Yes, it’s football season and that’s where fans are often focused during the fall, just as many are focused on men’s and women’s basketball during the winter.
Yet ODU has 16 other sports programs, called “Olympic sports,” and each has coaches and players who work just as hard and represent their University with as much zeal as the Monarchs do on the gridiron or hardwood.
Athletes and coaches of Olympic sports teams may not receive the adulation in the media that football and basketball players do, but I often see women’s soccer, volleyball, baseball players and others lifting weights, running and practicing their sports throughout the school year.