The Merrimack Minute with Tiffany Colon
By Griffin Kirkwood and Leah DaSilva
For Tiffany Colon, a senior guard for the Merrimack
women's basketball team, juggling a sport, academics,
internship, and a job in the Athletics Department is not easy.
But she juggles it all very well. She thinks it's
her aggression, above all else, that helps her keep up with
everything. “I just do whatever I have to, to move forward
and get everything done.”
And that isn't the only thing that helps her.
“I have always been a big fan of Tiffany because of her
perseverance and work ethic,” said head coach Helen
Williams.
The Lawrence, Mass. native has solid goals for her senior
year. She hopes to “do my best in all my classes and
leave Merrimack with a bang.” For basketball, she plans
to “play her part to win games.”
Colon, a Criminology and Sociology double-major, is making the
most of her education. She is currently doing an internship
with the Lawrence Juvenile Court, where she works with a Probation
Officer, and is excelling.
“Tiffany's ability to connect and integrate
her course work with her internship experience is exactly the
skills a professor hopes to see,” says her professor, Dr.
Karen Hayden.
In addition, her exploits in the classroom have not gone
unnoticed.
“The criminology major is relatively new. It has
been in place for less than two years. To see our first
criminology majors take on the kind of work that Tiffany is doing
makes the entire department proud,” says Hayden.
For the future, she hopes to “catch up with her high
school coach”, and explore coaching high school
basketball.
Tiffany began her college career at the University of Maine, but
transferred to Northern Essex Community College, and then found her
way to Merrimack.
“Merrimack gave me hope and the drive to move
forward,” she says.
And she is very glad that she came. Although she says that
“she is always making memories here, beating #1 Franklin
Pierce last year might be my favorite.”
