Hi! My name is Tuulia Hyvärinen, and I started working for Zone Sport Services as a Sport Planner in August 2022. Zone’s goal is to provide accessible sport services for students and staff in cooperation with Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia universities of applied sciences (in the capital region). Administratively Zone is part of student union METKA, which makes me also a worker at METKA.
I was born in Oulu, grew up in Riihimäki and currently lived in Helsinki for over 10 years. My own path to this moment and this job hasn’t been that straightforward; I have degrees and work experience in hotel, restaurant and event business, personal training and now, most recently, I am a couple of credits away from being a bachelor of health sciences from the University of Eastern Finland. I finally feel like I’m doing my own thing, in the area of health promotion and sports medicine. Remember that it’s okay to look for your own thing until you find it!
What makes my work as a sports planner meaningful is both working with students and enhancing well-being by promoting exercise and moving. I am happy to listen to the students’ own wishes regarding exercise; what should Zone Sport Services offer so that you would want to come and exercise? You can come and talk to me at the campuses and call or send me an email, and we’ll talk!
Tuulia Hyvärinen
tuulia.hyvarinen@zonesports.fi
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