One reason Spencer Liddic ’12 considered Muhlenberg as a high school athlete was the opportunity to make an impact on a Division III program as a first-year student — and make an impact he did. Liddic, who received an All-Centennial Conference honorable mention as a freshman and first-team honors as a sophomore, junior and senior, is the only Muhlenberg men’s basketball player ever recognized on the All-CC team all four years. He collected 1,015 career rebounds and is still the all-time leading rebounder in CC history. He will be inducted into the Muhlenberg Athletic Hall of Fame next spring.
Another draw was the College’s Business Program, with its option to choose a concentration in entrepreneurship. Liddic grew up in an enterprising family, and he started his own lawn-care business as a kid: “My goal was always someday to work for myself and to grow a business,” says Liddic, who was a double major in business administration and finance.
His time at Muhlenberg helped him master the delicate balance of academics, athletics and a social life. By his senior year, he was ready to add another component to the mix: his first rental property. Today, as president and founder of Summit Residential, he manages about 150 apartments in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, region and coordinates with five contractors who help him complete renovations and repairs and handle his tenants’ day-to-day needs.
“I’ll hear a lot of people say, ‘I don’t have enough time for something.’ To me, instead of ‘I don’t have time,’ it’s ‘I haven’t prioritized that time.’ If you have good time management skills, it’s incredible how much time there is in a day to get work done.”
—Spencer Liddic ’12
While Liddic no longer plays, he is working to resume a relationship with Muhlenberg’s men’s basketball team that lapsed during the pandemic and is also volunteering as an assistant coach at his former high school. Physical activity continues to play an important role in his life, though: “I could have a bad day at work — my contractors are calling me, my tenants are calling me, there’s issues all over the place — and I don’t always go to ‘put the fires out’ right away,” he says. “A lot of times I’ll go for a run or I’ll go to the gym. You can usually make a better decision after that.”