For some students in Marquette’s athletic program, the opportunity to play a sport at the Division I level brings them thousands of miles away from their homes.
While some Marquette athletic teams have more international athletes than others, a common goal for many coaches is to help their foreign players acclimate to the environment and culture of Milwaukee.
For Lara Kaiser, a first-year women’s tennis player from Vienna, Austria, Marquette was a perfect fit for her both in terms of the city and the team she was joining.
“I wanted a smaller campus, but I wanted to stay in a city.