User:Waltertheorca/sandbox

Walter the Orca is the parody mascot of Brentwood Hills Student Ministries. He was raised on a youth group mascot farm in Crieve Hall, a suburb of Nashville, and his lifelong dream has always been to work for Robbie Forrester at Brentwood Hills.

The son of Carlos and Margaret the Orcas, he was named after famed preacher and evangelist Walt Leaver, whom he lists as one of his childhood heroes, along with Jonathan Seamon, Josh Allen and Tom Hunt.

In 2008, after graduating from orca high school he took a gap year in which he swam through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean where he met up with his cousin Willy, the star of the 1993 family drama film "Free Willy."

After returning to Nashville he applied for undergraduate admissions to Lipscomb, Harding, Freed-Hardeman, Abilene Christian University, and Pepperdine. Because he was an orca he he was denied admission and instead went to the Gertie the Whale School of Youth Group Mascots, where he studied under the late Professor Gertie The Whale and earned a Master of Mascotting while lettering on the school's swim team.

In 2013 his life long dream came true when an opening came available at Brentwood Hills Student Ministries to be their parody mascot.

In addition to tweeting witty comments, he enjoys church league basketball games, eating tacos, I am Second videos, and going to church camp.