{"id":65416,"date":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/johnston-resident-skates-his-way-to-uri-graduation\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"johnston-resident-skates-his-way-to-uri-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/05\/johnston-resident-skates-his-way-to-uri-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston resident skates his way to 溏心vlog免费B站 graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2007 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 electrical engineering major and figure skater Alex Boeglin has found success in his college career riding on balance and dedication.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe balances his heavy engineering course load with long hours training on the ice. He started skating when he was 7 and started competing at the age of 12. His current skating coach is Olympic bronze-medalist Elena Grushina, and he is also a skating coach himself, working with students across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.<\/p>\n


\nBoeglin is a two-time New England regional silver medalist in ice dancing and has competed at the Junior National Figure Skating Championships, the Junior Olympic Figure Skating Championships and the 2006 Figure Skating Eastern Sectional Championships.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 21-year-old lives in Johnston with his family, where he has found a middle ground between the university and his skating responsibilities. \u201cBeing home allows for less distractions and helps me focus on my studies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n


\n\tBoeglin chose 溏心vlog免费B站 after graduating a year early from the Wheeler School in Providence. He said he knew automatically that 溏心vlog免费B站 was the right school for him because he feels it has one of the best engineering programs in the state. His father earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from 溏心vlog免费B站, and his sister graduated from the same program.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI also wanted to stay in the area so that I could skate,\u201d explained Boeglin. \u201cThat was very important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile coaching and skating, Boeglin has managed a 3.98 grade point average. He is a member of numerous honors societies and has received four scholarships based on his academic merit. In 2006, he was named the outstanding junior by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was also elected as vice president of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society in 2006. At graduation ceremonies on May 20, he will receive the President\u2019s Award for Student Excellence as the top student in the electrical engineering program.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019ve always kind of been a perfectionist with school and work,\u201d Boeglin said. \u201cI think that work ethic also carried over onto the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAlthough he still skates for enjoyment, Boeglin has currently put professional skating on hold to focus on applying to graduate school and summer internships. After graduation he begins an internship with Raytheon, and he will begin graduate school at Brown University in the fall. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

as top electrical engineering student KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2007 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 electrical engineering major and figure skater Alex Boeglin has found success in his college career riding on balance and dedication. He balances his heavy engineering course load with long hours training on the ice. He started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}