Florida Tech Scholar-Athlete Highlight Acknowledges Lacrosse Participant Maggie Reed

reed is majoring in Marine Conservation

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Being a scholar-athlete at Florida Tech takes an unbelievable quantity of laborious work and dedication to excel each within the classroom and on the sector.

We caught up with Panther girls’s lacrosse participant Maggie Reed, a senior who’s majoring in Marine Conservation, for this version of Scholar-Athlete Highlight.

Hailing from Middletown, Maryland, Maggie has been a fixture within the Panther protection over the previous three seasons, beginning 38 of a potential 39 video games in her Crimson and Grey profession to this point, tallying 47 floor balls and 28 prompted turnovers in that point.

Reed was named to the Florida Tech Athletic Director’s Honor Roll following the 2021 and 2023 seasons, in addition to the Sunshine State Convention Commissioner’s Honor Roll following her freshman marketing campaign.

Maggie joined us to speak about what she cherished about finding out her main at Florida Tech and what she needs to do along with her diploma.

Inform us just a little bit about your main, what made you select it and what do you wish to do with it?

I grew up on a ranch in Maryland my entire life and I had an early reference to animals. So, I knew I wished to do one thing associated to that. My main is marine conservation, and when taking a look at faculties, for schooling and lacrosse, I discovered Florida Tech and realized it’s the proper spot to play lacrosse in heat climate and pursue marine conservation with the IRL [Indian River Lagoon] and the ocean being proper there.

How typically have you ever had the prospect to go to the Indian River Lagoon?

Together with going to the IRL on my free time, the course catalog I’ve permits me to go to the IRL and the seashore such because the Sebastian Inlet for instructional functions.

So, the category I’m taking proper now for marine bio, we truly go to the Sebastian Inlet and the IRL, we take a look at organisms, ecosystems, sediment. We take a look at apply sure points to the actual world, which is actually cool for Florida Tech to permit us college students to really get hands-on with what we’re finding out.

What’s one thing you’ve realized at Florida Tech about your main that you simply didn’t know earlier than?

One thing I’ve realized right here at Florida Tech, together with marine conservation and environmental conservation versus general, is the steadiness of ecosystem providers and financial worth.

A big a part of what us, most people, don’t perceive is that environmental circumstances don’t get numerous consideration simply due to cash.

So, we are inclined to put a financial worth on pure sources, but it surely’s cool now that we’re wanting into sure ecosystem providers.

We will put a worth on these ecosystem providers, corresponding to the results of not caring for them, and it’s catching the eye of individuals corresponding to air purification, water purification, eco-tourism, and agriculture, the place we get our meals and our water. So, it’s cool that now we’re studying current this to the general public for them to concentrate to due to financial values.

How has being a collegiate athlete ready you for what you’re doing now and are there classes from the sector that you simply apply to your research?

Lacrosse has taught me numerous expertise corresponding to management, time balancing, and time administration and I believe numerous instances with biology, there’s not a proper or incorrect reply, and that’s very irritating for lots of people. So, it’s simply being affected person, trusting the method, and staying pushed to your plan, and your analysis.

Having the ability to deal with numerous points as a result of on the earth of biology, you don’t have a set experiment, you’ve gotten numerous environmental components that have an effect on it corresponding to climate patterns, and temperature, so that you simply have to have the ability to face all of these points and keep in your path and what you’re researching or what you’re making an attempt to resolve.

What recommendation would you give to an athlete coming to Florida Tech that has an curiosity in Marine Conservation?

My largest piece of recommendation is to get on the market, get your fingers on some discipline work. We’re in one of the crucial stunning locations in Florida with the IRL and ocean being proper there and Sebastian Inlet. So, in case you are going into marine conservation, there’s no higher strategy to be taught than to really bodily get entangled within the setting.

What’s one thing you’ve completed within the classroom that you simply’re most happy with?

After I graduate, I’m excited to use the data I’ve realized at Florida Tech to not solely profit ecosystems within the IRL, however coastal ecosystems everywhere in the world. I actually hope to talk for many who don’t have a voice, corresponding to endangered species, and for his or her habitats for defense and for spreading the data of defending marine and coastal environments, in order that it additionally advantages our human well being as effectively.

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