Candice Woodcock was born and raised in Fayetteville,
North Carolina. She graduated from Terry Sanford High
School where she was president of her class and captain of
the soccer and cross country teams. She received a perfect
score on the math portion of her SATs.
Woodcock won full merit scholarships to both the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke
University. She accepted the Morehead Scholarship to
attend UNC-Chapel Hill and eventually received her
Bachelor of Science Degree in biology and psychology with
a minor in chemistry.
SURVIVOR: AFRICA inspired Woodcock to do service work in
Africa. Following her freshman year of college, she spent
10 and a half weeks living in a mud hut with a tribal
family in the western highlands of Kenya. She taught
primary and secondary school in the village and designed
her own service project where she ran a clinic that
distributed over 700 pairs of eyeglasses that had been
donated by parties in the United States. Inspired by her
work in Kenya, Woodcock became the fundraising director
and then executive director of Students for Students
International, a completely student-run, non-profit
organization at UNC-Chapel Hill that gives scholarships to
students in Zimbabwe and Tanzania. Woodcock also spent a
summer studying health care in Chile and Peru and another
summer splitting her time between work at the Cancer
Clinic at George Washington University Hospital and La
Clinica del Pueblo, a free Latino clinic in Washington,
D.C.
After graduation, Woodcock decided to take a year off
before continuing her studies. She worked full-time for
six months as an Assistant Director of Clinical Trials and
as a Director of External Practice Development for an
ophthalmology practice, and then part-time for the
following six months. She has just begun graduate school
at Georgetown University to attain a Master's Degree in
physiology and biophysics. She then plans to attend
medical school. She hopes to use her medical degree to do
service work in developing countries and also in
underserved areas of the U.S.
Woodcock enjoys spending time with her family and friends,
working out, playing sports, being in the water and
playing with her dog, Louis James.
Woodcock currently resides in Washington, D.C. Her birth
date is November 12, 1982.
Candice
Woodcock - Favorites
Colors - Green
Scents - Leap by the Body Shop
Flowers - Azalea, dogwood, magnolia
Board Games - Guess Who?, Cranium
Video Games - Super Mario Brothers 2, Hearts
Sports to Play - Watersports (water skiing, wakeboarding, wake
surfing), flag football, indoor/outdoor soccer
Sports Teams - Tarheels
Outdoor Activities - Rock climbing, rafting, kayaking, camping,
hiking, snow and water skiing
TV Shows - SURVIVOR, The Colbert Report, 24, The Office, Bob Ross:
The Joy of Painting
Movies - Sin City, Crash, Armageddon, Capote, Scarface, The Goonies,
The Princess Bride, The Notebook, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
movies, The Lion King, Finding Neverland
Actors - Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp, Clive Owen
Actresses - Rachel McAdams, Angelina Jolie
Music - 80s
Magazines - People, Newsweek, Us Weekly
Books/Authors - To Kill a Mockingbird
Cereals - Lucky Charms
Fruits - Peach, strawberry, banana
Snack Foods - SunChips
Cookies - Double Stuf Oreos
Candy Bars - Hershey's with almonds
Alcoholic Drinks - Redbull and vodka
Non-Alcoholic - No favorite
