Northbrook, Sick., February 20, 2025 – Allstate and the Nationwide Affiliation of Collegiate Administrators of Athletics (NACDA) proudly honor 193 student-athletes excelling in teachers, sports activities and neighborhood influence. Nominated by athletics directors, convention workplace employees, and coaches, these student-athletes embody management, service and character and can now be thought-about for choice to the inaugural Allstate NACDA Good Works Crew (Winter).
“These younger ladies and men are greater than opponents – they’re leaders, changemakers and function fashions,” mentioned Holly Rowe, ESPN reporter, play-by-play commentator and Allstate NACDA Ambassador. “Their affect extends past the sport, shaping communities and instructing others the worth of management abilities, like empathy, resilience and integrity, which can final a lifetime.”
Nominees at-a-glance
The 2024-25 Allstate NACDA Good Works Crew (Winter) celebrates 193 nominees – 115 girls and 78 males – spanning 17 sports activities, together with basketball, swimming and diving, gymnastics, ice hockey and lots of others. Nominees embody:
- Sierra Ballard – Louisiana State College, Girls’s Gymnastics
- Paige Bueckers – College of Connecticut, Girls’s Basketball
- Torie Buerger – College of Kentucky, Girls’s Swimming & Diving
- Taylor Heie – Umpqua Group School, Girls’s Indoor Observe & Subject
- KaLynn Irey – Stephens School, Girls’s Basketball
- Sion James – Duke College, Males’s Basketball
- Emmanuela Katou-Kouami – College of the District of Columbia, Girls’s Indoor Observe & Subject
- Colby Kern – Saint John’s College (Minn.), Males’s Swimming & Diving
- Sophia Kyrkostas – SUNY Oswego, Girls’s Hockey
- Ishmael Leggett – College of Pittsburgh, Males’s Basketball
- Jahmai Mashack – College of Tennessee, Males’s Basketball
- Jojo Randby – College of Nebraska-Lincoln, Girls’s Swimming & Diving
- Kiani Saxon – Missouri Western State College, Males’s Basketball
- Jacob Truscott – College of Michigan, Males’s Ice Hockey
The complete checklist of 2024-25 Allstate NACDA Winter Good Works Crew nominees is out there right here.
Nominations could be submitted for as much as one feminine and one male student-athlete from every winter sport at an establishment. Eligible faculties and athletics packages should characterize considered one of 5 intercollegiate athletics divisions: NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA and Junior/Group Schools. Nominees will need to have accomplished at the least one 12 months (two semesters) of school coursework at a two-year or four-year establishment.
The ultimate 20-member workforce
A distinguished Choice Committee will choose 20 nominees – 10 feminine and 10 male student-athletes – to hitch the 2024-25 Allstate NACDA Good Works Crew (Winter). The committee contains Rowe, ESPN analyst and former College of Texas and NFL linebacker Sam Acho, and different esteemed members:
- Elizabeth Brady– Chief advertising, buyer and communications officer, Allstate
- Ross Bjork – Senior vice chairman and Wolfe Basis-Eugene Smith Endowed athletics director, The Ohio State College; NACDA president
- Dan Guerrero – Retired director of athletics, UCLA; NACDA previous president
- Brian Henderson – Athletics director/assistant vice chairman of scholar engagement and inclusion, Patrick & Henry Group School; NACDA Government Committee, NATYCAA 1st vice chairman
- Reagan Rossi – Vp of athletics, School of Idaho; NACDA Government Committee, NAIA-ADA president
- Etienne Thomas – Director of athletics, Winston-Salem State College; NACDA Government Committee, D2 ADA Board of Administrators
- Natalie Winkelfoos – Affiliate vice chairman for athletics development and Delta Lodge director of athletics & bodily schooling, Oberlin School; NACDA Government Committee
A legacy of school sports activities
Introduced in December, the Allstate NACDA Good Works Crew builds on the legacy of the Allstate AFCA Good Works Crew®, which has celebrated faculty soccer gamers’ good work off the sphere since 1992. Now, 60 extra student-athletes throughout all sports activities and all divisions shall be honored yearly – three teams of 20 representing the autumn, winter and spring collegiate athletics seasons.
“Athletes in sports activities that don’t at all times make the headlines reveal the identical dedication to service and management as every other competitor,” mentioned Elizabeth Brady, Allstate’s chief advertising, buyer and communications officer. “The overwhelmingly optimistic response to our first-ever Allstate NACDA Good Works Crew exhibits how a lot this highlight and help issues. We’re honored to share the tales of those inspiring student-athletes.”
About Allstate
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About NACDA
Now in its sixtieth 12 months, NACDA is the skilled and academic Affiliation for greater than 24,000 faculty athletics directors at greater than 2,300 establishments all through the USA, Canada and Mexico. NACDA manages 19 skilled associations and 4 foundations. Along with digital programming, NACDA hosts and/or has a presence at seven main skilled improvement occasions in-person yearly. The NACDA & Associates Conference is the biggest gathering of collegiate athletics directors within the nation. For extra info, go to www.nacda.com.
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