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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 launches women's triathlon program
Arizona State University is launching a women's triathlon team thanks to donations and a grant from the USA Triathlon Foundation. The team of eight women will attend its first competition next week in a sprint-distance triathlon — a 75-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike ride and 5-kilometer run. Coach Cliff English has spent eight months building the team from the ground up, from recruiting the athletes to buying a refrigerator for their snacks.
ASU attracts Olympic talent as world-class training hub
The closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio Games come sthis weekend, but it won’t be the end of Arizona State University’s Olympic involvement. The school is positioning itself as a mecca where world-class athletes will come to train year-round. To create the right environment, ASU athletic director Ray Anderson said the university has committed to hiring top-level coaches, improving facilities and leveraging community support.
Former ASU Sun Devil recounts Olympic, athletics career
For many athletes, the Olympics are a springboard to prominence that doesn’t end with the closing ceremonies. Take Herman Frazier, senior deputy director of athletics at Syracuse University: The former Sun Devil brought gold to Tempe as a student 40 years ago before helping ASU to a national title in track and field, visiting the White House as part of the landmark U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow games, and embarking on a professional career that has seen him lead the nation’s Olympic delegation into competition.
Games begin for Cronkite journalists
Cronkite students are about to learn that the Olympics are all about numbers: About two dozen young journalists plan to file more than a hundred packages in a 24/7 news operation covering 10,000 athletes competing in 28 sports over three weeks. It might sound daunting, but the ASU sports journalism students are ready.
Sprinting toward innovation at ASU
In his time at Arizona State University, Olympic bronze medalist Jamol James has graduated magna cum laude and designed an innovative track shoe with a spike pin that can be customized for any athlete. It’s all part of a multifaceted approach that flourished at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where James learned “to have an open mind about learning, since the ideas to address many real-world problems don't come from the tools themselves but your attitude, which affects your perception, which affects your capacity for knowledge retention, which further affects the outcome/reality.”
ASU golfer earns prestigious Jack Nicklaus Award
Recent Arizona State University graduate and member of the Sun Devil golf team Jon Rahm won the prestigious Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award, becoming the second ASU student to receive the honor.
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