LIFE as a full-time athlete, and the chance to travel as well as study, has lured two North Adelaide Year 12 graduates to US colleges.<\/p>\n
Tennis player Brooke Rischbieth and lacrosse player Rebecca Putna leave for America this month, after landing college scholarships to combine their sporting endeavours with tertiary education. Brooke, 18, is a junior Fed Cup champion who went over to the states in 2010 to play in professional tennis tournaments.<\/p>\n
After finishing Year 12 at Wilderness School last year, she enlisted the help of the Aussie Athletes Agency – run by the former world No
\n2 doubles player Sandon Stolle – to find a good college in the US.<\/p>\n
Brooke was offered six tennis scholarships and eventually decided on Northwestern University in Chicago. “When I went there it was the first time I saw snow, so it was completely different and that’s what I wanted,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I want to be challenged and meet new people and it’s a good opportunity to be in a training environment with eight girls, trainers, physios and dietitians, which will be a wonderful stepping stone (to professional ranks).”<\/p>\n
Rebecca, 19, has been playing lacrosse since she was five. Last month she represented the Australian under-23 team in China and
\nJapan. Rebecca will now continue her lacrosse career while she studies engineering at Marquette University in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited to be able to train a couple of hours every day and play every weekend, so I will see a lot of America,” Rebecca said. “It will be completely different to here, where I’m training and playing once a week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brooke Rischbieth, 18, Junior Fed Cup champion sets her sights on the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":6227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}