RACHEL ADAMU: AN OLYMPIAN ON CAMPUS
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August 27, 2002, Bloomfield, NJ - Two years ago, 23 year old Rachel
Adamu of Plateau State, Nigeria, played soccer in the 2000 Olympic Games in
Sydney, Australia. This fall, she brings her talent and enthusiasm to
Bloomfield College where she hopes to major in Nursing.
Adamu started playing soccer at age seven. Her passion for the sport led her to start playing competitively in 1992 for a series of female national amateur leagues. Adamu also was a member of the World Cup Training Team, and traveled extensively across Europe to places including England, Holland, and Germany. In 1996, scouts spotted Adamu and selected her to play for the Nigerian Women’s Soccer Team, which is the best team in Africa, for the 2000 Summer Olympics. In the Olympics, she played against Norway, China, and the U.S. as a utility player. |
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“We were all treated like queens,” said Adamu. “The dream of
every athlete is to make it to the Olympics. You have the opportunity to
meet some of the greatest athletes in the world; it’s even better than
the World Cup.”
She arrived in the U.S. in January of 2002 to continue her academic and athletic career at Bloomfield College, and now resides in Montclair. As a transfer student from Plateau State Polytechnic University in Nigeria, she was attracted to Bloomfield College’s well-known Presbyterian Division of Nursing, which recently had a 100 percent pass rate for the NCLEX licensing exam. “I chose nursing because I love taking care of people, especially children,” she dais Her first game for Bloomfield College will be on Monday, September 9 at Watsessing Park in Bloomfield. Founded in 1868 as a Presbyterian seminary, Bloomfield College has renewed itself to meet the changing needs of the community. The College has earned national recognition for its innovative, high quality academic and co-curricular programs and for its commitment to serve students from all backgrounds, particularly those who have traditionally been excluded from higher education. Its mission is to prepare students to attain academic, personal and professional excellence in a multicultural and global society. |
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