Waking up at 5 a.m. daily, Devon Miller, a junior soccer player, starts her busy day. Living the life of a Cabrini Cavalier is not so easy sometimes. For Miller, being a Cavalier means practice, work and time management.
Juggling a job at a daycare in addition to school and soccer, Miller looks to her friends, family and coaches for support. Miller said, “I wouldn’t be able to do it without the support from my family and coaches.”
Friendship is also important to Miller. Not only has she met her best friends during preseason, they have been close with one another ever since.
Miller started playing soccer when she was only four-years-old before she knew it would become her favorite sport. It was not until the age of seven when she crossed over into the competitive side of soccer. This is when soccer became being part of a team.
Everyone needed to work together to play the game. Soccer became a nice stress reliever and a nice getaway from the everyday work and school. In addition Miller has always had her friends by her side to support one another.
Cabrini interns at Miller’s mother’s work put the idea of Cabrini College as a choice into her head. After her mother had recommended looking at Cabrini, Miller thought she would check it out and see what all the hype was about.
After visiting campus and meeting with the soccer coaches, Miller knew Cabrini was the right choice for her. Not only could she feel the support from the coaches right off the bat, she felt as though she was on the same page with them.
Winning the championship for a third consecutive year, Miller and her teammates have formed a special bond with one another.
“We all try to do things together,” Miller said. Not only do they play on the field together, these Cavaliers also put together team events to keep each other close.
Miller would be nowhere without the support from her team and coaches.
Miller said, “Being a junior and looking back, I am definitely shocked at what I have been able to accomplish.”
Switching majors from pre-physical therapy to psychology, somehow Miller finds time to make it all work on a day-to-day basis.
“It’s definitely challenging. Normally I try to dedicate certain hours of the day to the library and get as much work as I can done,” Miller said.
It was the ideas of being able to look into the brain and connect it to different illnesses that attracted her to psychology along with the professors always willing to help no matter what. This really swayed her to switch majors.
