“I hope to do strategy of some sort,” Wheeler says. “Hopefully analyze, maybe, economic conditions. Or military strategies. I’ll definitely use my background.”
“Also, maybe code-breaking or something like that,” he adds, “or engineering. There are so many different avenues.”
The coach knows it.
“He’s a tremendous student,” Walsh says. “Very conscious about his grades. And the fact that he could’ve had many other opportunities and my mind, and this is something he wants to do...”
Walsh’s voice trails off and comes to a stop.
“We’re hoping some day four or five years from now we’ll have somebody come in and we’ll say, ‘We’ve found us a Wheeler,’” Walsh says, smiling. “‘He’s just like Robby Wheeler.’”
For the team, and for the teammates, the more, the better.
—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu.