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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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Students in ASU Law sports program get hands-on experience helping run LPGA event
The Phoenix metro area provides a home field advantage to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and its innovative Master of Sports Law and Business program. Home to everything from Super Bowls and Final Fours to spring training and NASCAR races, the region is a veritable sports mecca — a learning environment like no other for those aspiring to work in the sports industry.
Communication scholars create messages to improve concussion reporting in student-athletes
Despite a growing recognition of the lasting dangers of concussions, leaders in college sports, including the NCAA, remain concerned about the low rates of concussion reporting by college athletes. To that end, a team of ASU social scientists, led by Professor Steve Corman of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, spent three years researching the behaviors of college athletes when it comes to reporting concussion symptoms.
A record 8 Sun Devil sports programs earn top 10% NCAA APR scores
For the fifth consecutive year, the ASU athletics department is second in the Pac-12 Conference, behind only Stanford, for most teams recognized by the NCAA for their high Academic Progress Rate scores. Eight ASU teams earned APR scores in the top 10%, the most in ASU history.
Peak performance: Gymnast makes her path at ASU, earns Pac-12 top academic honors
Anne Kuhm, who is graduating from ASU's College of Integrative Sciences and Arts with a liberal studies major, was named Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year for 2018-2019.
Who really hit the ball out of bounds?
In a paper published April 24 in Science Advances, ASU researchers tested how people interpret the timing and sequence of physical touches. Their findings explain why basketball players are often so adamant they know who touched the ball first.
ASU undergraduate research to be displayed at symposium
The ASU Undergraduate Research Symposium will take place on Tuesday, April 23, from noon to 2 p.m.
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