student-athlete

At Notre Dame student-athletes are much more than just athletes. (The Center for Social Concerns worked with the Notre Dame athletic department to offer new opportunities for student-athletes to take part in service-learning courses.) Photo: ND CSC

How Many Schools Actually Have Student-Athletes?

January 29, 2014 by Lisa

I'm not really even sure what the NCAA's goal is any more. Are we in the business of molding and shaping young men and women by educating them? Or is getting an education secondary to being a college athlete? Take for example Florida State University: Sophomore Jacob Coker, who was beaten out by Jameis Winston for Florida State's starting quarterback job during preseason practice, has been released from his scholarship and plans to transfer. FSU officials confirmed Coker's decision on ...

The Evolution of the Student-Athlete at Notre Dame

May 29, 2013 by Lisa

In light of the recent quarterback issue at Notre Dame, I thought it might be helpful to take a look at what it means to be a student-athlete at Notre Dame. (Excerpt from Lisa's new book, "Echoes From the End Zone: The Men We Became") “I didn’t know what in the hell I was doing when I first took the job,” said Mike DeCicco, a mechanical engineering professor at Notre Dame back in 1964 when he accepted Father Joyce’s offer to become the Chief Academic Advisor, Student-Athletes, a newly ...