One of the things I have learned here being a tennis player is . I learned a lot of skills like resilience , discipline , time management , especially having to balance academics with sports is probably the hardest thing , especially when I came here . It's so different from high school , but you learn all that also teamwork .
Some things I would like people to know about me outside of tennis is I , my background . Can be a bit challenging since I moved from Venezuela to the United States about 4 years ago . It's not been easy , but I have learned a lot of things here and I'm very grateful with this .
Hello , my name is Lorena Cedeno , and I'm a tennis player at YCU . One of the best advice I've been given from my coaches has been to just push it through no matter what the situation is , especially as a student athlete , like we face a lot of challenges and you just , you don't have a choice . You basically just instead of complaining , you just have to get it through and Do the best you can .
For me tennis is more about mental , it's more mental , so I try to find ways to , I don't know , stay more positive , stay calm because that's definitely the biggest challenge I have to face in tennis personally . My recruiting process was really hard actually , before I came here I was facing a lot of challenges , personal and and school and tennis everywhere and it just happened at the same time , but I managed to get it through and especially because I was having a hard time trying to find my transcript for the school and it was a big issue with that and to sign in the school , I needed those papers and it was a really struggle , but it worked out at the end . Well , my mom helped me because obviously I was , I was a senior in high school .
I try to focus . For me tennis is more about mental , it's more mental , so I try to find ways to , I don't know , stay more positive , stay calm because that's definitely the biggest challenge I have to face in tennis personally . My recruiting process was really hard actually , before I came here I was facing a lot of challenges , personal and and school and tennis everywhere and it just happened at the same time , but I managed to get it through and especially because I was having a hard time trying to find my transcript for the school and it was a big issue with that and to sign in the school , I needed those papers and it was a really struggle , but it worked out at the end .
