This weekend, I went on my second college visit of the season, to Dominican University. Dominican University is a DIII college just near Chicago by about twenty minutes. For this visit, my dad and I left at about five in the morning to get there on time for my campus tour which started at 10:15 in the morning. When we got there, we drove through big gates at the entrance near the soccer field, parked the car, and went to meet the coach, Jeanne Czipri, right off the bat. She was very nice, as I am sure all coaches are when meeting athletes. First, she got us set up for the campus tour and we went on a tour around the campus with one of the players. She showed us all around the campus. We saw almost all of the different buildings that classes were in, dining halls, dorms, and other facilities. Their campus is really nice and my dad made the comment that it reminds him of the Notre Dame campus since the buildings are kind of old but pretty. The campus is a comfortable size where everything is close together and the city of Chicago is only a short 20 minute car ride away.
This college also is the only college that I have looked at that has Neuroscience as a specific major, which is something that interests me. After the tour, we had lunch with the volleyball team and the coach. There were also two other recruits there with me going on the same tour and visit. One was also a setter and the other was a middle. After lunch was over, it was time for team time and questions. We walked over to a different room with some of the girls from the team and the two other recruits. It was now time for question and answers. We also got to meet with the coach one at a time, so while one person was talking to the coach, the others were talking to the team. We got to ask them things about being on the team, the coach, and get an answer from a student athlete perspective. When it was my turn to talk to the coach, my dad and I went into her office to talk to her. This was a time where we could ask each other questions. We had a long conversation and afterwards we went back to the room with the team and let the last girl know we were done and it was her turn. After meeting with the coach, we were done with the visit, so we left the building and went back to the car. We did make a stop at the campus bookstore before we left and I got some sweatpants from Dominican.
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