Brittany Holzherr, the new NYU quidditch captain, was featured as one of the 15 most influential students of 2011 (out of her class of over 5,000) in the NYU student magazine Washington Square News. 

The article talks about her family’s personal struggle with cancer and how it inspired her to get really involved in Relay for Life. 

Even with the gravity of the rest of the article in mind, it is still a shame that quidditch got relegated to just one line (“…and the NYU quidditch team, which she helped elevate to an official club sport”) but major kudos to Brittany for totally balling out and proudly bearing an Alivan’s broom in her portrait. 

Seeing stuff like this makes me so proud of how far this sport has come.

And kind of proud of Brittany too, I guess she’s okay. 

You can read the whole article here on page 28:  http://issuu.com/nyu.news/docs/influential2011