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In our final Return to Play interview of the series, Sierra Tyson calls in from Barcelona to discuss her internship with PG&E, learning to surf in Oahu, and studying Conservation Biology. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice.  Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

SWARTHMORE, Pa.--On this episode of Return To Play, Andie Kapiloff, from Swarthmore College Women's Lacrosse shares about her experience playing and coaching lacrosse in Israel while taking a gap semester in the spring of 2021. She discusses the challenges she faced traveling internationally during a pandemic, a course at Swarthmore called Plants and People, and her favorite moment on the lacrosse field so far. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise.  Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Chelsea Semper, a senior athlete from the Swarthmore College Field Hockey team, joins the podcast for a new episode of Return to Play. Semper took a gap semester in the hopes of taking the field for the Garnet one more time. The defender discusses the new role she took during the 2019 season, summer research that she has been working on and what she is looking forward to most in the fall. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College senior Michael Brown joins the Return To Play podcast to discuss his time on the men's golf team and his gap year during which he gained valuable experience doing business analytics and marketing internships. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise.  Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Women's Tennis' Jenny Lewis took a gap year after her freshman year and spent it doing research with orthopedic doctors at the University of Chicago and had the incredible opportunity to present a paper for publication that she was the first author of. She discusses her appreciation for chemistry courses at Swarthmore, trying to find places to play tennis in Chicago during the pandemic, and her goals for the future. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Men's Basketball forward Julian Levin took a gap year when he found out that the 2020-21 season had been canceled. In this episode of Return To Play, he discusses with host Brandon Hodnett his decision to take the year off from school, his cross country road trip touring national parks, and his internship training dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College's Riley Thompson, a mathematics major and member of the women's swimming team, joins Brandon Hodnett on the Return To Play podcast to discuss what it was like for her to try to return to the US from Jamaica when the world shut down, her forensics research on campus modeling fingerprint analysts complex decisions, and her interest in peace and conflict courses at Swarthmore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Horace Shew, a senior for Swarthmore College Men's Swimming, reflects on his time at Swarthmore in the latest episode of Return To Play. Shew discusses winning a Centennial Conference Championship, struggling to find an open pool during the pandemic, his love of ancient languages like Latin, and doing research on campus analyzing the FBI's fingerprint database statistics.  This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Gwen Glatz from Swarthmore College's softball program, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. Glatz discusses the challenges of training during a pandemic and what her family did to stay active. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels

SWARTHMORE, Pa.--Swarthmore College's new Marian Ware director of athletics, physical education, and recreation Brad Koch has officially begun to lead the Garnet department of athletics. Director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett sat down with Koch to find out more about his background, his passion for athletics, his hobbies, his vision for Swarthmore, and more in this latest episode of Getting To Know The Garnet. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels. Click here to read the original press release announcing Koch's hiring. To see what Swarthmore student-athletes have been up to since they last competed in the 2019-20 school year, watch the Return To Play series on YouTube.

Emma Novak, from Swarthmore College's women's cross country, track and field programs, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. During Novak's gap year, she held several internships, but she also discusses her involvement with the performance arts at Swarthmore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Kim Kockenmeister, a two sport student-athlete from the Swarthmore College women's basketball and soccer programs, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. During Kockenmeister's gap year, she earned a certificate in Data Analytics and had a one-month internship turn into an eleven month experience. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Jacinta Fernandes-Brough, from the Swarthmore College women's soccer team, calls in from Madrid for this new episode of Return To Play. During Jacinta's gap year, she has been playing soccer for Spain's FC Málaga City and has fallen in love with the way the game of soccer is played in Spain. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Athletics is back with a new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlighting student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have done otherwise. In this first episode, director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett is joined by John Nichols-Daly from Swarthmore College Men's Tennis. Nichols-Daly discusses transferring into Swarthmore, struggling to find open tennis courts initially in Vermont, and trying to stay in touch with his teammates. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Matt and Brandon wrap up their discussion of the Greatest Of All Time at Swarthmore by breaking down the standout stars from our fall teams. They also take a look at Swarthmore student-athletes who competed in the Olympics. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

On this edition of the Swarthmore College Athletics podcast, Brandon Hodnett and Matt Judge continue the discussion of the greatest Garnet athletes of all-time, take a tour of campus in virtual reality, look at the new dining hall being built on campus, and go down the rabbit hole of Swarthmore's history. Visit SwarthmoreAthletics.com/facilities to tour campus virtually. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

On this week's episode of the Swarthmore Athletics podcast, director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett and assistant director of athletics communications Matt Judge discuss some of the GOATs, the greatest of all time among Swarthmore spring sport athletes. Additionally, Brandon and Matt share some of their most memorable games working at Swarthmore and some obscure box scores they've discovered in their archival research project. Psychologist Amber Buller joins the show to give a Garnet Healthy Mind update and assistant director of athletics for recreation & wellness Max Miller gives an update on all of the offerings for intramurals and more this spring.  Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Athletics has been a home away from home for Marie Mancini who has been on the sidelines with Garnet since 1986. Mancini took over as the head athletic trainer in 2002 and recently transitioned to the role of director of sports medicine.   On this episode of Getting To Know The Garnet, host Brandon Hodnett asks Mancini about her favorite memories on the sideline at Swarthmore, how Swarthmore  is addressing concussions, mental health, and pandemic concerns, and her love for the Philadelphia Phillies.    Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice.   Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Jim Heller has been the head coach of Swarthmore College Golf since the 2005-06 season and has twice been named the Centennial Conference Coach of the Year. Heller also takes pride in the academic success of his team which in two of the past three years was honored for having the highest team GPA in all of Division III. On this week's episode of Getting To Know the Garnet, host Brandon Hodnett talks with Heller, a Delaware County native, about rescuing people from a burning building as a Springfield police officer, being revived by CPR recently, Swarthmore's indoor golf facility, and what course he dreams of playing on. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College 2017 grads Sam Lebryk and Steve Sekula roomed together for three years at Swarthmore, each won a Centennial Conference Championship in their respective sports the same week of their senior year, and are now working together to produce a card game called Gem Blenders, a fitting name for a game created by Garnet alumni. In this episode of Then & Now, host Brandon Hodnett talks with Lebryk and Sekula about their time at Swarthmore, how they launched Gem Blenders on Kickstarter and how to play the game. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels. Click here to watch more interviews with alumni