How a Melbourne Vixens star juggles study and netball
The opportunity to move to Melbourne and play with the Vixens was an offer too good for Kiera to turn down. But with just one unit left to complete in her seven years of uni and limited options, a lot was on the line.
That’s when she came across Open Universities Australia. Kiera Austin went from thinking she only had one option with no guarantee of acceptance, to realising there were many equivalent subjects she could apply for through Open Universities Australia including Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychology.
“My lifestyle advisor [at the Victorian Institute of Sport] suggested Open Universities Australia. Oh it was a breath of fresh air. It's going from thinking I'm not even going to get one approved to having the luxury of two to three units I can choose from."”
How Open Universities Australia made it possible
By comparing courses through Open Universities, Kiera wasn’t limited to studying through just one university. Rather, she could access courses from leading universities all around Australia with the option to study from anywhere. It also made it possible for her to juggle her sporting commitments as a professional athlete with her study demands.
“In what was a very big year—the Vixens went all the way to the finals and I played in a World Cup—balancing that with my study was only available to me because of Open Universities Australia.”
While she wasn’t looking for an online study option, Kiera was grateful she discovered it when she did.
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