Athletic Department

Athletic Department ATHLETICS

Building A Championship Mindset For Life

8:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Athletic Department

Middlebury Athletics is excited to host NFL Super Bowl Champion and CBS Analyst Aaron Taylor, in conjunction with RADical Hope, for a mental health speaking engagement.

Memorial Field House Pepin Gymnasium

Closed to the Public

Author Talk with Lisa Uperesa: Gridiron Capital: How American Football became a Samoan Game

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Athletic Department, American Studies, Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship, and Anthropology

Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Samoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron Capital Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural and social dynamics that have made football so significant to Samoan communities.

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public