Category Stories: Student Athletes
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How to Play Pick Up Like a Porteño
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I wasn’t in Buenos Aires 24 hours before I was being stared in the face by a massive plate of french fries covered in melted cheddar and bacon. In the back of my head, I heard the faint beeping of the YoYo Intermittent Recovery Test (a common fitness test used to test athletes on their…
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D.U.D.E.
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It was cold…and wet…and windy. Of course. But, it was still ultimate. By the time I reached Dunedin, New Zealand, I had been playing high-level college competitive ultimate frisbee for two years. In that time, I had gone to College Division 1 Nationals once and travelled across the country a few times to compete at…
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5 Tips for Staying Fit Abroad
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It seems when you find a routine that works, it gets completely switched up on you. Like many other people, I was reluctant to change when I got to Dublin. The first thing I did when I arrived to IFSA-Butler orientation was sign up online for a gym membership. The second day I was still…
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An Athlete Abroad
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The light from my computer reflects off of my glasses. My eyes are scanning the page at breakneck speed. Click, click, click, my fingers fly across the keyboard and furiously venture deeper into the virtual realm. Italy, England, Greece, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, and many more countries are listed in my laptop’s history. I need to go to…
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How Golf Defined My Experience in Scotland
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The bus left our hotel in Edinburgh where we had our orientation bright and early that morning. Within an hour, my new friends and I were pulling into the quaint town of St Andrews, but it wasn’t the town I had travelled so far to see. Ruth, our lovely Program Director, took us on an…
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