Artifacts

I definitely have a strange artifact that although I don’t carry it with me daily, it still sits in my room as a reminder of the past: my boot.

I have always loved athletics. Coming from a family with two siblings and extremely active parents, I have developed a passion for competitions and taking on physical challenges of all sorts. During my junior year of high school, I decided to take up pole vaulting and unfortunately ended my season early due to two stress fracture in my left foot. While not being able to compete for my team was disheartening, I did become aware of a field of science that combines all of the things that I love into one: sports medicine.

     

During the many visits to my sports medicine doctor, I saw how she was able to come up with the best path of treatment to get me back to doing what I love. This has inspired me to work with athletes when I am older and do that same thing for them. Being able to relate to how they feel and see their perspective as an athlete and use medicine to come up with a course of action to help them get better is so interesting to me, and the experience of having my stress fractures definitely opened my eyes to this career path and can allow me to relate to potential athletes in the future.