Category Stories: Student Athletes
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Why You Need to Play Sports While Studying Abroad
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Months before I left for my semester abroad in Valparaíso, Chile, I was standing before my university men’s ultimate frisbee team, explaining why I deserved to be captain for the next season. Everyone had the same question: Aren’t you going abroad? I assured my teammates that I was already in the process of contacting frisbee…
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Rely on Your Anchor: One Key to Adjusting Abroad
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Everyone has an anchor. An interest, hobby, activity, or passion that tethers them to comfort. Some people have had the same anchor their whole life, and some spend years figuring out what it is. These anchors are essential as a mental reset, no matter where you are or what emotions you are feeling. Navigating Culture…
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Finding Sports and Building Connection While Studying Abroad
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Diving in During Study Abroad One of the most frequently asked questions I heard when I decided to study abroad at University of St Andrews in Scotland was: Why St Andrews? My answer is simple: I wanted to find a place where the town enriched the university experience, a place where I could integrate into…
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Finding a New Identity as a Student Athlete
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Throughout my entire life, most of my best friends have been from soccer. I spent so much time playing soccer growing up, and made lifelong friends doing it. Coming into college as a soccer player, I had 30 built in friends. I never really had to put myself out there to make friends. My whole…
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Rugby Offers Opportunity to Improve Spanish Skills
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Ella Gianino discusses how practicing with the local White Wolves ruby team helped her overcome language barriers and experience an additional facet of the Heredia community. How did you get involved in rugby in Costa Rica?My host family and I usually go to the neighborhood park to play soccer in the evenings. It was at…
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Club Fairs Overrated? I Think Not!
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Sign Yourself Up, A Few Hundred Times When enrolling directly in a university, you are essentially starting out as a first-year student – at Oxford, this means you are included in “fresher” activities. While you do not need to participate in every activity geared towards first-year students, many of these events are quite useful. One…
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Running into a New Adventure: Two cross-country student-athletes on running and identity
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Quiet, runner: In middle and high school, I was often summed up in these two words. In the eyes of those who didn’t know me well, my reserved disposition and passion for running cross-country defined me. Throughout my first years of college, both of those identifiers have evolved. In my time abroad, I look forward…
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3 Reasons Student-Athletes Should Go Abroad
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As a student-athlete, I was very nervous to study abroad. For the last four years, I have been a part of the Mount Holyoke College swim team as a distance freestyler. I love my team and I had fears that I wouldn’t be able to perform as well as I wanted to upon my return.…
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Tips for Student Athletes Studying Abroad
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One of my worries about going abroad was how I was going to continue athletics in another country. I play on the women’s lacrosse team at my home university. Because lacrosse is a spring sport, we have a set plan of workouts to complete throughout the fall semester. The workouts consist of lifts in the…
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How to Study Abroad as a Student Athlete
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How to Study Abroad as a Student Athlete: 7 Tips from a College Volleyball Player Who Stayed in Shape Down Under I’ve always heard just how difficult it seems to be to study abroad as an athlete in college. Keeping up with workouts, missing off-season training and losing precious time with your coach have been…
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