1999 Christina Arandjelovic

CHRISTINA ARANDJELOVIC
by Don Goodwin

1999 NIKE Bursary recipient, Christina Arendjelovic, was in her final year in the print stream at the Ryerson School of Journalism in Toronto.

Christina Arendjelovic

Christina Arendjelovic

Christina spent the summer of 1999 working in the Tennis Canada communications department, a busy and challenging on-the-job experience which she enjoyed as much as Tennis Canada Communicatons Director Steve McAlister confirmed, Tennis Canada was pleased to have her able assistance.

Christina spent a hectic summer assisting in the preparation for the 1999 du Maurier Open and working in the high pressure Media Centre during the nine days of the tournament.

Christina was always attracted to the media and journalism. She loved to write and in school was involved in the publication of newsletters and the yearbook.

A Brampton resident, she also took on her own high school column for the Bolton-Caledon community newspaper.

Christina has always been attracted to movement and activity, and has been involved in teaching ballet to children — and finding the natural linkages to sport and its requirement for a discipline body and the regimen required to perfect physical skills and produce the intended and desired performance.

Altough she had yet to set a specific career path choice to pursue on graduation, Christina was leaning toward print and was investigating options open to her, at the outset, in magazine work in the sports or recreation and movement field. Wisely, as should be the case with all enterprising entry-level journalists, she considered all possibilities within the profession worth looking into and cast the net wide to snare her first full-time job in journalism.\