Native America Calling: Turning athletics into academic success

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Turning athletics into academic success

Playing college athletics takes more than just a love of sports. To be successful at that level takes years of dedication, focus, and a good deal of talent.

Tune into Native America Calling to hear from Native athletes turning athletics into a pathway to academics at Division 1 colleges about how to recognize and develop their own skills, lessons they learned along the way, and how to deal with setbacks.

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Guests on Native America Calling

Eliana Malnourie (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Nation, Cochiti Pueblo), fourth year undergraduate student and cross country athlete at the University of North Dakota

Julian Greendeer (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), University of Detroit Mercy Titans Men’s Lacrosse team player

Kimaura Smith-Schindler (Onondaga Nation), Women’s Lacrosse player for the University at Albany, SUNY

Lance Kelley (Creek, Shoshone-Paiute), college instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College