MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Fans often overlook that some of their favorite college sports stars are just as busy off the court or field with their own field of study as they are trying to succeed on it. The term "student-athlete," is used often when referring to someone who plays college sports, but it's very few and far between that the everyday person really stops to think what all embodies that term.
Rutuja Chaphalkar, a sophomore on the women's tennis team at MTSU, grew up in Pune, India, a city in the Indian State of Maharashtra.