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Arizona State University junior Alexis Cooper is a pitcher for the Sun Devils softball team. She finished her sophomore season with a 3.65 earned run average in 15.1 innings pitched. As a nursing major, she was named a Sun Devil Scholar-Athlete five times and to the Dean’s List for five semesters. Cooper volunteers at youth softball clinics. She volunteered at the Methodist Hospital in Sacramento, California, during the summer of 2014.

School: Arizona State University
Year: 2015
Major: Nursing

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