Soccer World Cup: Meet Michelle Alozie, Nigeria’s Star Player Pursuing A Career In Medicine
The 26-year-old may be a professional soccer player, but she still sees it as a passion. That is why she has goals that lie outside of sports. Alozie graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.
“It was a place where I can get a world renowned education while continuing my passion for soccer,” she told the university.
Alozie works part-time as a cancer research technician at Texas Children’s Hospital. She was hired to assist Dr. Alex Stevens in her pediatric leukemia research lab.
“If I finish here (with the Dash) at noon or 1 p.m., I’ll run over to the lab,” Alozie told ABC13 Eyewitness News about how she balances her schedule. “Thankfully, it’s really close to our facility, so I’ll just run over to the med center and help out with wherever my coworkers left off. I’ll usually go in on weekends, too.”
The California native plans on pursuing a career in medicine in the long term.
“At the end of day, it’s just a passion,” she said of soccer. “I’m fighting for this little girl inside me who has always wanted to play soccer and has always wanted to be an awesome, cool doctor.”
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