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Date:

Saturday, Feb. 18
8 a.m.

Location:

Osprey Plaza (Outside UNF Arena)

Cost:

$5 for UNF Students

5K 11 and Under: $10
12 and Older: $25

Fun Run 11 and Under: Free
12 and Older: $10

Swoop the Loop 5K starts and finishes at the UNF Arena Plaza and makes its way through the scenic campus. It will be followed by a 1-mile Fun Run for families and children and pancakes in the Plaza. Parking will be available in the UNF Arena parking garage.

Date:

Wednesday, March 22

Location:

Virtual

Join in to #SwoopAndSupport by making a gift of any size to the UNF project of your choice on Giving Day!

#UNFGivingDay is a virtual event celebrated by Ospreys from the Nest and beyond!

Date:

Thursday, March 23
7-10 p.m.

Location:

VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
300 A Phillip Randolph Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32202

Join us for a night of hockey and show off your Osprey pride as the Jacksonville Icemen host the Savannah Ghost Pirates! For this family-friendly evening, we'll be celebrating our alumni with first-come, first-served food and beverage tickets. Join us prior to the game for the Icemen's Women in Sports panel. You can purchase your discounted tickets for only $20.

Date:

Friday, April 14
10 a.m.

Location:

UNF Field House

The University of North Florida cordially invites you to celebrate the inauguration of UNF's seventh president, Dr. Moez Limayem. The processional through campus begins at 10 a.m. at the UNF Field House followed by the investiture ceremony at 10:30 a.m. in the Lazzara Performance Hall. The events are free and open to the public.

Sydnie Steele is a double Osprey, having earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and her master’s degree in communication management. Now, she is a professor at UNF and a Ph.D. doctoral student through the University of Kentucky, studying education sciences with an emphasis on educational leadership.

Originally from Missoula, Montana, Steele and her mother, current UNF women’s golf head coach Joanne Berglund, made a trip to Jacksonville. Steele was offered a track scholarship and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to live in the Sunshine State. As a student-athlete, Steele had a 6:20 a.m. alarm set every morning to get to practice on time, where a 2-mile warmup greeted her, followed by a workout variation of a 10x400m or a 3-mile run at a quicker pace and concluding with another 2-mile cooldown. Saturdays consisted of a 10-mile team run that usually ended at the Metro Diner in Atlantic Beach. When you include the designated study hall times to stay on top of assignments ahead of travel days, being a student-athlete felt like a full-time job. That is until her senior year when she realized just how quickly everything seemed to go by.

Her dream is to serve as a tenured professor, so having the opportunity to teach at UNF sets her up to reach her goal. She hopes to change the narrative of teaching. As a young professor, she has students in her classes older than herself, but she uses this to her advantage to relate to students and teach them in ways that are more conducive to their learning. She is fortunate to have such great role models during her transition from student to teacher including Dr. Matthew Ohlson, Dr. Stephynie Perkins, Dr. Christa Arnold, Dr. Michael Hallet, Dr. John Parmelee and professor David Conn.

In addition to teaching, she is completing her Ph.D. program at the University of Kentucky. Her cohort consists of six additional Ph.D. students and seven Ed.D. students all pursuing doctoral degrees in educational leadership.

Outside of teaching and studying, Steele is a spin instructor at CycleBar Gateway Village in Town Center, teaching classes three times a week. She also enjoys spending time with her miniature dachshund Winston.

After working in the media departments of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, Winston-Salem Dash and most recently the Reno Aces, McDonald has been called up to the major leagues! He will be joining the Cincinnati Reds as their media relations assistant for the 2023 season.

As a student, McDonald served as the sports editor for the Spinnaker and was involved with UNF Athletics in many facets as a student manager, ticket office assistant and media relations intern.

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