APRIL 15, 2025 — For as long as she can remember, Lauren Rios has wanted to work in the medical field. But a pair of surgeries that she’s experienced in recent years has cemented her commitment to give back to others.
Rios, a junior on the UTSA women’s golf team and a medical humanities major in the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts, was gaining experience as part of her high school’s sports medicine staff when she learned something that, as a 16-year-old, would be life changing.
“I was working athletic physicals and, also being an athlete, we had to get our physicals,” Rios said. “So, I left my workstation and went to do my physical. When I went to see the doctor, they listened to my heart and noticed a murmur, so I wasn’t cleared. I had to go see a cardiologist before I could be cleared to play golf for the school.”
“After golf, I want to go to medical school. I’m not exactly sure what I want to do yet, but I’m really looking at orthopedics and sports medicine.”
