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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 9: Applying Leadership Skills Through Sport With Jarrod Barnes and Piersten Gaines

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As athletes, we learn to develop and flex our leadership skills through sport. Consistent participation in athletics has been proven to improve communication skills, time management, winning attitudes, and goal-setting methods. Sport-based leadership skills are essentially superpowers; and these turbo-charged abilities are not only useful in sport — they’re also key elements to being successful in our professional careers and …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 8: Mentors and Community Responsibility of Athletes with Carla Rosenberg and Desiree Powell

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Mentorship is a critical element of both personal and professional development. And as athletes, we often have potential mentors interwoven into our lives without even realizing it. These mentors may take the form of our coaches, our teachers, our athletic trainers, or even other teammates and peers. As our mentors pour into us, we should also give back and pay …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 7: Balancing School & Sport with Blake Jolivette & Jordan Borucki

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The opportunity to play collegiate athletics comes once in a lifetime and possesses the potential to transform the long-term quality of your life. An athlete could use this chance to develop and refine their athletic talents in order to create a career via professional sports. But even if you don’t go pro, the academic opportunities provided through collegiate athletics are …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 6: Athlete Mental Toughness and Well-Being With Daniel Cnossen

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Athletes’ mental health directly informs performance and overall well-being. In addition to ensuring that athletes have optimal physical health, athletes must also focus on mental toughness and resilience to excel through the adversity (pun intended, keep reading) that they will surely face both on and off the court or field. Despite athletes often being illustrated in the media as invincible …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 5: Building a Non-Athlete Identity With Andrea Hudy

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Who am I? That’s a question plenty of people struggle to answer; and as athletes, it can be an even more daunting and anxiety-filled task. Some athletes have played their sport their entire lives; and many athletes view their identities as being synonymous with where their time is most spent — on sport. Internally, many of us struggle with the …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 4: The Business of Sports With Bob Bowlsby & Tray Thompson

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Business and sports share many similarities despite the different modalities through which they are experienced and achieved. In both business and sports, you have to commit to goals, work on a team, devote yourself to learning, and be results-oriented. The parallels between both lanes are undeniable, and during this Trey Athletes’ Fireside Chat with Bob Bowlsby and Tray Thompson, we …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 3: Race & Sports With Marcus Stroud

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Let’s just keep it real… racism has been embedded in America’s DNA since the formation of this country. Black people were brutally sold into slavery and shipped across the ocean against their will to serve as a free labor force for European slave owners in order to generate economic gain. This was the beginning of a multi-generational trauma that Black …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 2: The History of Athletes as Influencers With Batouly Camara

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Reflecting on social change in America and throughout the world, there are many athletes who were giants, standing up for what they believed to drive transformational shifts in society.  From athletes such as Muhammad Ali, to Billie Jean King, to Jackie Robinson, to Bill Russell, to Chuck Cooper… to athletes that we may be a little more familiar with today, …

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Trey SZN 3 Fireside Chat 1: The Power & Culture of Sport With Ben Hunt & Rolando Blackman

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“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”  – Nelson Mandela  This year has been strange for everyone. The public health …