Good Sports — Times Two
Friday, March 22, 2019
Some students have all they can do to juggle their studies and one Division I sport, let alone two. UNH’s Tori (Victoria) Palumbo ’22 and Eleonora Olsmats ’22 are two-sport athletes who are making it work. Palumbo plays field hockey and ice hockey while Olsmats divides her time between cross-country running and Nordic skiing.
TORI (VICTORIA) PALUMBO ’22
FIELD HOCKEY AND ICE HOCKEY
PALUMBO STARTED PLAYING ICE HOCKEY WHEN SHE WAS 4 YEARS OLD. IN 7TH GRADE, SHE TOOK UP FIELD HOCKEY, A SPORT HER MOTHER, MICHELLE ’89, HAD LETTERED IN AT UNH. AT THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL IN MASSACHUSETTS, SHE ADDED LACROSSE AND TENNIS. HER FATHER, DAVID ’88, PLAYED ON THE UNH MEN’S TENNIS TEAM.
ELEONORA OLSMATS ’22
CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNING AND NORDIC SKIING
OLSMATS SAYS PARTICIPATING IN TWO SPORTS IS ALL ABOUT ENDURANCE. SHE SHOULD KNOW; TRAINING FOR BOTH KEEPS HER RUNNING PRETTY MUCH YEAR-ROUND. WHEN SHE’S NOT RUNNING, THE STOCKHOLM NATIVE IS ROLLER-SKIING, A WORKOUT OPTION FOR NORDIC SKIERS THAT IS BECOMING A SPORT IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
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