Maryland
Fresh Faces for Fall 2024
Evelyn Murphy
For multisport athlete Evelyn Murphy, fueling up for games often meant downing a protein bar packed with added sugar. “The more I looked around, I realized, ‘Oh my gosh, so many of these health food products are not as good as they’re advertised to be,’” she said. Now, she’s aiming to hit the sweet spot with simple, natural ingredients through her energy bites company, Energy by Evelyn. She took a gap year after high school to launch the business, starting out by cooking up the 1-ounce morsels in her Easton, Md., home, with flavors including chocolate, lemon ginger, and peanut butter and jelly. Once she’d made her first sales, she paid her parents, the owners of Smith Island Baking Co., a fraction of her profits to move production to their Crisfield, Md., facility. Now, the economics major and Banneker/Key scholar is excited to learn more about running a company from peers with similar goals, and she’s already been in touch with coaches and nutritionists on campus to bolster her business.