An inherited passion that today makes her happy. Sol Villegasat the age of 19, studies law at the San Sebastian University and gets excited when talking about basketball.
It is the sport that she has practiced since she was very young and that she found almost by chance, when she was accompanying her sister to training and suddenly she entered the field. “Everything started at Club Deportivo Inacap. My family has always been in the basketball, my grandparents and my aunt, who was the one who took my sister to practices. One day I also wanted to, I liked her and she just gave it up, ”he says. Solclarifying that the name of his club has nothing to do with the institute and is just a scope.
He was born and raised in Punta Arenas, before making the leap to Concepción to study law. “I was given the chance to go out and I took it. I have family here. I saw it as a very good option to grow from a personal point of view and in all areas. I wanted to enter the “U” because of my grades, although I applied for the sports scholarships, I stayed and now I am part of the selection, “she says.
He is in the second year of his career, so he has not been able to compete too much or have as much action as a normal season without a pandemic would have been. Even so, Sol He has known how to enjoy the beauty of the sports side at an academic level. “I have played Adesup and friendlies with my teammates. Sport is something that opens too many doors for you, to everything. I don’t know if I live basketball far from it, but I have had the chance to meet people and grow a lot as a person. The basketball for me it is an outlet when I have a bad day or if something bad happens. Training, everything happens to me. . There are people who find passion in the things they do and in my case it is playing. It is a relief, an escape route, ”she assures.
Studying law is never easy, how do you organize yourself to do well at university and complement your day-to-day life with sports? Sol He says that “as I have been playing since I was 8 years old, I grew up with the habits and discipline that my parents instilled in me. For me it is not difficult to reconcile sport and studies, because I do not know another world, I have always done that. I was a girl and when I went to watch games, I took my notebooks so I could study at halftime. What is always done, I did not do, around going out and having a good time, because on Saturdays and Sundays I played very early. If I got a bad grade, my punishment was not to train and for me that was terrible. I have always breathed basketball”.
