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Kelly Collins: A Life of Sports

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Kathryne Davis Student Contributor, SUNY Oswego
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Kaitlin Provost Student Contributor, SUNY Oswego
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Oswego chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

 
Most students who attend any college find it difficult to keep up with life just being a college student.  Add being an athlete to that work load.  Think that is tough? Add two more sports on top of that.

Kelly Collins, senior childhood education major, is not your typical athlete.  She plays three sports, has typical homework and does a number of extracurricular activities, including being a member of the VEGA honor society, education club, participating in intramural broomball and holding a job with Sports Information.  This may seem like a lot for one person to handle, but Collins has learned to handle her time well.

Collins has been playing sports for the majority of her life.  She started skating at age three and started hockey two years later.  When she was in seventh grade, Collins started playing field hockey for the modified team.  She started playing her third sport, lacrosse, as a freshman in college.

 “It was never forced upon me but once I started getting involved in sports I couldn’t stay away from it,” says Collins.

The whole Collins’ family is very athletic.  Her mother played ice hockey and field hockey at Oswego State, while her father played ice hockey at RIT.  Both of her brothers played football, lacrosse and hockey.  They are now professional hockey players.  Her sister also attends Oswego State and plays field hockey.

A few years after college, Collins would like to play in an adult hockey league for fun.  Ice hockey is her favorite sport out of the three to play “because it is the family sport and it is the one that makes me the most happy while participating in it.”  Although she would like to take a break from sports right after college, Collins plans on keeping in shape and continuing to work out.

Sports have definitely changed her life.  She has met life-long friends, developed a healthy lifestyle and a sense of discipline and has a chance to travel the world while playing sports herself and traveling for her brothers.  Also, sports have helped her academically, because athletes need a certain GPA to be able to participate in NCAA sports. 

“I would not change my choice of being an athlete for anything,” is Collins’ outlook on all of her hard work.    

Photos by Terry Baum.

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Kathryne Davis

Oswego

I'm a junior. I like to read, watch T.V. and sleep. Aaaand that's it.
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Kaitlin Provost

Oswego

Kaitlin Provost graduated from SUNY Oswego, majoring in journalism with a learning agreement in photography. She grew up in five different towns all over the Northeast, eventually settling and graduating from high school in Hudson, Massachusetts. Kait now lives in the blustery town of Oswego, New York, where she can frequently be found running around like a madwoman, avoiding snow drifts taller than her head (which, incidentally, is not very tall). She has worked for her campus newspaper, The Oswegonian, as the Assistant News Editor, and is also the President of the Oswego chapter of Ed2010, a national organization which helps students break into the magazine industry. She hopes to one day work for National Geographic and travel the world.