Strategic presentation podcast

The podcast discusses the challenges and experiences of being a student athlete. It highlights the difficulties of balancing academics, sports, and personal life. The speaker shares her own experiences as a student athlete and the disconnect they sometimes feel with other students. Despite the challenges, being a student athlete provides valuable life skills and opportunities for personal growth. The podcast also mentions the struggles and mental health issues that student athletes face, but emphasizes the support they receive from teammates. It concludes by highlighting the benefits of being a student athlete, such as developing interpersonal skills, forming lifelong friendships, and receiving financial assistance through scholarships. Overall, being a student athlete is a transformative journey that requires dedication and resilience. Hi, my name is Victoria and my topic of my podcast is what it is to be a student outlet. The purpose of my podcast is to let people who are in the outlet understand how difficult and challenging it can be. The structure of my podcast will be some introduction, the personal life experience, some examples and conclusion. So let's start. Being a student outlet in college can be quite challenging. It requires a high level of dedication, time management and discipline to balance the demands of academics and athletics. Student outlets often have to juggle rigorous training schedules, travel for competitions and academic responsibilities such as attending classes, studying and completing assignments. It can be physically and mentally demanding, but many student outlets find it to be a rewarding experience that achieves valuable life skills. My name is Victoria Kostromina and I am a sophomore on Rutgers women's swimming dive team. I have noticed that at times there is a disconnect between outlets and other students on campus. As a result, I wanted to talk about my college experience and try to bridge the gap between student outlets and the rest of the student population. Throughout the year, I hope to write a variety of pieces that provide a little bit more insight the good and bad into the lives of Rutgers student outlets. A lot of people ask me what it means to be a student outlet and this is my answer. It means finding an impossible balance between school, sports and sleep. Notice, I didn't say anything about social life. It means sore legs, arms, back, knees, ankle, neck, even hair. It means 15-minute snap between class and practice. It means ending practice at 5 p.m. just to wake up at 6 a.m. the next morning for early conditioning. It means doing homework on the floor of an airport before you board an 11 p.m. flight back to New Jersey. It means running from post-practice rehab to class on a college job, cook dog, levy or bush with a to-go box of pancakes and bacon. To be a student outlet requires hard work, sacrifice and unwavering dedication. Despite the challenges and sacrifices necessary for almost every student outlet I know, we wouldn't have it any other way. As student outlets, we are challenged every day to excel in the classroom and on the pool. Some days it's hard, really hard to balance all of the responsibilities that come with this lifestyle. In high school, I rarely struggled between my schoolwork and my swimming life. Unfortunately now, I do find myself slightly overhelmed, but all of my responsibilities. This overwhelming feeling is one that student outlets know very well. At the end of the day, however, we are surrounded by like-minded individuals in pursuit of the same goal, success. As a result, we have an amazing and unique opportunity to represent Rutgers on a national scale while forging lifelong relations along the way. By the way, as a professional swimmer and student outlet, I already represent Rutgers on two national stages. It was Stockholm Open meet and European Championship in Italy-Rome when I won third place. But with this all good reason, student outlets have some issues or I would say struggles. It's impossible to repeat our team's incredible victories in the relay, touching first in the swim or our victory over a stronger team. But when it's time to go to work during these early mornings and late nights, we play for so much more than win and loses. We train every day to perfect the details of our game that allow us to shine under the florescent lights every week. In training session, we have the chance to get better together from extra fitness to fun intra-team competitions. Every training set the tone for the rest of the week. Within the realm of athletics, student outlets learn the value of leadership and teamwork. They understand the importance of collaboration, communication, and collective effort in achieving shared goals. These skills translate beyond the playing field, preparing them to become effective leaders in collaboration in various facets of life. But have I said earlier, we have some struggles. What it means, the student outlets struggling with physical, mentally, and psychological issues. We have some anxiety and anxious when we're trying to hold all this hard work and practice every day. Some outlets using therapists because we just cannot exist without any other help or support. However, after practice, it's done for the day and it's time to move on from training and focus on our next job, school. Even at post-practice breakfast and bush, our dining hall in the Athletic Center, Rotkin quickly turned from, whoa, this set was hard to, hey, did you do homework for strategic presentation? To embody the role of a student outlet, we must juggle the expectations of a student at Rutgers as well as the division outlets. Our days are long and our nights are longer, but we can always turn to our teammates and other outlets for support. How I said earlier, we need support. Meals at home or dining hall at late night study session are just a few ways in which the outlets of every sport at college spend time together. But do you know some benefits to be a college outlet? Being a college outlet comes with a variety of responsibilities and commitments. However, student outlets gain benefits through those responsibilities, commitments, and experience that serve them long after they stop playing. The benefit one, developing interpersonal skills. But playing and working alongside teammates and coaches, student outlets learn and develop essential life skills like leadership, time management, and working with others to achieve common goals. Plus, by balancing school work and playing sports, student outlets develop a solid work ethic which will help them in their future careers and make them attractive to prospective employers. The benefit number two, long-lasting friendships. One of the best part of college is finding and forming lifelong friendships. College sports team takes bonding to the next level as student outlets already have a lot of common interests. Furthermore, student outlets are often prepared to bond through team building activities, practice, team competition, and traveling. This mutual respect and dedication to the sport and each other allows student outlets to form deeper bonds of friendship, not to mention the bonding that comes from victories and losses. And I think benefit number three, financial assistance and scholarships. All students are eligible and can apply for need-based and material-based financial assistance through scholarship and grants. However, student outlets have the added benefit of a live funding for athletic scholarship. I'm really grateful that I already have the scholarship and I can be here with all this opportunity. Our day long and our nights are longer, but we can always turn to our teammates, like I said earlier, who become our best friends for life. Beyond the community we have within Rutgers, we also share the connections we have with other students as well. It is always a rewarding feeling to walk around campus and hear students cheer us on after a hard meet. It's especially rewarding to hear the support of students we don't know personally when we look up at the stands to see an electric student section on game days. We are reminded that we are subjected with the support of all our peers at Rutgers. And for conclusion, I want to say that being a student outlet doesn't come without a fair share of challenges. However, the memories we have made and the people we met, both students and athletes will stay with us for the rest of our lives. Being a student outlet is a transformative journey that expands far beyond the realms of academics and athletics. It requires a steadfast commitment to excellence, unwavering dedication, and a willingness to embrace challenge head on. Through this unique experience, student outlets emerge as resilient, well-rounded individuals equipped with the skills, values, and qualities necessary to succeed not only in sports, but in all aspects of life. Thank you for listening to my podcast. I hope now you can understand what we struggle with and how it's hard for us. Thank you so much.