By Doug Feinberg, Hamilton Spectator
UConn star Breanna Stewart and her freshman teammate, Hamilton’s Kia Nurse, have had more than basketball to focus on at the women’s world championship. They also have to keep up with school work from nearly 8,000 kilometres away. Both will have missed about a month of college to play for their national teams — Stewart with the U.S., Nurse with Canada. Nurse, who helped Canada reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1994 before losing Friday to Australia, agreed with Stewart that the key to success is time management. “That’s the big part of being an elite athlete,” Nurse said. “Even though I’m the only one studying on the team, I find time every day. I’ve got an agenda all planned out, with what needs to be done each day for each class so that I can keep up and transition back to the classroom easily when I return.” Nurse said she’s taking one freshmen class online and missing the others.
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