Chasing Your Limits With Dr. Alia Komsany

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 2 p.m.

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This episode with Dr. Alia Komsany is all about balancing your life and energy. From Phd to rowing, Alia is a perfectionist and talks about bringing her A game to all her arenas, whether as an athlete or a medical professional. Alia describes rowing as her passion project and sees it as an outlet but also agrees to being exhilarated by it. She explores the oppositional forces of her personality that identify with different cultures for having spent time growing up and living between Saudi and UK. An advocate of equal opportunity and positive representation of women, Alia believes it's not so much the brands you wear but the women wearing them doing the hard work. Listen to her episode now!

Dr. Alia Komsany is a professional rower from Oxford. While doing her DPhil in Medical Science at Linacre College in Oxford, Kosmany, a former amateur show jumper, was introduced to rowing. After immediately falling in love with the sport, she continued to perfect her technique while also specializing in cancer and angiogenesis.\\xa0 An inspiration for all Muslim female athletes, Alia encourages women to pursue their unconventional dreams.



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