Mary Kate Vanecko ’17 in her senior year at Holy Cross
Vanecko with students from the Johnson Nqonqoza Senior Secondary School, Somerset East, Eastern Cape of South Africa, during her Fulbright year
Youth boxers
in FLAG’s after-school program at Somerset East in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
Mary Kate Vanecko ’17 first discovered boxing as a way to cross-train while playing varsity lacrosse at Holy Cross. She liked it so much, she joined the boxing club at Trinity College in Dublin while studying abroad junior year. When Vanecko headed to South Africa after graduation to teach English on a Fulbright grant, it was only natural to pack her boxing gloves.