Top 10 Learning Moments
- [Due to the pandemic], we are learning how to be much more creative in our ways of being athletic and getting into sports. — Cara Ocobock
- We now have to get out of our comfort zone, and we have to stop talking about doing [sports] the way we used to do them. — Angie Torain
- Professional sports has to become more of an accountable business with respect to its place in the community. — Philip Bess
- When the world finishes rebooting, we’ll all be in a better place and hopefully be even more connected. — Raul Fernandez
- How do you make change happen? You make it one day at a time, every day at a time. — Allison Barber
- The thing about being in college is that that’s your time… to think about how you are going to make a change in society. — Stan Wilcox
- The biggest concern was actually on the injury side , which almost trumped the part about Covid. — Sitapha Savané
- Covid has exposed the fragility of the societies that we have built and how some areas of our society are being really affected by Covid. — Daniel Medina
- I think a lot of the lessons learned during this period of time will be of use once we get past the toughest moments of this crisis. — Sitapha Savané
- I think teamwork is the key to advancing societies and the world. — Carol Callan
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Featured Speakers
Philip Bess, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
Cara Ocobock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
Allison Barber, Ph.D., President and COO of the Indiana Fever, Indiana’s WNBA franchise
Raul Fernandez, Owner & Vice Chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Chris Stevens, Co-Founding Director, Inspired Leadership Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, and Professor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame
Carol Callan, USA Women’s Basketball National Team director
Sitapha Savané, sports commentator, Moisture+
Dr. Daniel Medina, Chief Medical Officer, Monumental Basketball
Stan Wilcox ’81, Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, NCAA
“Covid has exposed the fragility of the societies that we have built and how some areas of our society are being really affected by Covid.”
— Daniel Medina
