Women’s Soccer’s Sulentic and Flanders Earn Academic Honors

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By: AnnE Potter&#13

Saint Joseph’s women’s soccer standouts Ana Sulentic and Kayla Flanders are staying honored for their get the job done ethic and energy staying put into their major of chemical biology at the College. 
 
Sulentic, a senior midfielder/defender, often had an curiosity in chemical biology thanks to her parents’ occupations, which is why she resolved to main in the subject. 
 
“My mother is a researcher and professor. My dad’s a health practitioner.” Sulentic claimed, “So I sort of understood I needed to go into that area.”
 
Flanders, a defender for the Hawks, generally liked biology and chemistry and imagined that the two subjects enhance each other nicely. The science software drew her to Saint Joseph’s as well due to the fact she used to be a McNulty Scholar, a University scholarship awarded to ladies in science.
 
“I had a ton of interviews below. I’ve performed research from St. Joe’s and distinct labs.” Flanders explained, “So I understood that if I was a science important, I would come to St. Joe’s and have a really great option to join a lab, which was a thing I actually wished to do.”
 
Being both student-athletes and STEM majors is not an quick process that the two have taken on. Time administration is a ability they have place to use equally in the classroom and on the field.
 
“For the duration of the season, I really took advantage of any free of charge time I experienced. If we’re on the bus, I would use that time to get matters completed,” Sulentic claimed. “Also, obtaining other teammates that are in related majors constantly aided for the reason that we enthusiastic just about every other.”
 
Flanders discovered that taking part in soccer and working experiments share a large amount of the identical similarities, a person of them getting that in get to set in the most effective function, pacing by yourself is the most significant. 
 
“Some of the experiments that I operate will get up to four several hours. So, realizing how to choose care of yourself is quite essential. In a soccer activity, it can be 90 minutes and I have to rate myself,” Flanders explained. “I have also learned to multitask a large amount. So while I am jogging an experiment, I will be learning or making an attempt to rewrite my notes.”
 
Sulentic is being awarded with the University’s Chemical Biology Award for her challenging do the job as a chemical biology big. She finds herself in the lab much more generally than not jogging experiments. 
 
“This yr, I was carrying out analysis in a lab at university. So actually, if I wasn’t in course, or at practice in the drop then I would be in the lab.” Sulentic claimed. 
 
A single of just four Saint Joseph’s students to utilize for the Goldwater Scholarship, Flanders failed to find out she earned the prestigious honor the regular way, but rather  while she was at an American Chemical Modern society nationwide convention.
 
“Dr. Reynolds despatched a blast email to professors and included me on the e mail chain. I recall it expressing, ‘congratulations, Kayla acquired the Goldwater award’ and at that position, I hadn’t even really woken up. I try to remember thinking, is this genuine? I was definitely psyched,” Flanders stated.
 
A person of the most prestigious awards for STEM majors nationally, Goldwater Scholarship will allow Flanders the option to research labs and keep on her STEM schooling at Saint Joseph’s. 

Sulentic will graduate this Saturday, May 21, as element of the University’s Graduation Ceremony, when Flanders, a increasing senior, will return for her fourth year as a member of the Hawks’ women’s soccer workforce in the drop.