Timothy's Features

Jewish UAA Student-Athletes Share Traditions and Practices as Passover Approaches

As of 2020, there were 7.2 million people in the U.S. who identified as Jewish, second only to Israel worldwide. UAA Jewish student-athletes celebrate their identity and holidays like Passover,…

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Fasting For Faith: UAA Student-Athletes Observe Ramadan

Four UAA student-athletes, including a trio from Case Western Reserve University, are among the approximately two billion Muslims worldwide currently observing Ramadan, a holy month of fasting based on when…

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History of a UAA Signature Event: The Track & Field Black Student-Athlete Dinner

Case Western Reserve University hosted a Black student-athlete get-together at the 2022 UAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, the first such event of its kind in UAA history. What started…

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UAA Black Student-Athlete History; Part 3: Full Slate and the Formation of UAA BLAC

With seven of the eight UAA schools running an active Black student-athlete group, NYU Senior Associate Athletic Director Janice Quinn reached out to men’s basketball rising junior Zay Freeney about…

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UAA Black Student-Athlete History; Part 2: Starts and Stops

THE FIRST WAVE OF MOMENTUM“After talking to Eka (Jose) and Caira (Watson-Haynes) at WashU, Black athlete after Black athlete started reaching out to me to share similar experiences they had and asking how…

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UAA Black Student-Athlete History; Part 1: UChicago and WashU Lead the Way

“You never come into college thinking you are going to create an organization,” stated University of Chicago alum Demetrius “DJ” Johnson, Jr. “You just see there is a problem and…

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WashU Alum Deko Becker-Ricketts Devins Rises to Top of Solar Energy Company Azimuth

From the time he was 16 years old, Washington University track and field alum Deko Becker-Ricketts Devins knew he wanted to pursue a career in solar energy, even if he…

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Trio of Women’s Track & Field Athletes Make Lasting Change at WashU and Beyond For Black Student-Athletes

Before co-founding Washington University’s first Black student-athlete group, neither Eka Jose nor Caira Watson-Haynes anticipated the leadership role they would take, but when they saw the need for the affinity…

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Emory All-America Track Alum Tommy Davis Finds His Calling in the Dominican Republic

Having faced career-altering injuries as a young man, Emory University student-athlete graduate Tommy Davis has leveraged personal knowledge and a passion for helping others into life-changing experiences in global health.…

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UChicago Wrestler Cade Creighton: Life-Changing Experience in Senegal

As he hoped when he decided to study abroad this quarter, University of Chicago wrestling student-athlete Cade Creighton is finding his time in Senegal to be the perfect combination for…

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