Engineering Prof. @UArizona, Faculty Athletics Representative @Big12Conference, Founder & Chief Scientist @scienceofsport_ Author of The Five-Tool Team
University of Arizona
Joined November 2013
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🎉🏅 Shoutout to our Student-Athletes of the Month! Your commitment and effort in your academics and sport have set the bar high. Congratulations—you've earned it!
Regan Shockey
Tony Pluta
Mason Hopper
Olivia Dillon
#CATSAcademics
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🏆📚 Congratulations to our Student-Athlete Academic Champions! These students have maintained a combined 3.0 GPA or above throughout the fall, spring, and summer terms, demonstrating an outstanding commitment to academic success. Your commitment doesn’t go unnoticed! 🎉👏
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Want employees to act like owners? Give them the information owners have. @BillFotsch & @sciencebaseball, author of The Five-Tool Team: Bringing Out the Best in People to Make Better Decisions, explain why empowerment alone isn’t enough inc.com/bill-fotsch/economic… via @Inc Magazine
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Enjoyed listening to Mike Candrea interview our @AZATHLETICS FAR Dr. Ricardo Valerdi today about his terrific new book “The Five Tool Team.” Congrats Ricardo and best of luck on the book tour! 🐻⬇️
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A BEIRA DO INFARTO: Pablo Giralt, da Telefe, enlouquecendo narrando o gol da virada da Argentina em cima da Inglaterra!
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The Cats have claimed the Commissioner's Cup! 🏆
The University of Arizona has captured the 2025-26 Allstate Commissioner's Cup, an award that recognizes excellence both on and off the field!
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Hats off to our student-athletes! 📚
Balancing sport and academics at the highest level—Spring 2026 was one for the books. #BearDown #CATSAcademics
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Another historic semester in the books!📚
Our student athletes earned a record-setting cumulative GPA of a 3.413 for the spring semester!
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Congrats, @Anderson_Jimbo!
Named West Region Coach of the Year by @GolfCoachesAssn
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Wow! It’s incredible how much control they have! Messi’s best free-kick ever, with a gorgeous visualization of the Magnus effect!
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"I didn't come back for a 10-win season. I came back for it all." Arizona's Noah Fifita leads all college quarterbacks in TD passes. His story of sticking around in Tucson is an ode to permeance and building roots in a transient era. espn.com/college-football/st…
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At this point in time, there is no better job for Tommy Lloyd than @ArizonaMBB. If you don’t want to call the Wildcats a “blueblood,” that’s fine. But he’s not leaving for North Carolina or the other “blue bloods” that could open next year. Just spend a basketball weekend in Tucson to understand that.
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🐻 DOWN!!!! FINAL 4️⃣ BOUND @ArizonaMBB 🫡
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No Irish support staff were harmed in the running of these 40s 🫣☘️
#GoIrish☘️
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Congratulations to our February Student Athletes of the Month! Your commitment, resilience, and passion don’t go unnoticed — keep raising the bar! 💙🐻⬇️
Tayler Biehl @ArizonaSoftball
Tony Xiong @ArizonaMGolf
Maria Cabanillas @ArizonaWGolf
Evan Nelson @ArizonaMBB
