{"id":17872,"date":"2022-05-06T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=17872"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T22:33:50","slug":"izzy-atkin-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2022\/05\/izzy-atkin-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Izzy Atkin \u201922"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Izzy <\/a>
Izzy Atkin \u201922, a physics major and a professional skier hailing from Park City, Utah, on campus March 2, 2022. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Photo by Sam Mellish <\/div> <\/div>
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Photo courtesy of FIS Freestyle Images <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

I am a physics major and a professional skier hailing from Park City, Utah. I\u2019m extremely proud of my achievements in my skiing career, which include two X Games silvers and an Olympic bronze. I\u2019m also proud that I\u2019ve been able to continue my academic career while training and competing in slopestyle and big air.<\/p>\n

CC\u2019s academic calendar has allowed me to take classes when I\u2019m not training or competing, and to work my schedule around the winter when I\u2019m traveling and skiing the most. I love being able to focus on one class at a time and complete it in 3 1\/2 weeks. This allows me to use the intensity and focus I\u2019ve harnessed throughout my skiing career on my academic studies. Many professors have accommodated my training schedule, whether allowing me to take a test early, catch a flight for a competition, or extend a paper\u2019s deadline during a hectic season. CC fosters a safe learning environment where everyone understands the pursuit of academic and extracurricular passions, as well as the balance between them and mental health.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say it\u2019s been easy.<\/p>\n

While the Block Plan and my professors have been extremely accommodating, the biggest hurdle I\u2019ve had to overcome is mental burnout. This past year I experienced a lot of it \u2014 the pandemic combined with concussions and a pelvis injury, which kept me from my dreams of competing in the Olympics, have meant my mental state suffered. It complicated the time I was dedicating to schoolwork during the winter. The fact of it being my fifth year attending CC contributed to this burnout. I had, for four consecutive years, been living in a delicate balance between applying myself athletically in high-anxiety competition\/training settings and applying my mental skills in demanding classes.<\/p>\n

This back and forth was initially enthralling. Never being one for downtime or sitting still, I enjoyed the lack of breaks. I considered my athletic and academic careers and corresponding personalities separate. Participating in one meant time off and a mental break from the other.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve learned to respect my body and mind and realized the importance of slowing down, taking time to heal, and being OK with failures or setbacks. The forced time off I\u2019ve taken this season due to injuries has given me time to reflect. I\u2019ve learned to listen to my body, to allow myself to accept\u00a0 help, the power of visualization, and determination and grit.<\/p>\n

As I head into my last semester at CC, I am reminded of all the amazing opportunities I\u2019ve had at this school; from meeting some of my best friends, to the amount of fun I\u2019ve had learning on field trips, to the relationships I\u2019ve built with incredible professors. It has, without a doubt, been the best and most fulfilling few years of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a physics major and a professional skier hailing from Park City, Utah. I\u2019m extremely proud of my achievements in my skiing career, which include two X Games silvers and an Olympic bronze. I\u2019m also proud that I\u2019ve been able to continue my academic career while training and competing in slopestyle and big air.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":17794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-17872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-22","tag-student-perspective"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2022\/05\/27_IzzyAtkin05-e1651852381374.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17947,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions\/17947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}