Personal
Name: Mia Grace Beaulieu
Birthday: October 20, 2006
Hometown: Cape Town, South Africa
Sports: Field hockey, Golf, Cross Country
Hobbies: Piano, Photography
Graduation Year: 2025
(2026 recruit after gap year)
Personal
Name: Mia Grace Beaulieu
Birthday: October 20, 2006
Hometown: Cape Town, South Africa
Sports: Field hockey, Golf, Cross Country
Hobbies: Piano, Photography
Graduation Year: 2025
(2026 recruit after gap year)
Field Hockey
Club Name: Central Hockey Club - Athlone, Cape Town
School Team: Pinelands High School, Pinelands, Cape Town
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 119 lbs
Primary Position: Forward
Secondary Position: Link
Background
I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and moved to Cape Town, South Africa when I was 9 years old. I was introduced to field hockey (hockey as it is called here) upon our move to South Africa as it is one of the most played and admired sports in the country. The national passion for hockey comes from the Dutch and English colonizers of South Africa and it is played competitively by both men and women.
I have struggled to continue playing field hockey as my school does not offer it as a sport. As a result I have played for two other high schools over the course of my high school career as well as two club teams.
I now play for Central Hockey Club, which is one of the top clubs in Cape Town. This past year our Ladies Grand Challenge (LGC) Team had four players attend the Olympic Games including the co-captain, and the Men’s Grand Challenge (MGC) team sent six players, including the co-captain, to the Olympics. Central sent more players to the Olympics than any other club in South Africa. I have been honored as a young player to have been brought up for many games to play on the LGC as well as being a fixture on the Ladies Grand Reserve team at the club.
Field Hockey Goals
I have just finished my junior year season (April 2024-September 2024). I am looking to be recruited as a 2026 recruit. I will begin my senior year season in April 2025 and plan to take a gap year after I graduate in May 2025. I will continue to play field hockey in my gap year and thus have another two full seasons playing at Central Hockey Club as well as one more season of high school field hockey before playing at university. This is the highest level of competitive play in South Africa for club hockey.
2023-2024
Central Hockey Club - Ladies Grand Challenge & Ladies Grand Reserve (Division 1 Women’s League)
https://www.centralhockey.co.za/
Pinelands High School - Division 2 school - placed 1st in division with an undefeated 2024 season.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
(includes driving time to and from practice)
Monday: Club practice: 6pm to 9:15pm
Tuesday: High School practice: 3pm to 6:30pm
Wednesday: Club practice: 6pm to 9:15pm
Thursday: High School practice: 3pm to 6:30pm
Friday: Gym workout: 3pm to 4:30pm
Saturday: I play 2 games: A High School morning game and a Club afternoon game. My club team plays 17-minute quarters, and my high school plays 13-minute quarters.
Sunday: Stretches/light workout at the gym
Cape Town Premier Hockey League:
https://www.facebook.com/ctpremleague
Drafted to play in the Cape Town Premier Hockey League for the Royals & Rebels for 4 consecutive years. CPL is a private hockey league with 6 franchise teams that includes drafted picks of the top 100 players per age group in the Western Province and Bolands region of South Africa. The tournament takes place in September each year and each drafted team is given 2 practices before the 3 day tournament weekend.
- 2024 - Royals - drafted by Coach Denzil Dooley (former South African Olympian and top high school field hockey coach in South Africa).
- 2023 - Royals - drafted by Denzil Dolley.
- 2022 - Rebels 2nd place in tournament
- 2021 - Royals - 1st place in tournament; MVP for one game of tournament
Academics
School: American International School of Cape Town - Cape Town, South Africa
Graduation year: 2025
GPA: 3.9 (transcript available)
AP Scholar with Honors
Senior Year (present):
- AP Statistics
- AP Environmental Science
- AP Literature & Composition
- Global Issues
- Impact Project - ‘Matimba’ - Cookstoves for women in developing communities fueled with sustainable grass pellets
- PE Health
- Advanced Marimba Band
Junior Year:
- AP Comparative Government and Politics
- AP Language and Composition
- AP French Language and Culture
- Advanced Environmental Science
- Global Issues
- Publications and Social Media
- Independent Project - Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries
Sophomore Year:
- AP Modern World History
- AP Seminar
- Advanced Physics
- Algebra II
- French III
- Global Issues
- Marimba Band
Leadership Activities and Special Interests
I have lived in South Africa for nine years and as a result I am more aware of certain aspects of poverty, lack of education and basic human rights and gender based violence. Education is integral to ending the cycle of poverty, but there must be good systems in place in order to achieve this and understanding the issues facing people in abject poverty is essential.
I have chosen to take Global Issues for the past 3 years as it provides an ongoing in depth view and constant discussion around the issues I care about deeply. For my end of year project, I chose to focus on education, specifically the lack of education for young girls and women in Afghanistan.
For the past two years I have chosen volunteer programs for my end of year “Innovation Term” projects - going to Botswana and Thailand. These experiences have propelled my interest in taking a gap year to further my interests in environmental conservation and activism as I am looking to do internships in both Costa Rica and Tanzania in environmental research.
For my senior year impact project, I have been working with my brother to create a company called Matimba - which means “power” in Tsonga. Matimba provides cookstoves to poor families in rural communities in Zambia paid for in part through carbon financing. I will continue in my gap year to work in growing Matimba and will also be traveling to Zambia. [Matimba website]
- 2024-2025 - AISCT Marimba Band
- June 2024 - Thailand - Elephant tracking in Northern Thailand.
- February 2024 - Ghana - Selected to attend AISA GISS Sustainability Conference. At the conference I was grouped with peers from other African International Schools to present a solution to improve the quality of education in Africa using goal 4 of the 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals.
- June 2023 - Youth for Conservation
https://youth4conservation.co.za/wildlife-wilderness-botswana/
Traveled to Botswana for conservation and sustainability volunteer trip and lived in an open camp (unguarded and not enclosed). Worked on an irrigation system; rebuilt dam for elephants; conducted wildlife censuses for hyenas, elephants, crocodiles and lions; engaged in anti-poaching work by finding snares in the bush; removed invasive cacti from Limpopo River. Earned 80 hours of volunteer service work. - January 2023 - Selected to attend the AISA - GISS (Association of International Schools in Africa - Global Issues Service Summit) in Arusha, Tanzania for a school sustainability project. Presented at Summit on illiteracy in Africa and volunteered at a local primary school painting school and murals for children of prisoners. https://aisa.or.ke/what-we-offer/programmes/service-learning/aisa-giss/
- 2020 and 2021 - Volunteered at Miracle Kidz Safe house (a local foster care program for disabled and abused children) and made a sustainable garden so they can have a regular supply of fresh produce for the 20 children at Miracle Kidz. http://www.miraclekidz.co.za/
- April 2023 - Volunteered at Lawrence House (a local orphanage) helping to organize a school wide drive for books and sanitary products as well as tutoring children in English writing and reading.
- 2022–2023 AISCT Marimba Band
Contact — South Africa
Mia Beaulieu
+27 63-062-3728
Parent contact:
Kristin Beaulieu
+27 76-541-4086
