Achieve, Serve, Lead: Cross Country/Track's Alexandra Markovich

Name: Alexandra Markovich
Team: Women's Cross Country / Track & Field
Year: Senior
Major: Politics
High School: Hawken School
Hometown: Solon, Ohio

Athletic Accomplishments:
Top runner for the cross country team this season and ran in the NCAA Cross Country Championship in 2015. She also was a scorer at the 2016 Ivy League Heps in the steeplechase and qualified for the NCAA Regionals in the event, while earning USTFCCCA All-Academic honors. Last weekend, she earned second-team All-Ivy League honors at the Cross Country Heptagonal Championships.

Off the Field:
Markovich works as a freelance journalist when she is not busy being a varsity cross country runner or an Residential College Advisor (RCA). The University Press Club gives her this oppourtunity, which is a group of student freelancers on campus who write for regional and national publications for pay. She joined the group her sophomore year because she loves writing, and wasn't writing as much she would have liked during her freshman year. Her application for Press Club provided her with the structure to write consistently. During sophomore year, she started out writing for the Times of Trenton; covering arts and speeches, and in junior year, she started following campus climate issues more closely, and focused on protest and issues of race, politics, and religion in her articles. This led to a few of her pieces to be published in The New York Times as well as The Washington Post.

Over the summer, Markovich worked at The Kyiv Post, an English-language newspaper in Ukraine, which was an opportunity she got due to her experience in University Press Club. There, she wrote about protest, religion, and the political divide in Ukrainian society. She also went to Greece with a journalism class where she reported on the refugee crisis, focusing on how Muslim religion interacts with Greece's Christian Orthodox national identity, and the impact on refugees.

Markovich on Markovich:
"For me, being a journalist on campus means being engaged with the community. Being on a team makes me engaged with one community, the community of track and field and cross country. Journalism links me intimately to issues that matter for other people on campus, and so connects me to the rest of campus. I wouldn't have been as invested in campus protest last year if I wasn't reporting on it, for example. Not to mention the community of friends that University Press Club provides."

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