In freshman year she was on the swim team and in sophomore year she added golf to swimming. Now a junior, Maria Linsky, a history and secondary education major, has settled on golf as her sport.
Linsky is originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where she attended Bethlehem Catholic High School, where she swam from her club and school for 13 years.
Coming to Cabrini, Linsky was interested in continuing her swimming career bringing her to a total of 15 years of swimming. After her sophomore year on the swim team, Linsky decided she wanted to change things up.
She left the women’s swim team, ditching her past life of swimming to learn more about another sport that she had little experience playing compared to swimming
Linsky joined the women’s golf team her sophomore year, while she was still swimming but decided at the end of her sophomore year season that this year, her junior year she would become a full-time golfer.
Linsky was excited about the change in sports while she still has time at school. She is ready to experience a different sport and learn more about it.
Along with Linsky’s sports career at school, she is also a resident assistant, a student ambassador in the admissions office and in the honors program and spends her spare time working at the tutoring center helping her fellow students.
Linsky expressed her love of being involved on campus. She says it keeps her busy on what sometimes, especially now go be a vacant campus some days. Linsky said being involved “helped me make friends and build relationships with professors/faculty which has definitely given me great opportunities.”
Linsky plans to go to law school to focus on “educational law and policymaking, to improve government funding for schools which would mean better opportunities for students.”
With all that Linsky is involved in many would think she was barely staying above the water with stress and personal time. She expressed that stress isn’t something that affects her too much but finding time to do all she’d like is a little hard to come by for her.
When it comes to stress between sports, clubs, societies and her academics Linsky said, “I take a step back and focus on the most important stuff so if I have to take a day off from golf or talk to my bosses at work in order to get my work done, they’re super understanding, which is what I really like about Cabrini.”
Linsky had not planned to be as involved as she is on campus. She “got involved through athletics and then joining different activities that my friends were in.”
To stay organized Linsky likes to write everything out in her agenda to keep her thoughts together. Linsky said, “I write a lot of stuff down and just make sure not to get too overwhelmed with everything but since I like doing all of it doesn’t really feel like work, I like being involved.”
After swimming, golf, being an RA, student ambassador, honors society member and a tutor and student, Linsky pushes herself every day. “I remind myself that I’m going to make a difference no matter what I do so it helps me stay focused,” Linsky said.
