Manuel Garcia

If you have attended Texas State for a couple of years, then you have probably noticed a man with long blond hair gliding through the quad on a rip-stick. Whether he is zooming down the Art Building or barreling down the ramps of the Quad, he is surely a sight to see. Manuel Garcia has more in this Bobcat Update.

It's a bird.
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It's a plane.
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No. It's the Rip-Stick Guy -- a Biochemist major and Senior at Texas State University, also known as Connor Tremallo.
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Tremallo says he chose to come to Texas State because it was the most beautiful campus he had ever seen.
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Tremallo says that after graduation he wants to do research for drug development to find out what drugs are good for certain diseases.
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He has his sights on a company titled M.A.P.P.S.where he hopes to pursue his research.
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The rip-stick is Tremallo's specialty.
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Tremallo has been skating for five years and says he has been rip-sticking since he started college.
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He says rip-sticking gives him a freedom that he doesn't get anywhere else.
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Tremallo says rip-sticking can be hazardous.
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Speed is part of the thrill.
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Regardless of what students think of him, Tremallo says that rip-stiking is his life. For Bobcat Update I'm Manuel Garcia.