It's fair to say alum Claire Goodill has covered some ground in the 15 years since she attended WMS. She's lived in five cities in the last nine years, including a recent move to Los Angeles. Her work for ClassPass - a fitness class subscription service - literally keeps her on the move. Even in her free time, Claire lists "taking tons of workout classes" among her favorite pastimes.

Claire as a sixth-grader in 2003

Before discovering her flair for fitness, Claire - who graduated from WMS in 2003 - was a student at Tulane University in New Orleans (her first stop after leaving Wilmington), where she studied communications and fell in love with jazz funk music. At Tulane, Claire was involved with the Communication Majors Society - first as treasurer and later as president. She was also a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and served as a campus marketing representative for Universal Pictures. After graduating in 2013, Claire headed north to New York City (city #2) to dabble in public relations (PR) and celebrity management. She landed a job working for model and TV personality Heidi Klum through Full Picture, a PR and brand management agency.

After just one year in "the industry," Claire quickly found her passion for fitness and technology, and left the celebrity management circuit to join the ClassPass start-up team. 

"I reached out to ClassPass when there were only a few employees working there and asked if they'd bring me in for an interview," she said. "One thing led to the next and they created a role for me on their customer experience team."

ClassPass soon moved Claire from New York to San Francisco (city #3), and later to London (city #4). She worked her way up to assistant manager before taking on the general manager position for a new ClassPass project in Los Angeles.

After graduating from WMS, Claire attended Wilmington Friends School for middle and high school. During her school years, she enjoyed competitive gymnastics as well as acting and dancing in school theater productions. One of her fondest WMS memories is of playing the role of Oliver and singing her first solos, "Where is the Love?" And she also remembers rallying her classmates to help her paint rocks and shells to sell to school parents to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

When she's not busy at work or attending fitness classes, you can find Claire rediscovering the piano (which she hasn't played since her time at WMS!) and zipping up to Oregon to visit her new nephew - the son of her sister, Libbie, who graduated from WMS in 2000.

After calling five different cities home since she left Wilmington, does she have a clear favorite?

"I've been in L.A. three months. It's hard to pick a favorite," she said. "Probably New Orleans!"