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Taylor Baird
02:00:08 PM
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OK, why don't we go ahead and start? I think we might have a few more people jumping in as we get started. Welcome everybody to this Swanee session on Swanee Athletics. We're really glad that you joined us here today and we've got a great panel of student athletes to answer your questions, to talk about their experiences here. As student athletes at Swanee couple of notes before we begin.
Um, there's a chat feature that you should see there on the left, so feel free if you would like to identify who you are to say, who you are, where you from an, what sport you compete in. Maybe that would be helpful.
Also, will be taking some questions here later, so if you want to be thinking about those, the chat is where you'll be able to enter those questions for us to answer later. So if you turned in questions beforehand, so we'll kind of dive into those early on. But let me introduce myself, I'm Jeff Heitzenrater. I work here in the Office of Admission. I've worked at Swanee for 30 years and for 21 of those years I coached the track and field on the cross country team. So I spent a lot of time in the athletic Department. I also am a former Swanee parent.
We have a son, Andrew, who graduated last year and he was a student athlete on the basketball team and I'm gonna let our painter great panelists here introduce themselves real quick.
Hi, I'm Cameron Broussard. I'm from right outside Nashville, TN. I play women's basketball and the main reason I chose Swanee was to continue my athletic career but also have a great education and good alumni networking once I graduate.
Hey guys, I'm Ellie. I'm from Clarksville, TN. I'm also a member of the women's basketball team. I am currently a junior and I just want you for similar reasons as Cameron and I also chose Suwannee because it gives you the opportunity to be more than just an athlete and a student.
Great thank you guys and maybe as we get into the questions will just go to the same order camera Nelly Gracie is we answer or if we maybe will switch it up halfway. But I'll let you guys know what we do.
So yeah, let's dive in here. We wanted to give you a little bit of info just about swaney in general to start off, and this slide kind of talks about in case you don't have any. Some of the basic information. This is some data that you can use to sort of kind of figure out who we are. Half and half male female. Basically students mostly from the Southeast, but we get students from all over the country and from all over the world. 30 different countries represented this year. 1 interesting thing I feel like 2 interesting things. One is about 80% of our students come from.
Outside of the State of Tennessee, and that's a little bit unusual for small liberal arts colleges in the South and the other thing that you'll see on the slide is about a third of our students are student athletes. We have 24 varsity sports that you'll see all this stuff here in a minute, and so that's a big portion of our student body and we're really proud of that. We also have 13,000 acres, so that's a kind of unique piece, something a little different than most places Swanee competes in the Southern Athletic Association.
Currently there are eight schools in our conference. You can see the logos there. Of those eight schools there in the states of Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama.
And we have 24 varsity sports there that were at NCA Division Three, so we were a found. Actually, a interesting a founding member of the Southeastern Conference, which if you do some research on, we played against most of the Southeastern Conference schools, leased the original ones for years, and that sort of historical tidbit that I mentioned. The essay has eight schools, and those little logos there, and that mascot for Suwannee is the Swanee Tigers. And that's our logo down there in the lower right hand corner.
We have 24 varsity sports and here's a list of all of those. Some of them are just men, some of them are just women's and then we have some that are Coed sports and so the panelists today represent a couple of those sports that we have. We also have a non competing cheerleading team as well.
Alright, so why don't we dive into some of our questions here? Panelists, if you're ready.
So we'll just choose some here. That's too that our visitors have sent in advance. Let's talk first about.
This is the student athlete life balance.
Taylor Baird
02:06:33 PM
Learn more about the Southern Athletic Association here: https://saa-sports.com/
So I wanted you to answer this. How do student athletes balance athletics, academics and other activities and social life? So we'll go in the same order. Cameron, right here and then Ali and Gracie.
So for me it was definitely an adjustment going from high school basketball to college basketball. But since I have been balancing academic with athletic careers since like middle school, it wasn't too much of a jump. But um, swannies, definitely rigorous academic school so.
It was definitely an adjustment in that regard. You learn pretty quick how to do homework on buses, homeless in hotels. You learn quick. Also, time management skills. And so I think it's just a learning process and you'll get it eventually, at least by the end of your first semester. And it's it's good from there, but it's a pretty easy balance. I appreciate Swanee so much because I'm able to like just said, have an athletic career, academic career and social life, and I'm also involved in Greek life and you can.
Do so many things at Swanee and it's all very manageable.
Just going off like Cameron said, I completely agree with all of that. You can also like. As far as other things you know. Like you have time to play sports, you have time to do class so you have time to get things done that you need to get done and then you also learn to balance your time on your day so that you do have the opportunity to be engaged in social life things or in other programs that are close to you or that are meaningful to you and.
The professors at Swanee and your coaches and just everyone like in leadership positions make that a lot easier for you. People are always there, like encouraging you to try new things and.
To make things accessible to you, so yeah.
So feeding off of that and will go in reverse order, so Gracie you can start on this. What what does A day in the life of a student athlete look like? And let's very specifically talk about A day in the life of a student athlete. When you're in season, assuming that you have a full conference schedule on a full competition schedule.
Basketball for us. Pretty similar to that. Typically we have two hour practices every day that we don't have a game, and sometimes with taxes are from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM and then other times we will go 5 to 7 at night and sometimes we even go 7 to 9 at night. Kind of depending on what other sports teams are doing in the gym. So typical day during season for me would look like.
Depending on what time practice was on my wake up at 5:00 and go to practice from 6 to 8 and then run to my 8:00 AM class have class but then sports would be done for the day. So I would have the whole day to do. I needed to get done and then.
The same thing we have now practices. You get everything done before practice and then you go to practice and everything is done after and then as far as travel. Typically we have two games a week.
And we practice before we leave and we go.
Shiro Burnette
02:12:15 PM
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And we have a shoot around practice like the day of the game and then we go eat as a team and we hang out for awhile and then we play and then we travel to the next school where we're going to and then we do the same thing all over again the next day and then we do have one day off every week.
Cameron, why don't you talk about how basketball specifically looks in the offseason? What would be the difference between in season and out of season? Your schedule?
So um, right now kind of. Well, I was talking about how we would practice six days a week and then not the days that we have games right now since we actually don't have any games scheduled an we're not, we're not competing. We would lift three days a week like Monday, Wednesday, Friday, all in small groups due to covid guidelines. And so, like maybe me and Eli will lift if it's we have an hour between like 11 and 12 will lift 1112 or will go later like five to six. It just really depends on everybody's schedules right now.
But that's typically all that we're doing right now is whether lifting or like last weekend we went outside on the football field and did an outside football field workout to Ellie. Made no super fun, it's just another great chance to see all your teammates even though we're not competing right now.
Very good, I'm going to answer one question real quick, just generically an then I want each of you just sort of talk about how this specifically relates to your sport. So the question was when do student athletes arrive on campus and the short answer to that is that it really depends on what sport you're talking about. If you compete in a fall sport every fall, sport with the exception of cross country, has a fairly lengthy preseason meaning 4567.
8-9 days somewhere in there, and so those student athletes would show up that many days in advance of when orientation begins, which is always on a Saturday and kind of the middle of August. Then if you're a winter sport, and so the break their winter break or Christmas break will be right in the middle of your season. You may stay a little bit later, or arrive a little bit earlier.
Two when second semester Easter semester begins. Depending on whether you have competitions or to get ready for those or and so how would you guys answer that very specifically? What Gracie? You talk about volleyball? We gotta go in reverse order. Cameron, you talk about basketball so you guys don't come in early, but what happens to winter break there during the season?
So when we first get to campus, um, we're basically doing preseason conditioning and lifting all the way up until I think.
An early November we start actually practicing and then up until winter break. We're playing games, practicing six days a week, and then we leave for winter break for like maybe a couple of days and then come back early and they have a two week period before we. I think like I want to have to appear before we start games again and so we're doing like 2 days we go out in the morning and then go later in the day. So two days for about a week and then we just start back with games.
So Ellie, why don't you talk a little bit about what that's like? I mean, you don't. You don't really get a Christmas break, and so is that a pain? Or do you are you? Are you in it? You know you love the sport and you want to do that and you're willing to give that up in order to compete.
Well, basketball season itself is really long. Typically we start conditioning everything. Like Cameron said end of August early September, and that's like the very first month that you're here. And that's when you start. And then we actually start real practice in October, and so we actually have like a whole month of practice before we even have a game which can get like, really.
Lengthy and feel like it's forever, um, and we also don't really get a Thanksgiving break.
So as far as not having a break, it's.
It's like in the moment it's kind of like oh man, like this stinks everyone's at home with their family, but we have a good time. When we're back. I mean when we come back on campus and.
Cameron might agree with me on this, that we.
So all the basketball girls were all put in the same dorm because like it's just us and the boys basketball team on campus over break.
We're open the same dorm, so it's like a really good time for us to, you know, like build our team chemistry and we do have a lot of fun, and when it's not covid we you know like we take trips to Chattanooga, will go to Nashville, will go down the mountain and I'll have dinner together. So I think it's it's really fun and it's really enjoyable to like. Have that time with your team.
Sports aren't forever, so it's a good time to really.
Be present in the moment that you're in, and take advantage of the opportunities that you do get.
Very good Gracie so you're the fall sport representative. What does it look like for volleyball? You guys come back a little bit early. And how does? How does that work?
Kind of, yeah, that's good. Kind of feeding off that a little bit. You guys have talked about the fall in the spring and you've talked about sort of in season out of season. Tell me what you guys do in the summer. So what do you do? Just that self directed? Or do you get some work out from your coach to do about summer? How does that look? And if so do you kind of feel like it's a break or do you feel? Yeah, how does that work in the summer?
Gracie will start with you and go backwards.
Cameron, what about basketball? What are you guys doing in the summer?
I'm so typically in the past we will.
Whenever we get finished with basketball and like postseason workouts, we Max out on our lists so that we know what IMAX is going into the summer.
And then coaches Coach will email us kind of similar with Gracie. Was saying like a workout but coaches us like a workout plan and it's typically like a three day a week type workout rather than like an everyday thing.
And so we'll do the lists that are on the sheet and the running in the workouts. And then as far as like actual basketball goes, we're just kind of.
On our own, to be disciplined enough to like get in the gym and a lot of players on our team, have trainers at home that they'll work with over the summer. But yeah, typically coach will just.
So NASA workout and then if we want more like if we if we were to ask her if possible workout you know, like she'll send it out in, but that's typically all we do and it's still. I still definitely feel like I have a summer because it's not like an everyday thing for I'm not in the gym for four hours like every single day where I would be like if we were in season and you have the opportunity to do those workouts like outside or in your home or in a gym or.
On vacation or anywhere really.
Cameron, what would you add about basketball anything?
Yeah, I really agree with Eli me. Personally I do have a trainer at home so I try to train with him four to five times a week, usually more towards 4, but I also do those additional lifts as well. I go to a gym local gym in my town Smyrna as well so I really just balance between those two and I still have a free summarize and still able to like work if I get a job. They only want to get a job but I'll definitely get a job this summer so I definitely time to still balance all that out.
OK, good balance all that out. So that really leads really well until our next question. So once you guys to each talk a little bit about some of your tricks or your habits or your methods for sort of staying on top of the work is each of you kind of outlined here. You're in season. You're outta season the summer. You got jobs. You might have work, study stuff you might have.
Extracurriculars tapped on there an really. You're a student athlete. The student comes first. So what? What are your own little tricks for staying on top of it all? Getting the work done, keeping good grades and all that stuff? Cameron will start with you.
I actually have like a little planner. I'm very I do better like handwriting things out instead of having all electronic so I know a lot of people use like Google Calendar and things like that, but I prefer writing it down because it's easier for me to check it 'cause I have it with me in my backpack all the time. I guess that's kind of the main thing that really keeps me on top of my assignments and we also have a website that all students use called bright space and all your teachers have access to that as well, so they're posting your assignments on there.
And you can submit a lot of your assignments electronically through brightspace. They also send reminder emails about assignments. So just I guess my planner in Brightspace really help me stay on top of everything and work study wise. I work in admissions, I work at Fulford.
I just I made a good work schedule to when I'm free and will balance as well with my academic schedule as well.
For me it kind of something similar. I also have a pair, an act like it's easier to remember things when you write them down. And like Cameron said, Brightspace does help a lot and my professors have done a really good job of like right now. They'll send out an email in. They'll also post, I guess schedule for the week so that you have a reminder everything that's due that week and everything that you need to do to prepare. Prepare yourself for that week and for me personally, I don't have any classes on Mondays at the beginning of the week.
So I try to get most of my stuff done on Mondays like readings and assignments that are due like before the weekend. I'll try to like focusing on them and get them done on Mondays. And if I Downton.
Something that's worked really well for me is like prioritizing my assignments in, you know, like order of how they do.
Which would make sense for anyone, honestly, but that's just what I do.
Let me give you guys a break and I'll answer one of the questions that came in and while I'm while I'm doing this, I want to say to our audience. If you guys have some questions, if you'll type those in and then when I'm done answering this, we'll see if we have any new questions. Otherwise will jump to our next topic. The question was what will sports next fall look like? If Covid is still an issue?
So that's the $1,000,000 question. I mean I think a lot is learned has been learned by everybody, administration coaches, student athletes. You know there are lots of meetings and conversations that have been had this year. You know clearly.
If covert covert being still an issue is.
You know, it could be defined in a lot of different ways. If if the pandemic spikes again, then I can imagine what happened on this campus. This year would be similar to what happens next year, and obviously none of us. Nobody hope that's the case.
If Covid is maybe a little bit more under control, whether it's because of the vaccine or because the numbers drop quite a bit, which they appear to be doing, which is awesome, then I can imagine it next years would look very different.
I've been a lot of feedback from a lot of different people involved, student athletes, parents, faculty, staff, administrators, and so I feel like they'll be a really good conversation before any decision is made, and it's possible that it wouldn't be made until June or July just to make sure that we have the most current information before that, those decisions are made so.
OK Sharrow, do we share with our our question assistant out there. So what questions do we have here?
Lauren
02:29:16 PM
do the teams have structured practices during off season? or is it just lifting?
Sorry, my eyes are not good so I'm gonna look here. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. So you guys talked a little bit about the offseason, so for each of your sports, is there any volleyball or basketball that actually happens in the offseason? Or do you guys just lifting condition talk a little bit about that will go Gracie Elion in camera?
So with basketball, um, things are a little different because we do have.
I don't. I'm not sure the libel rules are, but I know that we have rules and regulations that we had to follow as far as like preseason in offseason go with basketball and.
I know that when like in the preseason, we very first get there for like the whole month of.
We can touch a basketball like we can be a team and we can be together and like dogs is a time when we do conditioning on the track or we run the stairs or we you know run suicides in the gym. But we can't. Let's like we can't touch a basketball like with coach like outside of a structured structured practice, we are allowed to go in the jam. We are allowed to get shots up. We are allowed to do things that the players put together like we can go Play 4 on four or five 15 by ourselves. Coach just isn't allowed to be there.
And then we move further an I think it's like there's just certain steps that have to be taken in the offseason before we're actually allowed to have those structured practices. But once it hits October, we are allowed to do like structured like real structure practices and start writing plays and.
Do other things besides lifting?
Um, I've never really experienced a full offseason because I'm only a sophomore, so my freshman year cut short. So Eli definitely have more insight than I would on a true basketball season.
Yeah, and one in one clarifying .20. Sorry go ahead.
No, I was just going to add in like when basketball is over in the postseason we typically.
We typically don't really have like a full like set of structured practices because there are there is a limit to like the amount of times your team can be in a gym, like in a season, and because we play so many games, we typically don't have a lot of like extra. You know room for like practices like legal practices, leftover if that makes sense, but we will do like workouts with like smaller groups with coach, we just don't really do like a full team, very structured practice in postseason.
Very good thanks and one clarifying piece. So we've got two different seasons Sportswear talking bout volleyballs a fall sport an all fall sports would have all sports have a very specific NCA calendar. There would be a start date there be a finished date to the official season. If you're a fall sport then you would have a season and you would have in the fall and you would have a non traditional season in the spring and I'll talk about that in a minute.
If you're a winter sport, you don't have a non traditional season. You just have offseason times when you can do things on your own and very specifically, your coach can give you things specially like basketball when they show up, there's a lot of stuff they're doing, but it's not formal practice that they can't can't be mandatory, but you know, everybody's going to do whatever they can to get ready for the season. And then if you're a spring sport then your fall. It's the offseason and spring is in season and there's a start date.
In an end date and a certain number of practices that you can have per week and over the course of this season. So non traditional season. What does that mean? It means that for instance, volleyball as a fall sport would be given currently 16 days in the spring to do spring ball. Anas Gracie was mentioning it's so much more relaxing in season. There might be a scrimmage there might not everything else you're doing, and lifting and whatnot is a voluntary practice, and again.
Lauren
02:35:30 PM
Do athletes have "preferred" access to tutors?
Like these are serious student athletes, so they're going to show up to everything that is suggested to them. Basketball is different as would be swimming and diving, which is a winter sport because it covers both semesters so they don't have a non traditional season. But they have this little offseason pockets there to beginning and end of the semester. Earth. Yeah, beginning of the fall and then end of the spring and then they've got summer too. So alright, let's move to a little different topic and I'll say people people keep keep the questions coming. We'd be happy to answer those.
But here's one and I'll kind of semi answer at 1st and let you guys dive in. Question is how is housing determined for student athletes? The short version of that answer is that housing is determined the same for every student on this campus. Whether you're a student athlete or not. But why don't you guys comment on what that experience is like for you coming in as a freshman and then and then each of you is at least come through at 1 one additional time.
After that, maybe two in in-house selection? How did that work for you guys? And what is your dorm experience been like? So we'll start. I think we need to start with Cameron this time, yeah.
So I whenever I came I thought it was kind of weird that I wasn't going to live with athlete because kind of when you're going to play college basketball or any type of college boy, you're going to be living in a dorm that's just athletes. Like I have friends at Miami of Ohio and she just with volleyball players. But I kind of appreciated not living with an athlete because it kind of Tommy how to live with someone that doesn't have the exact same schedule as me. And kind of learning how to.
Learning how to live with someone that isn't exactly like you, and so my freshman year, my roommate. She was great. We had completely different schedules, were sending completely different things. He wasn't involved in athletics at all, but I thoroughly enjoyed living with her and I had no problems with it. And then now my sophomore year. I live with someone else who also isn't an athlete, but she kind of. She works out on her own. She like play soccer whenever she can, so she's definitely more active than my previous roommate, and it's kind of fun because during the offseason.
I can go left to work out with her and so I really enjoy it. I've enjoyed both my years. He ran my rooming situations.
Just kind of going off what she said about not living with an athlete, so you're really actually not allowed to live with like freshman year, they won't pair you with an athlete.
Or like at least an athlete that's on the same team as you and Swanee does this purposely so that you you know like you meet more people and you kind of brought in like.
The range of the people that you meet my freshman year I was actually roomed with a girl from China so we had very different lifestyles. We had very different everything but I really loved her. She's great roommate. She actually lives in New York now and I still talk to her every now and then and that was really fun.
I mean like Cameron said it's really a learning experience and you just learn to.
Adopt into adjust to other people as far as like the actual rooming like process goes. So at Swanee you have a room draw number and it all goes based on. So getting gowned if you're if you are ground you have.
I like it that you have like first like what's it called first dibs on the room that you want, and then from there.
You like, have a number and that's your room draw number and you have a certain time when you can go pick your room. But after freshman year you do get to the option to choose where you live. Option might be slimmed down by the time it comes to return, but you still I think they do get to pick where you end up living freshman sophomore year. I did have a roommate this year. I have a single which is definitely totally different than having a roommate, but I've had really good rooming experiences.
Darrell
02:41:35 PM
Do many athletes do dual sports?
Very good. OK so we have another question here that's been submitted. Do athletes have preferred access to tutors? So I'm going to answer that question, but I want you all to be thinking about this. It's an NTA violation actually to have any student service that is specifically intended for student athletes, so we don't have the student athletes don't have access to anything that that the rest of the student body.
It has access to, but why don't you guys talk a little bit about that about if you have trouble in a class or if you have are struggling as a writer or you know you have to take a math requirement or foreign language or whatever it might be. What's your experience been with accessing people who can help whatever level your professor or tutors or whatever Gracie will start with you.
Shiro Burnette
02:43:45 PM
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Elegant, Cameron, what do you have to add?
I was just going to add that the tutors are students and freshman year actually had a biology tutor that was.
I was very close with outside of that. I'm near best friends so it was really nice to like you know.
Be tutored by someone that was really close with and then they got you know like they got their reward from doing it as well and like Gracie was talking about coaches.
Coaches will definitely connect you with other professors that can help. If you aren't comfortable going to like the one professor 'cause for whatever reason, um, also like if you had a professor in the past that you might know like I guess, for example, like if you're a psych major an you had a psychology professor your freshman year and you're really struggling in a class your junior year and you go box a professor there, always willing to like help even though you're not a current student of theirs. And that's something that.
I've been really appreciative of here.
My freshman year I came in as premed. Then I'm pre PA physicians assistant so I was thrown into lots of science courses right off the bat and it was kind of overwhelming so I actually had a tutor for both my introductory biology course an my introductory Chemistry course.
Anna, I would meet with him. It was the same tutor for both classes an like kind of like Ellen Gracie said. These are all students that have excelled in the class and so they're tutoring us. They're getting paid for it like they want to be there. They want to help. And so he was my tutor for both courses an we would meet like once or twice a week is really dependent on our schedules, but he taught me new ways how to study. He would go over material that I learned in the in the previous class before and he would explain it to me more and my common terms to where I can understand it better instead of just a teacher.
Talking to you and he really helped my grades jump from like being kind of not so good to being pretty lot better and then also it's nice to have teammates that are also studying the same thing. You are like one of our teammates was a biochem major and so she's been helping me since all through freshman year and author sophomore year with all my chemistry classes like I had to take organic chemistry one and organic chemistry two and she helped me with both of those classes as well.
So you have resources here at Swanee you have tutors and then you also have teammates that are either taking the same courses to do or how or no friends. I've taken the same ones and they're here to help you as well.
Impression that was submitted do are any of you and I don't think you are, so I don't think he said during the intro.
Can students Lani student athletes be 2 sport athletes? And I'll let you guys talk about that first. And maybe you know somebody who who is this 2 sport athlete? It's one and you can reference that and I'll talk a little bit at the end. And my experience Cameron will start with you.
So I personally am not a dual sport athlete, but um, one of Gracie's suite mates is and she's one of my really good friends and her name is Gigi. She's only equestrian team and she runs track and field and so that's just an example of 1 dual sport athlete I know and she's also involved in Greek life. She's a tour guide. She's like an Englishman. Issues politics major, so it's still manageable. With all the things that you do as well.
Um, yeah, there's that's that's.
Ellie. What do you think?
I was just going to say I know quite a few people that are multi sport athletes. I was almost one freshman year. The softball team was struggling a little and needed some players and I played softball in a previous lifetime and actually practice with them for a little while. And then I had a knee injury.
So I didn't end up doing that, but it's definitely possible an even when I was thinking about it, I had come fishing with my coach and the softball coach and both coaches were really like willing to accommodate whatever I needed an to arrange schedules so that you could make it to both. And I know tons of football players.
Do more than just football.
Also, I have another friend Nino Elite eight. She does lacrosse and field hockey and there's another girl named Hannah and she does softball and soccer so I guess I'm thinking of like more people as we go but then as well so they still did. Juice worsen dual sports as well.
Yeah, that's good. Very good. Good answers. OK, we're getting close to the end here, so I would say if there are any other questions, go ahead and throw this out there. I've got one more here that I'll ask that was submitted beforehand and then it maybe will have one final question, Sharrow, I don't know if you have anymore.
But you guys have talked a lot about.
Participating in other activities as a student, athlete of Swanee, and maybe you've really already answered this question, but just maybe maybe talk a little bit about from their perspective of how challenging is that? I mean, do you ever find yourself thinking?
Um, who are getting in situations or OK, you're like I really want to do this, but either I have practice or we're going away for an away competition an how do you? How do you juggle that and where does your mind land? Sort of a student athlete with that situation, so we'll start with Gracie.
Lauren
02:52:38 PM
How are sports injuries handled?
Um, yeah, I think I think Gracie did a really good job. I think she pretty much covered everything.
And like she said, we might miss something being away for basketball or, you know we have a game next day, so we can't necessarily participate something that's happening tonight before, but there's always something that like the it's always going to happen again. And there's always something to look forward to. And just like she said, people that are at that event don't necessarily get to experience what we're experiencing. You know? Like while we're playing on the road, or like in a hotel and we always get to go fun places like for food and.
There we go on a trip. We always eat somewhere that we don't have. Like you know, easy access to and we are at Suwannee.
But it's kinda fun sometimes just get away and like, have fun with your teammates. But yeah, there's definitely something always going on and you might miss one thing, but.
When you get back there will be something else going on that you can participate in.
I guess I took this question more as being involved in different clubs and activities in groups like that.
I I know I'm involved with some of like the medical profession societies. An especially now since Covid guidelines a lot of its unzoom or so it's all more accessible. If you were to miss meetings and things like that, but um.
Kind of kind of general thing we've been talking about. Everybody's super accommodating, so even though the leaders of those clubs, if you give them the heads up and let them know that you might not make it to a meeting or something like that, they'll definitely feel you and send you what was said during the meeting. Things like that work wise. Like I said, I work in Fulford so when we have those away games and we're traveling on the weekend, I just shoot my boss a text or an email and I'll be like, hey, we're going we're away for this weekend and she's completely fine with it.
And I might make up those hours next week.
Then I'm actually in the same story is Gracie, so we kind of the exact same experience in that regard as well. We definitely can miss some stuff, and it does suck, but you gotta realize that you are playing a sport Anuar fulfilling maybe your dream of playing college college basketball for me and I just have to put into perspective and realize that I'm here for a reason. And I'm like here to play my sport. And so I just have to remember that and realize that I'll miss some things. But like Ellie was saying, we make up for it on the road when you're with your team an.
It's it's always a fun time, so yeah.
Very good. OK, so we're wrapping up here and we do have one more question that will get to here in just a second. But before we do I wanted to ask our behind the scenes people. We've got Shiro and Taylor working behind the scenes. Thank you guys for helping out and those of you who are watching this may have noticed.
Taylor Baird
02:57:09 PM
https://sewaneeambassadors.com/
Obviously you've noticed that we have. We only have female student athletes on our panel and these are three excellent panelists, but you may be thinking, Gee, I wonder what a male student athlete would have had would have that person would have answered that question. So what? I want Sharon Taylor to do is see if you guys would just put the chat with the student link in the in the chat section and that way some of our volunteers who who do's chat with students they actually.
Our student athletes as well, and there's some men on that list, so feel free to go in there if you want to send me those questions. So alright, here's the last question. This is a good one.
How are sports injuries handled at Slony? So why don't you guys talk a little bit about that? Talk about the training room maybe, maybe not. If you have been injured, that would be great news actually. But if you have been injured, you know you've got the training room you've got Ray Knight and his staff. Maybe you've interacted with sports medicine. Maybe you've interacted with doctors at your home? How's that work for each of you? Cameron will start with you.
Taylor Baird
02:57:51 PM
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Taylor Baird
02:59:06 PM
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Yes, I was with Cameron. Her traumatic experience with her quad.
But kind of going off when she said I also came into Swanee I tore my ACL senior year of high school so I came into signing, still dealing with that injury, but as far as since I've been here I do have an extra bone in my foot.
I just I've always had it and it's something that you know, like you can have surgery there. Click to like get it fixed but away long covered process and after going through ACL surgery I didn't want to do that but the trainers were very helpful in.
Finding something that would help make it better. I wore a boot for a little while.
Um, just kind of accommodate times when I wasn't playing, but the trainers actually discovered we put like a little thing in my shoe.
To accommodate for like the lack of an arch, so that was really helpful with them. And my camera was saying about pregame and postgame treatments. They're always there super early. I mean we would have practice at 6:00 AM and just for example Teague was there at 4:30 in the morning of like waiting for us to be there at 5 and getting everything ready. Trainers here are great Ray. He's great, and especially with this semester with all the concussion testing and everything and with covid.
Things had to be like moved on line or like now we do stuff through phone on our app.
But injuries, personally, I believe are handled very seriously, but treatment is done very accurately and they try their best to get you back in shape as quickly as you can.
Very good. Well, we've run out of time. In fact, we're a little bit over, but that's excellent. First, I want to just say thank you. Thank you. Thank you to our panelists. You guys have done an amazing job. If we've learned anything, it's that you guys are super busy. So thanks for giving up an hour for the admissions office and for all the students out there who are hoping to gather some good info. You can see some links there on the website. I forgot that that it's wanna chat with the student link was going to be in this.
Lauren
03:04:35 PM
Thank you very much!
Slide show, so there's that. You can schedule a visit. There's the athletics website so you can get on there and learn a lot more information. And if you haven't already reached out to a coach, each team has a prospect questionnaire that you could fill out that will go straight to the coach and get you more information. So thanks, everybody, panelists, students who attend. We really appreciate all of you if you have other questions, let us know and guys have a good rest of the day. See you later.