Magdalena Łuczak became a student of the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business in 2022. She joined the Colorado Buffaloes team and has been successfully representing her university in the prestigious NCAA academic championships, combining her sports career with science.
She simultaneously studies at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz. All thanks to the Studies and Sport programme implemented by the university, which enables a harmonious combination of a sports career with high-level academic education, offering student-athletes flexibility in learning and the support necessary to achieve success in both fields. Thanks to this, Magdalena Łuczak can also represent AZS Łódź.
In the United States, lecturers had never encountered anything like this and actually looked at me strangely when I told them that it could all be put together. Fortunately, they don't give me a hard time. They often provide me with recorded lectures or materials. Others are more demanding and, for example, I had to finish on my own group projects dedicated for six people. Sometimes I could also only get a credit when I turned up. It all depends on how I organise everything for myself. A lot of responsibilities lie with me
– says the athlete in a material on the RMF FM website.
The individual course of education provided to the skier by the University of Lodz is essential for practicing sports professionally.
I'm basically in Poland only in May, so then I have a lot of work to do to pass all my exams, but I am, albeit slowly, coping also with that
– Magdalena says about the behind-the-scenes of her academic activity as part of the Studies and Sport programme at the University of Lodz. .
More information about the success of a skier from Lodz, a student of the University of Lodz (in Polish)
Edit: Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz
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