Northwestern University Athletics
Positively Dr. Gragg - October 2023
10/5/2023 1:31:00 PM | General
Welcome to another incredible academic and athletic year at Northwestern University!
Wildcats,
Welcome to another incredible academic and athletic year at Northwestern University! We have a great deal to be proud of and to look forward to, though we also know that there is hard work ahead.
As I have shared with you previously, this summer was challenging for anyone associated with our institution. What I am proud of—and you should be as well—is how Northwestern has responded to the challenges. I am also proud of how our coaches, student-athletes and others in our community have supported each other. As we turn toward the future of Northwestern Athletics, I encourage you all to continue to care for your fellow Wildcats, and for yourselves.
Last fall, we released R.I.S.E. Northwestern: A Strategic Plan for Excellence, a road map for our collective future and successes. Our values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence), mission and vision as determined by our community have not changed and will not change. We remain steadfast in our commitment to them and to those in our charge. We have tremendous student-athletes in Evanston who chose to proudly wear purple and earn a degree from one of the globe's leading universities. There are amazing achievements each and every day happening on our campus and on our fields of training and competition, and we can never lose sight of that.
We are fortunate to welcome several new members to the Wildcat Family, including Head Baseball Coach Ben Greenspan, Director of Swimming & Diving Rachel Stratton-Mills, and Interim Head Football Coach David Braun. They join an impressive group of leaders in our department. All of our elite coaches and athletics personnel share our values, and they have already been hard at work to make our programs better and to show the world the power of the Wildcats.
Welcome back! I am looking forward to a great year ahead for Northwestern Athletics!
Positively,
Dr. Gragg
Vice-President of Athletics & Recreation
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
