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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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NBA G League partners with ASU, Game Plan for educational program
As part of its new era, the NBA G League is not only offering players more tools to improve on the court, but off of it, too. This year the league will introduce the NBA G League Education Program, which is designed to better prepare NBA G League players for post-playing careers. The program will be run in partnership with Arizona State University and Game Plan, a student-athlete development platform.
Women’s basketball kicks off season with upcoming discounted games
Sun Devil Women’s Basketball kicks off their season with a game against UTSA on Nov. 12. The team will then take on Sacramento State on Nov. 18 and Colgate on Nov. 19.
ASU quarterback on how he used training from Kush on Vietnam battlefields
John Goodman, a three-sport star at Encina High School in Sacramento, California, received full-ride offers from every Pac-10 school — but all it took was one meeting with Frank Kush to seal his fate as a Sun Devil. Playing for Kush was tough and often not pleasant, but Goodman said it developed his drive to be the best he could be. That would serve him well when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in the spring of 1967, eventually becoming a member of a long-range reconnaissance patrol team in Vietnam. Here he talks about both experiences and how they tied together.
Paint, paper and a lot of Sun Devil spirit
The pre-game banner has been a tradition for more than 30 years — designed and painted by the Student Alumni Association and held up for Sparky to destroy at the game. Watch the SAA students in action in our video.
ASU Prep Casa Grande partners with top soccer club in residential academy
The most innovative university in the country has joined forces with one of the top soccer clubs in the world to create a residential academy for talented young players. Barça Academy is the only American outpost of the FC Barcelona soccer club, and the team members can now attend ASU Prep Casa Grande right on their campus. The charter school provides a rigorous academic experience with the Cambridge curriculum and uses a blended learning model, so the boys can keep up with their studies while on the road.
Get ready for game day with 3 fascinating sporting events from around the globe
Sports are embedded in college tradition, and no other time reminds us of this quite like Homecoming. But what do sports look like in other cultures? Anthropologists from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change reveal the amazing and unexpected sporting events they’ve seen while doing research all over the world.
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