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Ifeatu Okafor advanced to the West Preliminaries of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships as a member of the Texas Tech University team. She was the 2011 Big 12 Shot Put Champion, 2011 Outdoor All-American and 2011 Indoor All-American. She was named to the Big12 Commissioners Honor Roll and the Academic All-Big 12 First Team. Okafor is also president of the Texas Tech Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

School: Texas Tech University
Year: 2013
Major: Physician Assistant Studies

A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics
American sport has always served as a platform for resistance and has been measured and critiqued by how it responds in critical moments of racial and social crises.
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A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics