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| Wesley Wolverine senior #18 C Nina Marcano (Middletown, DE). |
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Friday, December 23, 2016
ATHLETES = BEST EMPLOYEES
Summary of longer article
Former student-athletes
may be the best employees
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE titled "Why a Former Student-Athlete
5. "THE ABILITY TO TAKE A LOSS and turn it into fuel to succeed.
6. "EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - reading people, knowing how/when to give feedback or criticism.
7. "MOTIVATION to always be better.
8. "ADAPTABILITY. Going from winning to losing during a game.... what is the game plan? We have seconds to react. It'd be the same in the work place, whether it be new people, obstacles, or changes to a plan.
9. "PREPARATION, preparation, preparation...
10. "LOVE A CHALLENGE...
"Student-athletes understand what it means to have our name represent SOMETHING BIGGER THAN US. We understand that responsibility."
Former student-athletes
may be the best employees
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE titled "Why a Former Student-Athlete
Will Be Your Best Employee" at linkedin.com by Kirsten Dodds (Campaign Associate
at United Way of Calgary and Area)
Top 10 qualities learned or perfected from being a student-athlete that are attractive to an employer.
1. "TIME MANAGEMENT is studying for midterms and completing assignments on the bus ride home, after a heart-breaking loss... when your mind and body just wants to shut off and take the break it so needs...
2. "BEING PART OF A TEAM is second nature - this is so incredibly transferable to the work place...
3. "COMMUNICATION is right up this alley as well...
4. "WILLINGNESS TO RECEIVE FEEDBACK and be vulnerable in order to change for the better of the team.
Top 10 qualities learned or perfected from being a student-athlete that are attractive to an employer.
1. "TIME MANAGEMENT is studying for midterms and completing assignments on the bus ride home, after a heart-breaking loss... when your mind and body just wants to shut off and take the break it so needs...
2. "BEING PART OF A TEAM is second nature - this is so incredibly transferable to the work place...
3. "COMMUNICATION is right up this alley as well...
4. "WILLINGNESS TO RECEIVE FEEDBACK and be vulnerable in order to change for the better of the team.
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| From left, Wesley Wolverines sophomore #8 OF Megan DiRubbio (Smyrna, DE), junior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE) and senior #17 OF Casey Beall (Severn, MD). |
5. "THE ABILITY TO TAKE A LOSS and turn it into fuel to succeed.
7. "MOTIVATION to always be better.
8. "ADAPTABILITY. Going from winning to losing during a game.... what is the game plan? We have seconds to react. It'd be the same in the work place, whether it be new people, obstacles, or changes to a plan.
9. "PREPARATION, preparation, preparation...
10. "LOVE A CHALLENGE...
"Student-athletes understand what it means to have our name represent SOMETHING BIGGER THAN US. We understand that responsibility."
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
OUTFIELD SAVES GAMES!
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| From left, Wesley Wolverine senior #9 P/OF Lily Engel (Dover, DE), junior #99 OF Lauren Hoffman (Middletown, DE) and junior #4 IF Samantha Burns (Magnolia, DE). |
LIFE LESSONS
LIFE LESSONS TAUGHT THROUGH SPORTS
By Maggie Tabone
Sports have a lasting unique impact on our lives that cannot be compared to any other type of activity. Being an athlete is not always a smooth ride, and one learns many great life lessons about working with others, facing adversity and effort. These types of lessons relate to ‘real life’ more than people realize. Below are just a few...
By Maggie Tabone
Sports have a lasting unique impact on our lives that cannot be compared to any other type of activity. Being an athlete is not always a smooth ride, and one learns many great life lessons about working with others, facing adversity and effort. These types of lessons relate to ‘real life’ more than people realize. Below are just a few...
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE @ VARSITY VIEWS
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| Assistant Coach Brooke Donovan works with recruit P/ 1B Dori Loukopoulos (Chambersburg, PA) at last November's softball camp. Dori will join the team as a Wesley College freshman in the spring 2017. |
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Monday, December 19, 2016
BEING A GREAT TEAMMATE!
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Two Wesley Wolverine seniors, who, through the past three seasons,
are always in the game,
whether on the field or off, from left,
#42 INF
Devin
Mackay
(Bangor,
PA) and #9
P/OF Lily
Engel
(Dover,
DE).
Click
here for the full article titled
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| Pictured, Wesley Wolverine sophomore #13 Utility Ashley Royer (Lititz, PA). |
Sunday, December 18, 2016
FIGHT FOR IT!
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| Wesley Wolverines pictured sliding from top, freshman #23 UT Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD), freshman #11 C Alyssa Zimmerman (Hagerstown, MD), senior #18 C Nina Marcano (Middletown, DE). |
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