Lu Vail, now a senior honors student in family social science, remembers, as a young girl, mysterious jars filled with "barky and pickled stuff" sitting on top of a shelf in her grandmother's pantry. Vail's...

With three older brothers in the neighborhood wrestling program, it was a natural move for Billy Pierce to join them on the mat at the age of five. "He didn't have a clue" in the beginning, said his father,...