Stander Sympo

I attended two stander symposium presentations, both by freshman in a major involving sports in some way. Nick Bosch, an exercise science major, and Jose Santana, a sports management major, both gave good presentations about something in the sports world. Nick Bosch's topic, In Their Prime: NFL running backs that disappeared in their golden years, was a study of running backs who either got hurt and had to leave the sport early, or running backs who in their prime decided to retire. The big question was how the players who were injured and forced to quit felt about the players who decided to leave the NFL early on their own will? By using the library, and internet resources, he found the injured players thought new doors opened for them after their football careers and were happy being out of the game, and therefore understood how and why someone could retire early. Jose Santana researched, Pride of a Nation: the overlooked history of Puerto Rican boxing. The research question Jose had was why is Puerto Rican boxing, which is huge in Puerto Rico, not a big deal in America? After researching in the library and online, he concluded that Americans would much rather follow American boxers than to try and go out of their way to see Puerto Rican boxers.