West Virginia University
(WVU) senior varsity
basketball player Averee
Fields majors in social work
with a minor in psychology.
Her academic work is
impressive — in addition to
being named to the Big 12 All-
Academic First Team for the
past three years, she recently
earned Academic All-America Second Team honors. As a senior, Fields was named All-Big
12 Honorable Mention. She has dedicated hundreds of hours
of service work to the Morgantown community, via Stepping
Stones, an organization that helps individuals with special needs,
and volunteered at local hospitals and the WVU Child Learning
Center.
Averee Fields
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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