Get to know Trevecca’s 2025 homecoming king finalists

By Michelle Loria Alvarado

Executive Editor

One Trevecca male will represent Trevecca at all official homecoming events as the 2025 Trevecca Homecoming King.

Executive Editor Michelle Loria Alvarado interviewed the three homecoming king finalists.

After two rounds of voting, three finalists remain. The last round for homecoming voting was released on Friday, October 24, in the afternoon and will close tonight, Tuesday, October 28, at 11:59 p.m.

TJ Weeks

Loria Alvarado: Please introduce yourself with your name, major, and hometown.

Weeks: I’m TJ Weeks. I am a biology major and I am from Kokomo, Indiana.

Loria Alvarado: How has your experience at Trevecca shape who you are today, both personally and professionally?

Weeks: So my experience at Trevecca has really been about the community here, so where I grew up, there weren’t very many Christians all about, and so it was kind of hard to almost stick out in the way I did. And so then coming to Trevecca, I found a friend group and a community instantly who helped build me up and kind of shape me into the Christian man, I am today. And so Trevecca has kind of pushed me towards that ability to be able to like stand out in the world and be okay with it and be a Christian and a shining light to others, and so now it has also pushed me towards my professional goals where I plan to become a physician’s assistant or PA and kind of share Gods love with others in that aspect.

Photo provided by TJ Weeks

Loria Alvarado: Who or what has had the biggest impact on your journey at Trevecca, and why?

Weeks: I would say, the biggest impact has really been just my friend group. Like I said, I didn’t have very many Christian friends growing up, and so coming here I just got the ability to meet a couple guys like Isaac Reif, Ethan Blades, Dawson Bush, Connor Benson, Mason Cross, that really have like shaped who I have become. There’s a saying that you are the conglomerate of the five people you spend the most time with and those guys have become my 5 closest friends and they have really pushed me in closer relationship with God and just built me into who I am today.

Loria Alvarado: What does being part of the Trevecca community mean to you and how have you contributed to it?

Weeks: Being part of the Trevecca community is really something that’s so special. It’s something that you don’t get in a lot of other college aspects. I have some sisters who are in college, and so I get to go and see their university lifestyle, and you just don’t feel the love on their campus that you do at Trevecca’s campus. One thing that’s so special here is about, like how you can just know everyone, sometimes I’ll be walking down the street and a car will stop, and they’ll be like, ‘Hey, get in, we’re going somewhere,’ and I always jump in, because that’s just the way Trevecca is, everyone is friends, everyone is community, and it’s so fun to just be a part of that.

Loria Alvarado: If you could give one piece of advice to incoming students, what would it be?

Weeks: If I give one piece of advice, I would just say, get involved. Trevecca has so many opportunities to just be a part of something, whether that’s being a peer mentor like I have been for the past 3 years, or you know, joining the musical like I did this year or doing intramural sports or being a part of SGA. There are so many opportunities to get involved on campus, and just have fun. Trevecca really likes to show that we are a community that loves to just be involved and be together, and I think that that’s how you can get the most out of Trevecca, it’s if you go and be part of that community.

Loria Alvarado: What legacy or message do you hope to leave behind when you graduate?

Weeks: So for that, I would just say the main thing I want to leave behind is a spirit of kindness. If someone were to remember me, I’d want them to remember how much I smiled, how much I laughed, how much I really just enjoyed being here. I would want people to know that I came every day with a smile and tried to really bring the most positive outlook to life that I always could. I would say that my favorite thing on campus is walking around and I looked to like go on runs at the end of the night and I get to see people all across campus, and I just get to smile and wave at them. And I think that that’s such a cool thing to just be able to share love with the community.

Loria Alvarado: If you were a dessert, what would you be?

Weeks: If I was a dessert, I think I would be an orange dreamsicle cuz I got red hair and those things taste awesome.

Tyler Fuller

Loria Alvarado: Please introduce yourself with your name, major and hometown.

Fuller: My name is Tyler Fuller. I major in accounting, and my hometown is Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Loria Alvarado: How has your experience at Trevecca shaped who you are today, both personally and professionally?

Fuller: I would say that my experience at Trevecca has shaped how I am personally. I feel more outgoing and more available and willing to talk to people. I would say, communication with people. I used to not like want to talk to people almost like an introvert, but now, I’m most definitely an extrovert, and I love talking to people and everything. I think it has to do with certain classes. In business communication class I had a good book, had a couple good books about communication. I’d say in a professional way, that too as well, just being able to communicate with people and feeling comfortable.

Photo provided by Tyler Fuller

Loria Alvarado: Who or what has had the biggest impact on your journey at Trevecca, and why?

Fuller: I would say, honestly probably friends and professors, just kind of as a whole each group separately. They both have pushed me in a bunch of different ways. Professors, academically to try and do better and then academic sense, and always want to work harder. Then friends as well, I would say they’ve pushed me in a lot of different ways, and they’d probably have the biggest impact.

Loria Alvarado: What does being part of the Trevecca community mean to you, and how have you contributed to it?

Fuller: I would say, what it means being a part of the Trevecca community is showing up for your neighbors and just being the friendly face to people. I don’t know how have I contributed, I guess trying my best to be a friendly face to people and try and be easy to talk to whoever wants to talk.

Loria Alvarado: If you could give one piece of advice to incoming students, what would it be?

Fuller: I would say, don’t be afraid to be outgoing. Everyone’s friendlier than they seem. And don’t let one bad interaction stop you from having more interactions with other people. Just don’t be afraid to talk to people. Make new friends and learn from those people that you meet because you can learn something from everyone.

Loria Alvarado: What legacy or message do you hope to leave behind when you graduate?

Fuller: I’ll say follower of Christ.

Loria Alvarado: If you were a dessert, what would you be?

Fuller: If I was a dessert, I would be one of the desserts those people make on TikTok, and they just throw a ton of random stuff in it all, and make this huge mess because I’m a little bit of everything.

Jeremiah Carlton

Loria Alvarado: Please introduce yourself with your name, major, and hometown.

Carlton: My name is Jeremiah Carlton, and I’m a religion major with focus and pastoral ministry. I’m also from Eagleville, Tennessee.

Loria Alvarado: How has your experience at Trevecca shaped who you are today, both personally and professionally?

Carlton: I guess there’s many ways I’ve grown at being at Trevecca, but I’ve always appreciated how a lot of the staff and the people who just do their jobs on campus do it with love and with a lot of heart into it. They really put their heart into their jobs, and purpose behind what they do. Just for me personally, you could say with “Esse Quam Videri”, it’s to be rather than to seem. I just want to be able to do that in my life as well, and putting my heart into into what I do, and just being passionate about it. And trying to show people love at the same time.

Photo provided by Jeremiah Carlton

Loria Alvarado: Who or what has had the biggest impact on your journey at Trevecca, and why?

Carlton: There’s a lot of people who have impacted my journey. I would definitely say it’s between the SGA and my religion professors, and that’s just to name a few. They’ve always been super graceful, and I appreciate that even the academics is extremely important to them. They care the most about you just growing as a human being. They have been the most formational for me in that way.

Loria Alvarado: What does being part of the Trevecca community mean to you, and how have you contributed to it?

Carlton: Well, I’m not nazarene, so it honestly was a big thing, and being such a big part of the community for me. I felt very blessed to be able to contribute as a chaplain for 4 years, with this being my fourth, but regardless of denominations, we’re people of Christ. We are trying to love others, so the community has given me a place to do that and it’s always meant a lot to me.

Loria Alvarado: If you could give one piece of advice to incoming students, what would it be?

Carlton: The piece of advice I’d give them is really to, no matter who you meet, no matter who you talk to, it’s important how you carry yourself, and giving them a smile, and being a listening ear. I think those are just little things of being like Christ and in that, I think the Lord will take care of you with all of your challenges throughout college, but also your life. So trust him in that and continue to trust him throughout all of your stresses and worries throughout college.

Loria Alvarado: What legacy or message do you hope to leave behind when you graduate?

Carlton: I’ve thought about this a few different times especially as I preach now and chapel and stuff, that definitely crosses my mind every time. But what legacy or what message am I truly leaving? Overall, I hope people can be so full of the love of God that they can just spread that onto others, and spread that hope to the world. And that we can be wrestles when that love overflows, because I think it changes everything.

Loria Alvarado: If you were a dessert, what would you be?

Carlton: I’ll be a Mango Cheesecake. I’m very much a feeler person, so that is part of why I chose that. It’s also one of my favorites. Cheesecake is just sweet a little savory, it’s got a lot of complexities to it, and then mango is just the cherry on top, you know, and it’s also kind of like a Filipino thing.

To vote for this year’s homecoming king, you can click here.