Utah State Student-Athlete Services
Press Release
Contact: Brian Evans, associate athletics director
Utah State Student-Athlete Services
Phone: 435-797-1868
Fax: 435-797-1837
brian.evans@usu.edu
Student-Athlete Services: An Unsung Hero
LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 25, 2008--Student athletes accomplish many things and receive a lot of recognition such getting their name in the paper, photographs and awards. A lot of the time people forget the first part of an athlete, which is being a student first. You might ask how the athletes can keep up their grades and be so involved with the community while playing a sport. The answer is the student-athlete services.
Each team has its own academic sports advisor who is there to help each athlete reach graduation. “I feel that as an advisor we impact the lives of our students,” said academic advisor and tutor coordinator Shukria Stewart. “We are the ones they come and vent to, cry to, mentor and uplift.”
Being an athletic advisor is not all that student-athlete services provides. Each advisor has other duties to help the athletes become well rounded. There is an active CHAMPS/ life skills coordinator and tutor coordinator. “ It can be stressful, but like is about challenges,” said Stewart.
The athletes do work hard and get their work done, but who knows where they would be with out the help of their advisors. “ With out their services, I think a lot of athletes would not stay eligible to play,” said women’s soccer member Shannon Ross. “ They really help adjust to being a college athlete.”
The student-athlete services has a strong academic tradition. This tradition includes leading the conference in total number of Academic-All Conference selections 6 out of the past 7 years, including every year since joining the Western Athletics Conference. Utah State Student-Athletes have also led the WAC in Graduation Success Rates since the inception of that graduation metric by the NCAA.
Media Contact:
Alyssa Lowry
Public Relations
801-244-5367
Lowry_12@hotmail.com
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