Had Ambrea Hobbs not discovered a University of West Florida T-shirt in an Arcadia thrift shop, the 20-year-old senior may never have attended the university.
But as fate had it, Hobbs chose UWF and this year was selected as one of the university’s first Rhodes Scholar nominees.
And though she wasn’t selected a 2025 Rhodes Scholar, Hobbs was one of 238 finalists out of an initial pool of 865 students from all over the United States…