奥利维亚·佩斯，24岁, an accomplished jazz singer, is prepared for a career in 音乐产业.
If you combine a Division I softball player, an accomplished jazz singer, 杰出的学者, a student leader and an international sports competitor, 你得到了什么?? 奥利维亚·佩斯，24岁, who’s all those things and a whole lot 更多的.
Recruited from her hometown of Seattle to 打垒球 for 澳门线上赌场, Pess jumped 在 opportunity. “I wasn’t expecting Syracuse to be one of my options,” she says, “so I was really, really excited.”
With the help of academic advisors, Pess chose to major in 管理 在 马丁J. Whitman School of Management 辅修 音乐产业 在 College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her goal: to work on the business side of the 音乐产业, perhaps for a record label or managing artists. “I’d like to help people in the same way I would want to be helped if I was an artist,” she says.
Pess has received multiple athletic and academic 奖学金 在锡拉丘兹, starting with the Chancellor’s Scholarship, which she says have taken an enormous weight off her shoulders. “奖学金 have been a very big factor in my ability to give my best efforts,佩斯说。. “They’ve allowed me to focus on the things that are really important. I’m super thankful for those opportunities.”
奖学金... allowed me to focus on the things that are really important. I’m super thankful for those opportunities.
奥利维亚·佩斯，24岁
Focus has been essential for Pess as she balances her dual responsibilities as a student-athlete. She balances well: In her junior year alone, Pess posted a career-high .292 batting average for the Syracuse Orange and was named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Honoring Her Grandmother
Pess says 打垒球 gave her opportunities to travel abroad and to give back to the Syracuse community.
Her skills as a softball player have opened the way to international travel opportunities for Pess as a member of the Greek national softball team. Playing on the team is a way to honor her grandmother, a Greek immigrant who passed away when Pess was a sopho更多的 在锡拉丘兹. “She was such a pivotal figure in my upbringing,佩斯说。. “I’m upholding her legacy and her memory and representing her to the best of my ability.”
She leads her fellow student-athletes 在 University as president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which advocates for them and conducts outreach to give back to the greater Syracuse community. Pess is especially proud of an initiative to raise awareness of mental health and wellness challenges faced by student-athletes.
寻找工作机会
Pess balances dual responsibilities as a student-athlete.
去年夏天, Pess squeezed in a mostly remote internship as assistant to Bill Campbell, 赤脚媒体首席执行官, an entertainment consulting company in Rockefeller Center in New York City. “I got to really understand the roots of an entertainment business through my internship,佩斯说。, “how to work with clients, how to interact with people 在 professional level, while also having the privilege of learning from people in the professional world.”
I got to really understand the roots of an entertainment business through my internship, how to work with clients, how to interact with people 在 professional level, while also having the privilege of learning from people in the professional world.
奥利维亚·佩斯，24岁
In the weeks before she graduates, Pess is finishing classes, 打垒球, interviewing for jobs and considering job offers—both inside and outside the 音乐产业. “Having that business degree from Whitman has led to other corporate avenues that I really wasn’t expecting,佩斯说。.
Her advice for others considering Syracuse? “跟随你的直觉. It’s what you make of it, and things aren’t always perfect. But I truly wouldn’t trade this experience for anything.”
