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Q&A with Allyson Moore
October 03, 2017 | Softball
Moore discusses balancing softball with her nursing major
Junior Allyson Moore is enrolled in the Connell School of Nursing and is a member of the BC Eagles softball team. BCEagles.com sat down with her to dsicuss how she balances academics with athletics, her passion for nursing and softball, and why Boston College is the perfect place to pursue both interests.
Why did you choose your major and what drew you to the nursing field?
When I applied to Boston College, I applied to the College of Arts & Sciences with the full intention of doing the pre-med track and going to med school. But then I did an internship with my school nurse my senior year of high school and she said, 'You're really good. Why don't you think about nursing?' Then Ashley helped me get into contact with the Dean of the College of Nursing and after that conversation, I switched into the nursing school and it was probably the best decision I ever made.
How do you balance your nursing commitments with your softball schedule?
It was tough my first semester, but I've learned that you have to be very organized. I come to coach with an excel spread sheet so we can talk about what I'm going to miss and how I'm going to make it up. The resources at Boston College both in athletics and in the nursing school are really awesome. There are many people to help and support you. When I'm struggling in a class, not only do I have the support of people in athletics but also the support of people in the nursing school who want me to succeed. I also have learned the importance of asking for help. But once I did and saw that everybody is there to support me, it was a huge step in me succeeding.
How has BC specifically helped pursue both softball and nursing fully?
There's so many resources and everybody wants you to succeed. They want you to do well. We are all nurses for each other and it's important to help everybody out because we all have this common goal of wanting to be a nurse. An example is during my sophomore year, we had a class called Nursing Theory and there were about 98 kids in the class. When we got a study guide for our final exam, we made a Google document with 98 people and every single person helped fill it in. It's such a supportive environment. Going from my softball team which is super supportive and my nursing school, which is also super supportive, is an awesome environment to be in as a whole.
How do you feel like your professors and coaches help support you?
Coach has been nothing but awesome with my schedule. I came in for orientation and I sat down in her office and said 'Hi, I'm a freshman coming in and I'm going to miss lift two days a week because I have Chemistry and she said, 'Ok, figure it out with our strength and conditioning coach and you're fine.' She's supportive about days that I have to go to the hospital. My professors have also been nothing but supportive as well. I miss a lot of class in the spring because of softball, but they let me make up participation points and let me have extra hours. If I didn't have the support on both ends it would be a lot tougher, but having support on the athletic side and the nursing side makes it much easier for me to play softball and be a nursing student.
On how being a nursing major has helped with softball and vice versa.
The concept of working with a team in softball has helped me a lot in nursing because I am very used to working with a team and nursing is all about working with each other. And then nursing has given me so much more confidence in myself and that translates on the field as well. Having to be confident in myself and my abilities and saying, 'Hey I know what's wrong here' and not second guessing myself has really helped on the field as well. I think that nursing has helped put softball into perspective too dealing with patients and their illnesses. So when I have a bad day at softball, I remind myself that I get the opportunity to play softball, an opportunity that some people do not get.
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Why did you choose your major and what drew you to the nursing field?
When I applied to Boston College, I applied to the College of Arts & Sciences with the full intention of doing the pre-med track and going to med school. But then I did an internship with my school nurse my senior year of high school and she said, 'You're really good. Why don't you think about nursing?' Then Ashley helped me get into contact with the Dean of the College of Nursing and after that conversation, I switched into the nursing school and it was probably the best decision I ever made.
How do you balance your nursing commitments with your softball schedule?
It was tough my first semester, but I've learned that you have to be very organized. I come to coach with an excel spread sheet so we can talk about what I'm going to miss and how I'm going to make it up. The resources at Boston College both in athletics and in the nursing school are really awesome. There are many people to help and support you. When I'm struggling in a class, not only do I have the support of people in athletics but also the support of people in the nursing school who want me to succeed. I also have learned the importance of asking for help. But once I did and saw that everybody is there to support me, it was a huge step in me succeeding.
How has BC specifically helped pursue both softball and nursing fully?
There's so many resources and everybody wants you to succeed. They want you to do well. We are all nurses for each other and it's important to help everybody out because we all have this common goal of wanting to be a nurse. An example is during my sophomore year, we had a class called Nursing Theory and there were about 98 kids in the class. When we got a study guide for our final exam, we made a Google document with 98 people and every single person helped fill it in. It's such a supportive environment. Going from my softball team which is super supportive and my nursing school, which is also super supportive, is an awesome environment to be in as a whole.
How do you feel like your professors and coaches help support you?
Coach has been nothing but awesome with my schedule. I came in for orientation and I sat down in her office and said 'Hi, I'm a freshman coming in and I'm going to miss lift two days a week because I have Chemistry and she said, 'Ok, figure it out with our strength and conditioning coach and you're fine.' She's supportive about days that I have to go to the hospital. My professors have also been nothing but supportive as well. I miss a lot of class in the spring because of softball, but they let me make up participation points and let me have extra hours. If I didn't have the support on both ends it would be a lot tougher, but having support on the athletic side and the nursing side makes it much easier for me to play softball and be a nursing student.
On how being a nursing major has helped with softball and vice versa.
The concept of working with a team in softball has helped me a lot in nursing because I am very used to working with a team and nursing is all about working with each other. And then nursing has given me so much more confidence in myself and that translates on the field as well. Having to be confident in myself and my abilities and saying, 'Hey I know what's wrong here' and not second guessing myself has really helped on the field as well. I think that nursing has helped put softball into perspective too dealing with patients and their illnesses. So when I have a bad day at softball, I remind myself that I get the opportunity to play softball, an opportunity that some people do not get.
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