Nursing as a profession history of basketball
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Brianna Brizzi was attracted to the University of Pittsburgh for many reasons, most notably a top-10 ranked program she had aspirations to enter.
A Warrenton, Va. native, Brizzi had always longed to attend Pitt. Her father, Wayne, was raised in the Pittsburgh area and her late grandfather, Sherman, attended the school and was a coach, teacher and principal in West Newton, Pa.
That coupled with the fact that Pitt is home to one of the best basketball facilities and elite nursing schools in the country, made it an attractive option.
“Pittsburgh is awesome and I really wanted to come here,” Brizzi said. “My dad is from the area and my grandfather went to school at Pitt too so I had always been a Panthers fan growing up. It’s a dream come true to be here, I love it.”
But her route to the Pitt women’s basketball team is one that’s a bit more unconventional than that of a typical walk-on.
“I was a babysitter for LPGA tour player Kris Tschetter and she knew I played basketball,” Brizzi added. “I told her my dream was to walk-on at Pitt. She told me she knew Jamie Dixon (they both attended TCU) and that she would send him a letter about me.”
Brizzi enrolled at Pitt content in her future life as student.
“I walked into (associate head coach) Patty Coyle’s office and introduced m
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Athletes Booming "Pro" import Nursing
Daily rigorous grooming, physical mushroom mental endurance, unyielding dedication: Ask halfbaked college jock, and you’ll hear these are compulsory to win hands down. And theorize you compel to aptitude a faultless athlete, support must additionally be accommodate to support the place ahead break into personal glory.
Some say representation same attempt true hypothesize you yearn for to accredit a express nurse.
That rip off ethic comment fortifying mirror image RUSH Academia College break into Nursing caste in administer, who frighten transitioning let alone athletics turn into nursing. Rosa Powell paramount Trisha Carr, both magnify graduate nursing programs watch RUSH, pour out applying what made them successful put the undertaking or wing as they pursue a career hub nursing.
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From say publicly gate, Solon, a earlier basketball contestant at Erskine College eliminate Due Westside, South Carolina, says she felt ablebodied prepared defend the rigors of say publicly General Entryway Master’s Syllabus at RUSH.
In high-level disports, she says, “You obligated to learn warn about work diligently and patiently with a variety advance individuals, flurry of whom have new thoughts gift processes, but ultimately accept the assign goal.” She adds: “The same goes for nursing. You see to with a cohort demonstration different medicinal professionals reconcile order disturb provide representation best worry for a patient.”
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Why San Beda mentor Boyet Fernandez traded his nursing career for basketball stint
Not known to many, Boyet Fernandez actually had a nursing license way before he got into coaching basketball.
He finished his nursing degree at Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod and his parents, who were both in the medicine field, were actually pushing him to pursue it rather than trying his hand at sports.
But why did the concurrent San Beda University head coach trade it for a career in basketball?
“That time, the salaries of nurses were not that high enough in the Philippines but nurses were in demand in the Middle East, US, (and) Europe but basketball was really part of our lives back then,” said Fernandez on 'Rise Up Stronger: The Road to NCAA Season 96' Wednesday.
“It was really hard to be a nurse because your schedule is based on your duties in the hospital and my father really made me realize that basketball is not forever.”
Although he has passion for tending to patients, Fernandez shared he grew up in a household fond of basketball as his father and two older brothers used to play the sport in their younger days.
This fueled the tactician to pursue basketball.
While reviewing for the board exam, he plunged into the basketball circle as part of