When driving around Northeast Ohio you would be hard pressed not to find landscaped businesses and homes that haven’t been beautified by Morel Landscaping. A $2M company that is growing every day, built by one of Trinity’s own while he was walking our halls, Rob Morel, a 2011 graduate.

As a freshman, under the mentoring and tutelage of his grandfather, they decided to buy a trailer together. Rob would store his lawn equipment in the trailer and his mom would drive him around to mow lawns to make money during that summer. He continued to do this until he was able to drive, and then he had the idea to hire a few of his Trinity friends. “We began to do more and more lawns,” he said. “We would work after school, and on weekends. We kept doing it when I started at John Carroll, and after I graduated I kept it going and it blossomed.”

Rob earned an accounting degree at JCU, but ultimately turned down job offers. “I liked to landscape but it wasn’t my passion, but when I realized I could own my business, work on the administration side of it and use my degree, that’s when it became fun and drove my passion.” He has found this is his love, but not because of the incredible success Morel Landscaping has had. “The greatest satisfaction for me is creating an environment that people can find success." For Rob and his team this is only the beginning, “We plan to be an $8M business in the next 8 years, have more than 50 people working for us and understand that landscaping can be a great career!”

He is truly grateful for what Trinity gave to him, and gives a lot of credit for his success to the development he received here through the academics, retreat program, and athletics. “I loved leading retreats at Trinity, being a part of the living stations of the cross. Building relationships that have lived on to this day. Trinity showed me what I think is my most important skill of showing love and compassion, and how to enrich the lives of other people by caring, and being a servant leader.”