运动员校友聚光灯丹尼尔·弗兰克尔' 09
访谈由Eliana Mabe于10月11日至22日进行
Recent Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee Daniel Frankel ’09 came to Rhodes to get the best academic experience possible. 如果高尔夫是等式的一部分，那就更好了. 当他访问罗兹岛时，那里立刻成了他的家. Rhodes allowed Frankel to experience it all - in addition to playing golf, 弗兰克尔能够追求他对音乐的热爱, 参加正规博彩十大网站排名歌手, 主人的歌手, 和孟菲斯歌剧院.
After graduation, Frankel felt like most recent grads, unsure of what to do next. 尽管他考虑过进入房地产行业, fate came knocking: Frankel received an offer to work for the PGA tournament. Today, Frankel works as the Director of Junior Golf at Metropolitan PGA, a position that allows him to marry his passions of golf and service to others. 下面是他的更多故事:
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What was your commitment process like as an athlete in golf at Rhodes?
丹尼尔·弗兰克尔:
It was really important to me and to my family that no matter what, 我上的是最好的学校. And if golf could be a part of that equation, then that would be even better. But I always had the idea that I wanted to find the best academic school. 来自东北, I wanted to go somewhere with a little bit of a warmer climate, so that I was able to continue playing golf all year round as opposed to just half of the year. 快进到我高中最后一年的一月份, and my dad bought one of those 300 colleges that changes lives books, and he said “I'm gonna sit down with you and we're gonna go through this and let's pick three schools that we think might be a good fit to explore that we haven't looked at.其中一所学校就是正规博彩十大网站排名学院. And that weekend I was on a plane to Memphis to meet Coach Cochran. 我就在这里. 这已经是很久以后的事了——差不多20年以后了. It was truly the greatest experience I could have ever asked for.
EM:
Were you able to meet Coach Cochran in person and spend the weekend with the team?
DF:
It was a home from the second that I stepped my foot on the campus, I just knew that this was the right place for me and that I felt especially blessed. And one of the big things that I always say to all of the kids who are coming up and really want to get recruited by a college is there's no other time in your life when you're going to have the opportunity to play a college sport. 这四年是唯一一次. And if you can find a way to find the right school that has the best of both academics and being able to compete it's the most special experience you could ever have in your life.
EM:
How did your personal game change as you started working with kids?
DF:
随着罗得岛的年岁渐长, 我在自己的游戏中缺乏同样的动力, but I felt that I was really good at helping others to produce their best work. 我真的很喜欢帮助别人, 无论是在高尔夫球场上, 离开高尔夫球场, 在任何地方. 我想尽我所能让世界变得更美好. 碰巧的是高尔夫, 更确切地说，是青少年高尔夫, has been a powerful vehicle for me to be able to give back and to help people see the best in themselves and feel as best they can about themselves.
EM:
作为一名学生运动员，你是如何找到平衡的? Were you still glad after four years that you decided to be a student athlete?
DF:
我在正规博彩十大网站排名歌手, 我在《正规博彩十大网站排名》里, 我是孟菲斯歌剧院的一员, I was a part of CODA – I had a lot of really amazing programs that I was passionate about at Rhodes. I was so blessed to be able to pursue each and every one of them, but one of the lessons I learned was the more things I was involved with, 在某一件事上做到最好就越难. 不管这是一回事, 五件事, 尽可能多地做你热爱的事情, 但也要意识到，你参与的越多, sometimes it gets a little bit more challenging to be your best in that one specific area.
EM:
你的声音老师是谁?
DF:
Dr. 卡罗尔·布兰肯希普. 她太神奇了. 直到今天她还是我的好朋友之一. In fact, 当我告诉她我要进入名人堂的时候, I texted her to let her know I was coming to Homecoming and bringing my family. And her response was “You need to let me know when it is because I wouldn't miss that for the world.” Oh. 你们知道, 我离罗兹岛差不多15年了, 直到今天, it just shows what a high-quality human being she is and what an amazing mentor and friend to still care so much.
EM:
So what was that like being on the Men’s Golf team and does teamwork translate into your job today working at PGA?
DF:
I strongly encourage each and every junior golfer that I come across to do whatever they can to be part of a collegiate golf team, because that's the only time in their lives that they'll be able to experience that team atmosphere and camaraderie. And whether you play in every tournament or you don't play in any tournaments, 只是想成为这个团队的一员. 这真是太特别了. And I wish that in general there were more team components to golf. One of my life goals is to make the game more inclusive and fun for everyone.
EM:
Do you have any final notes you would like to say just about your experience at Rhodes or being an athlete at Rhodes?
DF:
Rhodes was the best college experience that I personally could have asked for. 那是我的“家”. 这就是我的"命中注定". 我在罗兹学到的一切都为我做好了准备. I would say I ended up at Rhodes because I didn't want to go to the same 40, 50 colleges that everyone from my high school goes to in the northeast. 我真的想要一种不同的体验. 罗兹岛不仅美丽，而且学术水平很高, 它也有任何你想要追求的东西. If Rhodes doesn't have a specific program or something that you're interested in directly at the school, I can guarantee you they will find a way for you to be involved in that project or passion in the city of Memphis.
埃莉安娜·梅贝，23岁, 正规博彩十大网站排名发展实习生, is a Media studies major with a Theatre and 宗教研究 double minor from 科罗拉多州 Springs, 科罗拉多州.