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New, enhanced fan experience awaiting Sun Devil Football fans
Arizona State University isn’t just entering a new era with its move to the Big 12. The fan experience for Sun Devil Football games this fall will be new and improved, as well.
Thanks to a collaboration between the Office of National Scholarships Advisement and Sun Devil Athletics, student-athletes have support when applying for big scholarships — like the NCAA Postgraduate. Two Sun Devils won the award this year.
A new live-learn community empowers high-achieving undergraduates as leaders within sports media and the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.
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ASU grad combines 2 passions in sports and supply chain
ASU grad Natalie Zarasian is combining her love of sports and economics to pursue work that inspires her.
Dean's Medalist has passion for statistics and sports
During his early years of high school, Trent Lindstrom decided to study statistics. “I have loved math for as long as I can remember," he said. Now, Lindstrom is the Dean’s Medalist for the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.
Coach learns the importance of being a global citizen in sports
During her senior year in college, Yousra Manar realized she had a passion for the sports industry. Looking for a way to further her education and pursue a career in sports, she found both in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU.
Pandemic pushed ASU golf coach to get master's degree
Sometime early in the summer of 2020 it hit Arizona State men’s golf head coach Matt Thurmond: The Sun Devils’ fall season likely would be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a thought that became a reality that August. Maybe, Thurmond told himself, he should take the time to pursue his master’s degree, something he had been thinking about for years. This May, he graduates with his Master of Applied Leadership and Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
From planning events to doing the mascot’s laundry, Coyotes intern’s experience is all coming out in the wash
The names Suns, Cardinals and Diamondbacks were initially on Payton Padilla’s mind while he searched an athletics industry website for an internship to expand his knowledge of how sports are managed. When he came upon one called “PUCK internship,” he immediately realized he had forgotten the Valley’s fourth big-league organization, the Arizona Coyotes hockey team.
Media Enterprise on the rise
A growing collection of media properties committed to driving conversations that matter, ASU Media Enterprise is convening to scale ASU’s covenant to advance research and discovery of public value and assume fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.
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