Spotlight: Lucky Dawgs
Ireland.
“It looks like a quilt with all the different shades of green,” says Anna Foster, a third-year exercise and sport science major from Macon. Foster was one of 12 University of Georgia students spending their two-week Maymester crisscrossing the Emerald Isle.
“It’s like patchwork. And it’s beautiful.”
Foster previously visited Ireland, so she knew a bit about what to expect. She’d even traveled to the Cliffs of Moher, a jewel of Ireland’s west coast and one of the Maymester’s mid-trip highlights.
The first time she saw the cliffs, the sun shone as though Moher was posing for a postcard.
On this trip, Foster and her fellow Bulldogs left a gray but dry Galway, arrived in Moher amid steady rain, and—before heading back to Dublin through a misty drizzle—watched the sun break through once more.
It was as authentically Irish as anything else they experienced.
And these students experienced a lot during UGA’s Sports Medicine and Physical Performance Maymester program in Ireland. From completely unfamiliar sports in Dublin to conversations and clinics with coaches and athletes in Galway to deep dives into Irish history and culture all over the country, this summer, UGA students’ eyes were definitely smiling.