Program Blogs - Duke ACE

PublishedJuly 26, 2018 by Anja Zehfuss, Stanford Women's Rowing

For the first blog I wrote a list of 9 things that I loved about my ACE in South Africa…

PublishedJuly 25, 2018 by Sydnei Murphy, Duke Women's Track & Field

One moment. A snapshot. A humbling experience. An occasion that stuck with me. One instance that gave me a purpose.…

PublishedJuly 25, 2018 by Kayla McCoy, Duke Women's Soccer

When I applied for ACE in South Africa, all I knew was that we would be working with women and…

PublishedJuly 25, 2018 by Taylor Lallas, Stanford Women's Tennis

In our pre-departure meetings for the ACE program, I recall Emily Durham, our dedicated program director, telling us that “ACE…

PublishedJuly 25, 2018 by Amelia Smith, Stanford Women's Beach Volleyball

Every single day that we drove up to the school in the township of Nomzamo to run our sports camp,…

PublishedJuly 25, 2018 by Aleeza Yu, Stanford Women's Gymnastics

Throughout these past three weeks, I have learned so much from everyone around me. My fellow participants, leaders, children, and…

PublishedJuly 14, 2018 by Max Evans, Stanford Men's Rowing and Roman Romero, Duke Wrestling

Rowing and Wrestling are two very different sports. Wrestling is very individual. Wrestling is two strong, angry, muscular men on…

PublishedJuly 13, 2018 by Amelia Smith, Stanford Beach Volleyball and Max Feldman, Duke Men's Soccer

Coming to South Africa to work with children, we all expected to learn from the people we worked with since…

PublishedJuly 13, 2018 by Sydnei Murphy, Duke Women's Track and Field and Aleeza Yu, Stanford Women's Gymnastics

In writing a paired-blog, we could talk about something extremely basic like our differences. For example, how one of us…

PublishedJuly 12, 2018 by Taylor Lallas, Stanford Women's Tennis and Callie Humphrey, Duke Women's Lacrosse

Although we seem to live very similar lives as student-athletes at highly competitive universities both athletically and academically, we both…