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2010 2014
SUA grad and NWSL
soccer goalie, Aubrey
Bledsoe ’10 will join
the Washington Spirit
for the NWSL 2019
season. Bledsoe spent
the past two seasons
with the Orlando
Pride. She is currently
in Australia playing
on loan with Sydney
FC in the W-League
during the offseason.
“We believe that Aubrey is a top goalkeeper in our league and
feel like she gives us incredible depth in that position,” said
Spirit head coach and general manager Jim Gabarra. “Her
development over the past three years has been exceptional.”
The Washington Spirit roster will have three SUA graduates
in total – Tori Huster ’08, Maddie Huster ’14, and Aubrey
Bledsoe ’10! Melanie Foster graduated in December from Ohio University
with her Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a
minor in Political Science. Foster moved to Denver, CO to be
a Development Coordinator with the Global Down Syndrome
Foundation.
Maddie Huster a senior
midfielder for Wake Forest
University, was the 26th pick in
the 2018 NWSL draft, where she
will join the Washington Spirit
alongside her sister Tori Huster
’08, a 6-year veteran midfielder
for the same team!
2011
Sarah Hulsman received a Fulbright Scholarship while at the
University of Cincinnati
and lived in Korea for a
year with a host family.
This February, she
traveled to Pyeongchang,
Korea to spend time with
her host family, and to
attend the 2018 Winter
Olympics. Sarah is also
working for Team USA
Field Hockey in Colorado. 
2012
Courtney Smith is living in Washington, D.C working as the
Study Abroad Advisor at The George Washington University
while working towards her Master of Arts Degree in
International Education. Smith is excited to travel to Santiago,
Chile in the fall to work for EducationUSA, a program affiliated
with the State Department, to complete her final credits.
Raichel Jenkins graduated early from Ohio University
and is working as a Project Manager at Catapult Creative
Advertising Agency.
Bailey Majeski a senior at Saint Louis University, will
be graduating this May with a Bachelor of Science in
Communication Sciences and Disorders and a minor in
Special Education. She is planning to pursue a career in
speech-language pathology and has developed a passion
for working with children with hearing impairments. She
has explored this passion through her volunteer work in the
community and shadowing speech-language pathologists in
a variety of pediatric settings.
Caroline Perry 
traveled to Seoul, South Korea where she attended and
presented at the International Conference on Information
Systems. Although this conference is largely for doctoral
students and professors
in academia, Perry›s
undergraduate thesis
was accepted into
the conference. She
presented research
about how information
and communication
technologies (sites like
Facebook, Whatsapp,
etc.) impact the integration of refugees. In October, Perry
presented her thesis and participated in the X-Culture
Competition at the Academy of International Business
Southeast conference. 
2015
Lydia Breitenstein traveled
to Iceland on an international
study abroad trip called “The
Green Program.” She studied
Icelandic history, geothermal
and hydroelectric energy, and
bio fuels made from rapeseed
oil. The Green Program’s goal
was to provide short term
trips to study the world’s
biggest problems in sustainable development. She hiked 5
miles to and from a geothermal river (and swam in 20 degree
Icelandic weather!), visited geothermal and hydroelectric
plants, and hiked on a shrinking glacier. Iceland runs on 100%
renewable energy (70% hydroelectric power, 30% geothermal
power) to power industry, heat homes, and provide electricity
to all its population. Breitenstein is a 4th year student at
the University of Cincinnati and is a part of the mechanical
engineering co-op for RBI Solar in Cincinnati working with
solar panel mounting systems. She has developed a passion
for renewable energy which is how she landed in Iceland.
2016
Erin Niebuhr played an integral role and part in the classic
musical masterpiece “Anything Goes,” at Baldwin Wallace
University, where she was part of the ensemble in the
production.