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.

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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. 

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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.

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. 

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.