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When the track and field season was canceled last spring due to COVID-19, Loyola senior distance runner Derek Rink thought his collegiate running career had come to an abrupt end.
Now, after the NCAA gave extra eligibility to those athletes whose seasons were cut short, Rink finds himself balancing running for the Ramblers and starting medical school at Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine.
“I heard the news from the med school, so I’m like I gotta figure this out logistically,” Rink, 22, said. “Basically it kind of transitioned once I found out from like ‘I’m doing this for fun and I just wanna stay fit’ to ‘I get to be on a team again.