{"id":37518,"date":"2016-09-07T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=37518"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T20:44:15","slug":"uwm-alum-nick-viall-picked-season-bachelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-alum-nick-viall-picked-season-bachelor\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM alum Nick Viall picked to be &#8216;The Bachelor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Viall, a UWM alum, will\u00a0star in the next season of\u00a0the reality TV show \u201cThe Bachelor,\u201d starting in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Viall, who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting from UWM in 2004, is getting to be a regular in the \u201cBachelor\u201d universe. He competed on \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d in 2014 and 2015, finishing as a runner-up both times. He was also featured on the third season of the reality show \u201cBachelor in Paradise,\u201d which just wrapped up. (He broke up with his girlfriend on that show in the last episode.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be great, I think it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/the-bachelor\/news\/updates\/nick-viall-bachelor-season-21-2017\" target=\"_blank\">he said when his selection was announced<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m very nervous, but I can\u2019t be more excited about the possibility of it actually working out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viall is the second oldest of 11 siblings and grew up in Waukesha, graduating from Waukesha North High School.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37521\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37521 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2016\/09\/nick-viall-track-250x300-250x300.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Viall was captain of the UWM track team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At UWM, he was captain of the track team, running one leg of the 4&#215;800 meter relay in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mkepanthers.com\/custompages\/MTF\/outdoor-records-m.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">then-school record time<\/a> of 7:33.94. \u00a0(His sister, Maria Viall, was also a UWM athlete, playing basketball.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Viall) has just become that perennial, second-place guy who wants to find love and is as sincere, if not more sincere, than anybody about finding it,\u201d show host Chris Harrison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/bachelor-why-chris-harrison-picked-nick-viall-find-love\" target=\"_blank\">told People magazine<\/a>. \u201cIt&#8217;s about giving him his chance to find love. 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