Maël Suchet
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About Athlete
My goal-dream or dream-goal is to be part of the olympic game waterpolo team of France, qualify and participate in the Games in L.A. in 2028. To me, there’s no better sport nation as the USA to get ready for it and to associate to it great academic achievement in business and administration so to open wide doors to my business career in sport.
GPA
Grade 11 (last year)
Overall average of 14.7/20
French Exam (advanced examen of grade 12) passed with 13/20 (writing) & 16/20 (oral)
SAT Total Score
TOEFL Total Score
Teams
- French national team U17 (played vs. Croatia, Ukraine, Bulgaria)
- French national team U15 (played vs. Spain)
- Team of Mulhouse WP - National 1
- Team of Mulhouse WP - National 3
- Regional team U15 (captain)
- Regional team U13
Championships
- French Championship National 1 (1st league after “Pro”) with Mulhouse WP
- French Championship National 3 with Mulhouse WP
- European championship (R. Robin) U17 French National team
- European championship (R. Robin) U15 French National team
- French Club Championship U15 Mulhouse Waterpolo (finish 4th, Captain)
- French Regions Championship U15 (finish 2nd, captain)
- French Regions Championship U13 (finish 2nd)
Additional sporting info
Biggest strengths within my game
✓Ability to anticipate opponents’ next move or pass
✓Fast bonding with teammates which greatly ease understanding of the moves of each other
✓Take leadership as captain with ease and confidence if needed but not necessarily my goal as teammate
✓Capacity to have the overview of the games, positioning, time management
✓Ability to adapt to several position depending what is needed for the team
✓Great ability to adapt to opponents styles
Personal Best
Statistics
• 50 Freestyle Time : 26 sec 50 ; training : 30x100m series with 1min15 to hold and start every 1min30 max
Awards, press
- Sole player selected for French National team U17 coming from a club with no Pro (Elite) team
- Bestunder18yearsoldscorercurrentlyofNational1French championship
What makes you different?
As a player, my greatest asset is ability to anticipate opponent’s move, strengths and weakness and make this ability a collective competitive advantage for the team to win.
My coaches usually describe me as a player with a “warrior spirit” that gives all he can to win and beat opponents.
To withhold such spirit, I’m very demanding to myself, perfectionist even, and often demanding towards my teammates too.
For example, I typically don’t understand when student - athletes, at times, do miss training and/or miss schools.
Most of my coaches also valued my ability to entertain the team, be a funny person that bonds the team together in the game as well as outside hence I have been honoured to be the captain of several Teams, in my club and at Regional level.
As an active member and at times captain, I also am deeply convinced about the respect that the team has to show to the staff and in particular the coach though I have hard time to cope with unfair decision, that’s part of what I am, ie demanding. Though very motivated and even upset often when a game is lost, I remain calm and am cautious to the power of team bonding in particular when acting as captain in the past.
My high degree of motivation translates into very diligent presence at training which I never missed even when pressure is high in my studies.
I am convinced that I can only remain high performer in sport and further grow with a peaceful mindset and for me, this implies be successful at my studies.
Another solid asset of mine was my past experience in Nice, 1’000 kms away from my family at the age of 15, to join a program of student-athlete. Young I already had to take care of myself, of my budget, of my path to success in sport (twice as many games as I played in 2 categories, ie U17 and U21) and in studies. I then decided to come back to Mulhouse convinced that I could play for N1 (2nd French league) whereas in Nice adults payed in Elite (1st league) and I reasonably would have little chance to be part of it at the age of 16.
Why do you want to compete in college?
My ultimate goal is to succeed in my Master and be major among student athlete.
I seek a Master in Business and Administration which wide-opens doors to an international career in Business, mastering English language, in a College where sport will equally open me doors to an International waterpolo career.
College Goals?
My ultimate goal is to succeed in my Master and be major among student athlete.
I seek a Master in Business and Administration which wide-opens doors to an international career in Business, mastering English language, in a College where sport will equally open me doors to an International waterpolo career.
My goal-dream or dream-goal is to be part of the olympic game waterpolo team of France, qualify and participate in the Games in L.A. in 2028.
Master in Business Management and/or Administration and ideally combine it with Sport. At first sight, I would prefer focus on sales and marketing rather than finance or accounting but time will tell during my studies if I change my mind.