{"id":19210,"date":"2020-03-18T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19210"},"modified":"2020-03-16T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:32:54","slug":"camosun-student-manages-her-time-as-a-professional-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/03\/18\/camosun-student-manages-her-time-as-a-professional-cyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun student manages her time as a professional cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third-year Camosun Sports Management student Callie Swan recently signed a deal with Macogep Tornatech Girodins de Bordeaux, an all-women pro cycling team from Quebec. Swan is living and training in Tucson, Arizona, while taking her Camosun classes online.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year I applied to the team I am on, and they accepted,\u201d says Swan. \u201cCamosun had revamped their bachelor of Sport Management program. The first year of the new ministry-approved program, it is a lot more business oriented, which is why I am able to do my schooling online and still cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swan is able to continue her studies online while she runs a diligent training program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cycle, train every day. I train in the mornings; I am usually done by 1 or 2,\u201d she says. \u201cI just break up my day with training, school, and then recovery. It makes it very easy with exams or quizzes and assignments. I did some exams last year in the [Pima Community College] in Tucson\u2014Camosun just sent them my material and I did the exam here. They make it very easy, straightforward, and they are very accommodating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun Sports Management student Callie Swan is also a professional cyclist (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Swan has to balance her schooling with her cycling, which often means travel. She just returned back to Tuscon after a trip to Dubai last year, where she was racing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLast year I was in Dubai; it was an exhibition of the Dubai women\u2019s tour,\u201d says Swan. \u201cThey did a UCI 2.2 four-stage race that my team was invited to. It was only the continental teams\u2014we came in fifth overall. It was a really awesome experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swan has been travelling and racing for a year, and although she appreciates the opportunities the experience has given her, she\u2019s still excited to eventually get to where she can enjoy schooling with other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been away for almost a year,\u201d she says. \u201cMy family has been very supportive right from the beginning. They try to get me to adapt as quickly as possible in this brand-new sport that I have never done before. The community in Victoria has been awesome\u2014they\u2019ve provided advice and mentorship; it\u2019s really a good community to be involved with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swan says that she wasn\u2019t sure she could be a college student and a pro cyclist travelling the world, but the college has been helping every step of the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cCamosun has been very open to this\u2026 The professors, they\u2019ve all been so supportive,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been a school that I\u2019ve been very happy with. Every day I\u2019m really excited. With a lot of these races, I\u2019m still kind of new, I hadn\u2019t done them before, so it\u2019s already very exciting. It will definitely be a learning experience, but that\u2019s what this whole year has been about. The whole year, it\u2019s just about learning and experiencing and getting the most out of everything that I can. I\u2019m just seeing what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Third-year Camosun Sports Management student Callie Swan recently signed a deal with Macogep Tornatech Girodins de Bordeaux, an all-women pro cycling team from Quebec. Swan is living and training in Tucson, Arizona, while taking her Camosun classes online. \u201cLast year I applied to the team I am on, and they accepted,\u201d says Swan. \u201cCamosun had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-march-18-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t