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Message: [QUOTE="Moose, post: 3274720, member: 1785"] It's really hard to figure out what the team's major's are, but the Lowe's senior class award (in combination with uconnhuskies.com) yielded the following: Molly Bent - Exploratory major Kyla Irwin - Speech language and hearing science Kia Nurse [B]- [/B]Indiviualized Sport in Media major Gabrielle Williams - Urban and community studies Breanna Stewart - Individualized; sport in society Moriah Jefferson - Individualized; youth in sport Kiah Stokes - Individualized major Stephanie Dolson - Communication Sciences Maya Moore - Individualized major Renee Montgomery - Communications Sue Bird - Communications As someone super keen on the concept of student-athlete, I had read some exciting stories about Bent's interest in math, Lawlor's studies in engineering, and Pulido's pre-med aspirations, but in all of those cases those student-athlete's later changed course - which, of course, is their perogative. Maya Moore's academic prowess was lauded, so I was a bit disappointed when I read this: [I]STUDENT-ATHLETE: Moore has one class this semester, news writing for radio and television, and it meets twice a week. The Academic All-American has an individualized major titled "sports, media and promotion." She's working with a partner on a project about UConn's new football coach Paul Pasqualoni.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/ncw/id/6224504[/URL] But obviously, much credit to Maya too, for completing her course work on an accelerated schedule to be able to be talking only one course in her last semester. Graduating in all these majors should be celebrated: it is not a 'free-ride', but a lot of hard work. However, it is very rare that a DI women's basketball player, at any university, graduates in an STEM field. Even Elizabeth Williams, famous for wanting to be a doctor, graduated in psychology, as did Pulido (and was reported to have missed road games to do it), and Nneka Ogwumike. Of recent UConn graduates, personally, I am most impressed with Heather Buck having completed the Nursing program. I am hoping that Belibi might be able to buck the trend. Or Nelson-Ododa. [/QUOTE]

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