Kyle Murphy - Track-and-Field Student-Athlete #031 from GV Talks

Kyle Murphy - Track-and-Field Student-Athlete #031

47 minutes Posted Feb 4, 2021 at 9:27 am.

] An introduction to Kyle Murphy and his track-and-field career  

] Kyle’s goal in sport  

] How Kyle feels about COVID-19 taking away a season  

] Sacrifices that Kyle had to make over the years as a student-athlete  

] Where Kyle developed his competitive side  

] The difference between first and second place in track-and-field  

] Kyle’s worst injuries  

] Doubts about getting into Harvard as a Shepparton native  

] Competitive coaching in Shepparton schools versus Harvard  

] Nutritional requirements for a student-athlete and managing time  

] The typical goal of a Harvard athlete  

] Kyle’s love for his sport  

] Getting into a flow state when making jumps  

] Was Harvard how Kyle expected it to be?  

] Lessons learned from studying fellow students at Harvard  

] What Kyle is studying at Harvard and his career prospects  

] Kyle’s passion for photography  

] Who locally inspires Kyle?  

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In this episode, we speak with Kyle Murphy, a Shepparton native and track-and-field student-athlete currently studying and competing for Harvard University in Boston.

Listen in as Kyle discusses his career as a track-and-field student-athlete and how it gave him the opportunity to study at Harvard courtesy of the university’s need-based financial aid, his takeaways from his first two years as a Harvard student, and his plans for the future both in and outside of athletics.

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Powerful Quotes by Kyle

● The higher you go in a sport, the more it requires your time to remain competitive.

● The fact that Harvard has need-based financial aid, people can leave their sport if they want and they’re still a regular student. That means that anyone who is in a sport is there for the love of it for the most part, which I think is an amazing thing.

● To perform at your best, you need to be able to stop thinking about a lot of things and just let your body do what the training has taught it to do, and things will just happen.

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