Diversityin sports
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The document discusses a project focused on raising awareness about diversity in sports, utilizing interviews from Syracuse University athletes and a blog to highlight individual stories. It aims to address the challenges athletes face regarding stereotypes, media perceptions, and diversity issues within sports. The initiative includes social media engagement through a dedicated Twitter account and aims to foster discussion and awareness of diversity topics.
Diversityin sports
- 1. Diversity in Sports #CuseDiversity
- 2. Overview • We decided to focus on diversity within sports, specifically using interview subjects from Syracuse University athletics • We made a blog to highlight some of our individual stories and raise awareness about diversity issues in sports • We also incorporated social media with a blog and hashtag#CuseDiversity
- 3. Goals • Raise awareness about diversity in sports • Acknowledge issues athletes face on their sports teams and how they are perceived through the media • Look into stereotypes of college athletes and why they have formed • Put an end to diversity issues in sports
- 4. Issues • Finding participants- privacy issues with collegiate athletes/public figures • Making sure we covered a wide range of issues & types of athletes (gender, racial, class) • Bringing about awareness of our blog & Twitter pages (getting followers)
- 5. #37 Drew Jenkins Syracuse Lacrosse Midfielder What makes him diverse? • African American • Middle class from New Jersey • Sport has a history of primarily white, upper class players “ Sometimes on my club team kids would make ” comments like ‘oh, you must be fast’ and things like that. I knew they were just ignorant.
- 7. #75 Zack Chibane Syracuse Football Offensive Guard What makes him diverse? • Father is originally from Algeria • Extended family (father’s side) lives in Algeria • Father is Muslim • Zack shares the same faith “ ” If you look at me you think I’m just a regular, white, Christian kid who’s Irish or German or something.
- 8. @Bane_75
- 9. International athletes at Syracuse Syracuse volleyball • Where are they from? - Canada, Uzbekistan, Poland, Lithuania and Russia - Plus a history of Chinese athletes Syracuse soccer • Where are they from? - Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland
- 10. Why is this?
- 11. Contemporary Media Examples #NinjaPlease racial hashtag by Warrior Lacrosse
- 12. VCU women’s volleyball coach believes he was fired because he is ‘gay’
- 13. Colorado football coach believes race could play a part in the reason for his dismissal
- 14. How We Can Help • Raise awareness • Get others talking • Form an outlet for athletes to discuss issues • What we did: • Diversity in sports blog • Diversity in SU athletics Twitter account/hashtag
- 15. Diversity in Sports Blog • http://diversityinsports.wordpress.com/ – Profiles on athletes (specifically at SU) – Post about contemporary media examples – Allows users to comment on our posts/engage with us – Linked to our Twitter
- 16. Cuse Diversity Twitter Page • https://twitter.com/CuseDiversity – Updates our followers on blog/links to blog – Allows followers to discuss our topics via the hashtag #cusediversity – Allows Cuse Diversity to interact with other diversity in sports organizations
- 17. Any Questions??