Across the Court and Across the Globe: The Story of Anais Nussaume

    The journey of Anais Nussaume is one that spans 18 hours of flight time and an 11 hour time difference. She is a Division 1 tennis player at Temple University who hails all the way from Bangkok, Thailand.

   Many normal college students experience difficulties in balancing time and work and any extracurricular, but Ms. Nussaume takes that to a whole new level.  Not only is she currently pursuing a major through Fox Business school, but she is also adjusting to the culture shock that is North Philadelphia. Coming from such a distant country can be a real burden on anyone, specifically a young adult such as Nussaume.

   Reporter Reyn Sugai also spoke with Nick Placke, a senior advisor to foreign athletes, about some of the stuggles they may face coming to this new country. Placke was very forthcoming about how many international students find it difficult to adjust to the curriculum here in America, however in the long run, the student athletes from abroad, are often very successful.

 

Behind the Scenes and On Location

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This Photo Story gives a behind the scenes look on the process of shooting and obtaining the content used for the production of this news story. It gives an inside look into the daily workings of women’s tennis player, Anais Nussaume, and student-athlete advisor, Nick Placke. Nussaume and Placke were photographed throughout their interviews and during their daily activities.

A Foreign Transition: The Story of Anais Nussaume

Being a division one athlete is commonly acknowledged as being a difficult challenge for any student, the grades, the games, the practices, the time commitments, all of these tasks pile up and can really become quite tricky at times to manage. However, there are a select few of these division one athletes that face and even greater task of adapting to a new country as well as a totally different lifestyle; student athletes from foreign countries often face all of the aforementioned challenges but often have a language barrier on top of that, making for a very difficult transition. One of these division one athletes who hail from a country abroad is Anais Nussaume.

Anais is approximately 18 hours away from her home city in Bangkok, Thailand which is also on an 11 hour time difference. Nussaume plays tennis for Temple University, where she posted a 13-8 record this season. . While posting this impressive record, Anais managed to record the third most singles matches on a team, which as a freshman is quite an accomplishment.

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to our news site! Pictured above is Group 7 Section 4 of Audio Visual Newsgathering at Temple University. This website will consist entirely of the work done by the three men pictured above.

(Pictured from left to right:) Clifford Augustin, Reyn Sugai, Jamie Gray