Mike Joseph
MIU Tennis Team
Mike's Story
It may not be often that a senior, retired individual re-enters the academic realm as a full-time student … and maybe even less often that one re-enters collegiate sports at my age, but I AM … and all it took was an extended bout with life-threatening brain and heart issues to discover there was more to life than three-dimensions.
When the western medical and therapeutic industries couldn’t provide the encouraging and motivational answers as to how to prevent recurring bouts, I “looked to the East” for answers, and a “brave, new world” opened up to me. Six and a half years later, I am not only ‘mostly’ recovered, but re-entering university at a higher consciousness than I was at 18, AND looking to play collegiate sports this Fall.
I was introduced to TM just this past May and thru its daily practice, the changes to my brain alone have been exceedingly noticeable. That, in turn, has been the motivation to join the MIU Tennis Team and learn to play in a higher state of consciousness; to see what that does and where it will eventually take me and our team.
Sports Achievements
My first sport was swimming: I learned to swim when my Dad threw my baby-body in the pool to see what I could do. I’m still here, so his intuition must have been correct, even though the lifeguards weren’t exactly happy with him at the time.
Baseball was my next interest at the age of 7 or 8 and I was an avid player until High School when football became more of an interest. In college it was rugby. When I entered the business arena, golf became the medium where a lot of business was transacted and won; and I still enjoy it.
But tennis somehow snuck in there early on in life and has remained a steady go-to from my early teenage years until the major health upheavals. After the hospitals stays, surgeries and lengthy ‘re-coop’ time, pickleball became the sport I veered towards; and it was the friendships at the “Y” that served as the encouragement so needed at a critical time to propel me back into competitive sports again.
It is with such fond memories of the vital roles that sports have played in my life, the energy levels, spirit, amity and camaraderie of a team, that I now look forward to playing for MIU … and with the team that will bring things together.