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Staff writer Stephanie Green profiled Professor Marie Flocco, especially about her love of the water. - Photo via Rowan.edu

Green: Teacher in the Water and the Classroom

Stephanie Green December 8, 2021

From the water to the classroom, Marie Haughton Flocco has dedicated much of her life to teaching others. After spending childhood competitively swimming alongside her five older siblings, Flocco had...

Senior Emily Kopchick performed breaststroke for the Rowan University Swimming and Diving team for four years. Here, she discusses how NCAA DIII athletics' few material motivations curate a culture where all athletes must perform out of passion. - Photo courtesy of Rowan Athletics

Kopchick: DIII Athletes Set the Example for Passion-Driven Lifestyle

Emily Kopchick April 14, 2021

As a member of the varsity swim team for all four of my years at Rowan, the amount of time we spent training weekly qualified as having a part-time job. My classmates and parents often questioned my reasons...

Junior Emily Kopchick stands out both in the biochemistry lab (left) and in the swimming pool (right). She conducts research with biochemistry Department Head Gregory Caputo, and also has top times in the women's breaststroke sprint events. - Editor-in-Chief / Tara Lonsdorf (left) & photo courtesy of Rowan Athletics (right)

Standout swimmer-scientist Emily Kopchick represents Rowan in athletics, academics

Tara Lonsdorf December 4, 2019

Junior biochemistry major Emily Kopchick likes to talk about how the human body wasn't physiologically designed to swim - and that even so, it swims anyway. As the top-ranked breaststroker in the...

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