My name is Nicole Cerulli, I'm a Junior
and I'm a keeper on the Columbia Women's soccer team.
So in high school I knew I wanted to be in a city.
I knew I wanted a Liberal Arts school.
I knew I wanted it to be kind of small.
So I came to Columbia and did one of the high school I.D. camps
and Barnard actually gave a presentation with some of
their admin and admissions people.
I am the only Barnard student on the team which was
a little challenging at first
just because I didn't have any Seniors to show me around
which is something thats great about the team.
Having Nicole on the team has been really great for
our program.
She brings  a great work ethic every single day to practice.
Not only does she work hard with the goal keepers,
she's always talking, she's just a good person to everyone on the team
and we really enjoy having her apart of our program.
For high school students or women trying to play in college
you just have to reach out and Barnard does a really good
job of telling perspective students what their mission is
and what they are all about.
We are the only women's college with Division 1 sports
So, its not like you have to choose the environment
that you want or to play sports, there are both of those.
I mean everything about Barnard I've really enjoyed
and you know I think its something that you know just
the intellectual mentality of all the players
the intimacy of the school kind of lends itself to that
and I think for her its just being a member of our team.
We have a thing called "The Fam"
she's absolutely a part of that.
and brings who she is to the program every day.
