A day before the start of classes for Arizona State University's fall semester, over 600 Sun Devil student-athletes and the entire Sun Devil Athletics staff hopped on a Zoom call to discuss the year ahead, the challenges everyone would face, and to lay out the goals and expectations for the upcoming seasons.
But the discussion was not simply limited to results on the field. In fact, very little of the hour-plus talk had anything to do with athletic competition at all.
Famed American sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards served as a guest speaker for the event, encouraging those on the call to use their platform as athletes to engage themselves in their communities and abroad and use their voices to encourage change, reform and to generally create a better world around them.