At the Sept. 18-19 UC Board of Regents meeting, UC Olympians and Paralympians were invited to share their reflections on the Summer Games in Paris. Eight UC athletes spoke, including Tara Prentice (above, smiling), a former Anteater water polo player. “When I entered UC Irvine, both my parents had never even gone to college, and I didn’t know what I wanted to achieve in college,” Prentice said. “I ended up leaving with two master’s and two undergraduate degrees. I don’t say that to say, ‘Look at me,’ but when you put yourself in such positive environments and allow yourself to be a dreamer and let yourself be inspired by those around you, they really can see something in you that you potentially don’t see in yourself. That’s the greatest gift the UC system, and especially UC Irvine, gave to me.”
