{"id":3345,"date":"2019-03-10T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamstox.com\/athlete-stories\/around-about-with-aurelia-meijer-field-hockey\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:22:37","slug":"around-about-with-aurelia-meijer-field-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamstox.com\/en\/around-about-with-aurelia-meijer-field-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Around &#038; About #4: Aurelia Meijer &#8211; Penn State University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2015 Aurelia Meijer leaves the small Dutch country to make the big trip across the Atlantic Ocean. There she plays hockey as a student athlete for one of the largest universities in America: The Pennsylvania State University! Penn State University has more than 45,000 students who all live in the college village of College Park. A special community: everywhere you look you see students in &#8216;Penn State shirts &amp; sweaters&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university is one of the best division 1 colleges in America and therefore participate in the most famous conference: The Big 10! Aurelia is now in her last semester, after which she will return to the Netherlands to work in marketing. She describes her 4-year experience as follows: &#8220;surrounded by like-minded, performance-oriented student-athletes from all over the world inspired me to reach my athletic and academic potential&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Around &amp; About #4 - Aurelia Meijer - Penn State University - Slamstox\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4OhlARCpk9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aurelia&#8217;s hockey team has had many successes: they came first in the Big 10 Conference and were among America&#8217;s best 8 teams! But she was not only successful on the hockey pitch: during the summer vacation in her fourth year, she managed to do a marketing internship at one of Nike&#8217;s headquarters in Portland. 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