Texas Tech University Athletics
Texas Tech Academic Services partners with Career Athletes
August 25, 2010 | General
Aug. 25, 2010
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech University Athletics recently agreed to a multi-year partnership with Career Athletes as the first school partner in the Big 12 South.
This partnership provides a national representation of unique networking opportunities and career development resources for both current and alumni student-athletes.
Felicia Martin, Associate Athletic Director of Athletic Academic Services, said, "The most important thing for us to do from our perspective is to make certain that we are doing all we can to put our student-athletes in a position to do well academically, personally and athletically. This is an opportunity for us to engage student-athletes in their professional careers and to encourage more focus on life after sport," she added.
This Online Career Community Network will provide benefits such as mentoring, professional networking, virtual career coaching and best practices from the leading and largest career services organization assisting athletes, athletic departments and campus career centers.
"Providing quality career development for our student-athletes is always a top priority. Life after college can be a difficult and challenging time. Therefore, we are very excited about the services our student-athletes will receive from Career Athletes to help them transition from the playing field into their future careers," said Justin Paysinger, Director of Student-Athlete Affairs in the Texas Tech University Athletics Department.
The Texas Tech University Community Network consists of current and alumni athletes from the institution as well as local, regional and national employers all managed and monitored by Career Athletes at its home office in the Kansas City area. Individual members of Career Athletes are also able to network with more than 65,000 community members from across the nation while having access to more than 5,000 career opportunities exclusive to the company.
"We are pleased to assist Texas Tech Athletics with its commitment toward career development of athletes, but it is also just as important to recognize the program's culture of achievement in community service, academic performance and athletic success," shared DJ Washington, Vice President, Career Education and Training.
Texas Tech is no stranger to success as indicated by these representative accomplishments during the 2009-2010 academic year:
- More than 180 student-athletes received academic recognition
- The women's cross country team won its second consecutive Big 12 Championship
- Texas Tech track sent 20 student-athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon and earned 17 All-America honors at the meet
- Rosalyn Kim, women's golfer, was named National Golf Coaches Association East All-Region Team and she advanced to the NCAA Women's Golf Championship
- Men's Tennis players Raony Carvalho, Gonzalo Escobar and Rafael Garcia earned 2010 All-Big 12 tennis team for singles. Tech was the only school to have three players so honored
- Baseball player Barrett Barnes earned Big 12 Freshman of the Year honor
- Chris Ward became the first Tech player to win the Big 12 individual title for men's golf
- The Texas Tech Football team has made 10 consecutive bowl appearances and won the Valero Alamo Bowl in January 2010.
Red Raider student-athletes were also involved in more than 1400 hours of community services projects the previous school year. These projects include assisting the Lubbock YMCA, Big Brother/Big Sister Organization, Susan G Komen Foundation, South Plains Food Bank, Casa de South Plains, Salvation Army, American Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity, Covenant Women's and Children Hospital, Carillon Retirement Community, First Church of Nazarene, Special Olympics Texas, and Red Raider Academy. On campus, student-athletes helped with the IDEAL Program, Student Housing department, Rawls College of Business, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Center for Prevention and Resiliency, and F.I.T Tech.
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