REGIS UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH CAREER ATHLETES; Regis University set to provide career connections to current and alumni athletes

Kansas City, Kan.: Regis University athletics recently agreed to a multi-year partnership with Career Athletes.  The partnership between Career Athletes and the Regis University athletic department provides a national representation of unique networking opportunities and career development resources for current and alumni athletes. Regis University Director of Athletics, Ann Martin stated,” The partnership with Career Athletes, Regis University Career Services and the athletic department supports our mission to provide student-athletes with every opportunity to have meaningful professional careers after they graduate.  

Building a community with our current student-athletes and alumni is an important part of that opportunity and the Career Athletes website is a great platform for building our network.  This program has reinforced for us the value mentors and networking play in professional success and we are excited to give the Regis student-athletes a head start in those areas.” 

This Online Career Community Network will provide benefits such as mentoring, professional networking, virtual career coaching and 12 years of best practices from the leading and largest career services organization assisting athletes, athletic departments and campus career centers.  The Regis University “Community Network” consists of current and alumni athletes from the institution as well as local, regional and national employers all managed and monitored by Career Athletes at its home office in the Kansas City area.  Individual members of Career Athletes are also able to network with over 65,000 former college athletes from across the nation while having access to over 5,000 career opportunities exclusive to www.careerathletes.com. 

DJ Washington at Career Athletes explains that beyond an athletic department’s initiative assisting with career opportunities and educational resources; it also helps when there is already a foundation on campus toward academic success.  “We are pleased to assist Regis Athletics with its commitment toward career development of athletes, but it is also just as important to recognize the program’s culture of achievement in community service, academic performance and athletic success,” shared Washington, Vice President, Career Education and Training.  Regis is no stranger to success as indicated by additional academic and athletic achievements:

• Fifteen student-athletes honored as Academic All-Americans
• An impressive eighty Regis student-athletes have attained a GPA of 4.0 since 2007
• More than 170 student-athletes have earned a GPA of 3.75-3.99 since 2007
• Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) All-Academic Honors since 2007 include; 26 First Team, 35 Second Team and 63 Honor Roll members
• Twenty five Regis student-athletes have been named athletic All-Americans
• Regis University has won a total of 30 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Championships in school history and has made an impressive 40 NCAA Appearances

Regis student-athletes have also been committed to a variety of community outreach programs throughout the years. These include Make-a-Wish Foundation Contributions, totaling over $4,000 in the past two years. Also, a minimum of sixteen hours of community service is attained by each student-athlete per year.

Regis athletics is prepared for another successful year both in the classroom and on the field!