Wade Baldwin serves as Vanderbilt's 'challenger'

Source: sports.usatoday.com --- Friday, December 25, 2015
Current Vanderbilt Basketball player Wade Baldwin IV, center, poses with father Wade III and mother Monica after winning a high school championship. By the time 16-year-old Wade Baldwin IV was challenged to beat full-fledged FBI agents in a five-mile obstacle course at a training academy, he had learned to properly channel his anger.                                   And when he beat the agents — all of them — about an hour later, he proved his chip-on-the-shoulder attitude could produce winning results. Vanderbilt’s Wade Baldwin (4) finishes a dunk in an overtime win over Stony Brook on Nov. 19. Three years later, Vanderbilt Basketball is now relying on Baldwin, a hard-nosed sophomore point guard and the son of an FBI and a DEA agent, to guide the Commodores back among the SEC’s elite. And he certainly has his own style of doing that. “Different people have different leadership roles on our team. I am the challenger,” Baldwin said. “I don’t think we have another person on this team that can challenge another player better than I can.” Baldwin certainly speaks his mind when we wants to win so badly. Sometimes that means calling out a teammate. At least once his excitement resulted in an on-court clash with his coach on national TV. And in less-visible situations, Baldwin has sometimes gone overboard in tossing a video game controller across a dorm room, an occurrence that still makes laid-back roommate Matthew Fisher-Davis chuckl ...

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