{"id":6701,"date":"2020-11-08T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamstox.com\/slamstox-news-english\/university-spotlight-kent-state-university\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:46:26","slug":"university-spotlight-kent-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamstox.com\/en\/in-the-spotlight-english\/university-spotlight-kent-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"University Spotlight: Kent State University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week we’re going to Kent, Ohio for our University Spotlight. Here we will find Kent State University<\/a>, the home of our golf talent and Slamstox student-athlete Mayka Hoogeboom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayka became part of the National Dutch golf team at the age of 12. After years of training the time had come this year, Mayka left for Kent State in August this year! In the last few years before her departure to the USA, Mayka was very successful in The Netherlands: she won the national championships in 2018, both individually and with her Dutch team. Mayka also won silver twice in 2019: at the National Championships U21 and at the ‘National Stroke Play’ championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year Mayka won<\/a> also  the Slamstox-award of the year<\/a>: a free plane ticket to the US! Mayka did this by matching Hester Sicking with Slamstox, Hester has become part of South Dakota State this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayka has only just arrived in the USA, but we asked her to give a first impression of her university. Mayka said the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I mostly noticed that Kent State one Big Family is, everyone\u00a0supports<\/span>\u00a0each other!”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mayka Hoogeboom- Slamstox-athlete<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to know more about Kent State? Keep reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Campus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kent State University is located in Kent, a city in Northeastern Ohio. It is a small city of about 28,000 residents located on the banks of Cuyahoga River in Portage County. When students at Kent State University need a day in a larger city, Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Youngstown are a short drive from Kent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Not too big, and not too small’, ‘Plenty of facilities, but above all the personal attention’, that is how graduated students of Kent State University describe their university. The university was founded in 1910, originally it was only a teacher training college. In addition to the main campus, the university also has 7 smaller campuses, all located in Northeastern Ohio. Ohio State University is considered one of the larger universities in the state with around 40,000 students annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos show more than a thousand words, which is why we added the video below. A campus tour of Kent State. Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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