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HELLO, MY NAME IS ALLISON SKAGGS

 

My name is Allison Skaggs and I am from Orange County, California.  I am a student at the University of Michigan, where I am pursuing a Sport Management Major and a Writing Minor.  I intend to graduate in December 2017.  

 

I am a member of the University of Michigan Women's Varsity Water Polo Team.  I have been a competitive athlete for 12 years and will conclude my collegiate water polo career as the team captain for the Michigan Water Polo Team.  I also participate in campus groups that include writing for the South Campus Times and serving as a representative for the Student Athlete Committee.  In addition, I have a passion for the sport industry and specifically marketing and media relations.            

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This portfolio is an accumulation of my work in the Writing Minor.  The theme is simple in that it represents the things in life that I love: sports, traveling, and writing.  

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My work in the Gateway course for the minor in writing gave me the opportunity to reflect on my time living in London and allowed me to expand on my love of travel through writing an advice column for the new traveler, and a fiction piece for the curious fiction reader.  

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Upon my final semester in the Minor in Writing, I wanted to center my project around my other love: sports.  I created an interactive website called Skirts in Sports: The Women Who Play, to be the home to a series of essays that highlight the harsh realities of women in the sport industry.  I hope that this platform reaches women in the sport community and they too can have input, and comment on what inspires them to pursue sport.  

 

The writing minor has given me the opportunity to explore, in depth, what I love to talk and write about.  This portfolio illustrates that and serves as a home for all of my writing in the minor.  I hope you enjoy!

 

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