without a fight. We will live on!" -Bill Pullman, Independence Day 

Jed Kendall
Executive Director of Human Relations 

Hometown: Nephi, UT

Major: Biology  

Minor: Chemistry, Honors  

Favorite Hobbies: Playing sports, outdoors, learning, watching college football, country dancing.
 
Favorite Principle: Reap what you sow.
 
Why are you at BYUSA? "To develop leadership skills, and to contribute to the BYU community." 

Favorite Quote(s): "Never ever give up." - Winston Churchill

Austin Beckham
Assistant to the Vice President of Communications 

Hometown: Orem, UT  

Major: Neuroscience  

Minor: Business  

Favorite Hobbies: Innovating, neologism, entreprenuership, philosophizing, observing, dating, guitar playing, song writing, graphic designing, playing football, basketball, Frisbee, volleyball, pool, and ping-pong, long boarding and bowling. (This is not necessarily listed in any particular order.)
 
Favorite Principle: Life is a balance.

Why are you at BYUSA? "I believe I become like the people I surround myself with. Therefore, by surrounding myself with the students and facilty at BYUSA, who are excellent leaders in many different ways, I feel I can become an excellent leader myself."

Favorite Quote(s): "Intelligence is the great emancipator, and ignorance is the chief agency of destruction. Sin, inefficiency, and disease are merely manifestations of ignorance. The overcoming of these is the triumph of education and the vindication of the power of intelligence." -Franklin S. Harris in 1921, when he was inaugurated as president of Brigham Young University.

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." –Bruce Barton

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -Vincent T. Lombardi