Student Maria Luisa Grohs manages the balancing act between playing top football for FC Bayern and studying mechanical engineering at TUM.
FC Bayern goalkeeper Maria Luisa Grohs is studying mechanical engineering at TUM. Student Maria Luisa Grohs manages the balancing act between playing top football for FC Bayern and studying mechanical engineering at TUM. About the privilege of turning one's favourite sport into a career, training routines and making sacrifices in student life: Maria Luisa Grohs, 21, is studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich - and is a goalkeeper in the FC Bayern Munich 1st team. You just spent the day at the FC Bayern training facility. How do you combine life as a professional athlete with your studies? No two days are the same for me. It depends where I am in the semester and in the soccer season. I'm in my fifth semester right now. One thing I've noticed: whenever I'm really busy at university, studying hard and keeping long hours, I play better soccer, too. It obviously helps my mind find a healthy balance. Then I'm even more focused on the field. But I've also realized: when things aren't going right on the field or when I'm injured, I also have a harder time with my studies. They're both connected. So you're probably very good at time management by now. Well, I certainly try to put in the time for university. There are good and bad phases. Of course when we're on the road a lot with the club, that's more difficult. But when we're in Munich for extended periods it's easier for me to spend more time in the library and I make a point of doing that. At the beginning of the semester I always think about which exams are my top priority. And towards the end of the semester I focus on those ones. Do you ever get time off?
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