Posts from 2018

What initially seemed like a trip that would last forever was finally met with a day full of goodbyes. We…

It’s crazy to look back and realize we created these incredibly meaningful relationships with kids without even speaking their language.…

On most weekday mornings—barring downpour or exhaustion—Mitch, Jillian and I wake up at 4:45am and are out the door at…

And in the blink of an eye, we are finished with Coach for College and ACE in Vietnam. My time…

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

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

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

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

Kayla and Anja Traveling all the way to South Africa for a civic engagement program, we never expected to meet…

During one of our 40-minute life skills lessons, we attempted to teach the kids the importance of resilience and bouncing…