Alyssa Xu ’25 Featured on NCAA.org: Turning Shyness Into A Superpower

Alyssa Xu loves stories. Whether chatting over tea with one of her Rhodes Scholarship classmates, becoming the managing editor of an Asian American Pacific Islander student-athlete magazine or being a listen-first leader when she was on the hockey team at Amherst, Xu has turned to stories to understand people. “When you develop strong relationships, you get to know each other’s stories, and your experiences weave together,” she said. “I am just genuinely curious where someone was from, how they became the person they are today and what they hope to be in the future.” Currently a Rhodes Scholar earning a…