Brennan Kirkpatrick attended Springer for grades 6-8, graduating in Springer's class of 2010. After his high school graduation at Purcell Marian high school in 2014, he attended John Carroll University in Cleveland studying Political Science. Brennan graduated with Honors in May 2018 from John Carroll, receiving the Kathleen Barber Scholastic Achievement award from the school of Political Science. In August 2018, he moved to Florida to begin a 6-year PhD program in Criminology at Florida State University. (3-26-19)