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No limits to a mother’s love, a wrestler’s determination
Judy Robles was 16 when she found out she was pregnant with her first child, who would later be born with only one leg. As Anthony Robles grew, his mom realized that he defied limitations — "he was going to figure things out." Anthony went on to become an NCAA champion wrestler at ASU, and his life story is now the focus of a new Amazon Prime movie, “Unstoppable."
This month marks the 10th anniversary of ASU announcing that its club hockey team would be moving to the NCAA Division I level.
When Natasha Adair drove to the basket for a layup one October night in 1990, her future was right in front of her. She was a high school senior being recruited by more than 200 college coaches. But as she landed on the court and heard the pop in her knee, everything changed. Adair couldn’t have known then, but that injury headed her down a path that would eventually lead her to become the women’s basketball coach at ASU. “People often ask me if I would change what happened,” she said. “No. It made me who I am.”
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ASU Law program helps women learn to master the golf club as a business tool
The transition from college to the business world is a challenge for any recent graduate. And women have long faced additional barriers, from the glass ceiling to the wage gap. One tool that might help? A golf club. That’s the idea behind a new program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU. Designed for novices, the Grads to Golf program is rooted in the reality that some of the most important business is sometimes conducted not in the boardroom, but on the golf course.
Shutdown of global sports could lead to a 'reset,' experts say
The shutdown of sports across the globe may be a good opportunity for a “reset” when the world restarts after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to several international sports experts, who spoke during a Zoom panel discussion held by ASU's Global Sport Institute on April 3.
ASU Global Sport Institute goes 'around the world' with digital programming
ASU partners with Miami Dolphins for athlete education
There is an inside joke among professional football players that NFL means “not for long” in career endurance. It’s why athletes and NFL franchise teams are putting in some off-season overtime, pivoting toward education and player development through the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University.
Perceived gender inequity in sport
Young women drop out of athletics by the age of 14 at a rate two times higher than boys. The reasons are varied, according to ASU Assistant Professor Alaina Zanin. Zanin and her research team were awarded an $18,000 seed grant from the ASU Global Sport Institute to find out why these gender disparities in youth sport participation exist.
Global Sport Institute celebrates groundbreaking black quarterbacks
Young black men who were quarterbacks in high school used to be “converted” — forced to play different positions. “That was what happened back in the day,” said Global Sport Institute CEO Ken Shropshire, who played football at Stanford University in the 1970s. Shropshire spoke Thursday night at an event called “Black Bodies in Leadership: Journey of the Black Quarterback,” sponsored by the Global Sport Institute and held at the Phoenix Art Museum.
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