SAN ANTONIO — In partnership with Brenda Tracy, sexual assault survivor, public speaker and founder of the national campaign and nonprofit, #SetTheExpectation, UTSA will hold #SetTheExpectation Awareness Week for the second straight year.
UTSA will hold several events this week to help raise awareness:
• All UTSA student-athletes will sign the #SetTheExpectation pledge to say that sexual assault and physical violence are never acceptable.
• The UTSA Athletics Department will ask the UTSA campus community and fans to join them by signing the community pledge online at settheexpectation.org/pledges.
• UTSA Athletics is partnering with The PEACE Center's "Take Back the Night" virtual event at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10. The event promotes sexual assault prevention and bystander intervention and includes a musical performance by Leroy Watson, a senior on the football team.
• Brenda Tracy will be a special guest on The Jeff Traylor Radio Show, which airs live at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, on Ticket 760 AM and UTSA Athletics Facebook.
• #SetTheExpectation Awareness Week will culminate with UTSA's annual Homecoming game against UTEP at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Alamodome.
Behind the leadership of UTSA President Dr. Taylor Eighmy and Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Lisa Campos, UTSA announced in September 2019 a groundbreaking partnership to strengthen its zero-tolerance policy for its campus community. UTSA was the first university in the nation to implement the Tracy Rule, the most comprehensive Serious Misconduct rule in the NCAA.
The UTSA Tracy Rule, which attaches student-athlete eligibility to behavior, ensures that:
A current or prospective student-athlete who has been convicted of, pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony or misdemeanor involving Serious Misconduct, has been found a delinquent in relationship to a juvenile code equivalent, or has been disciplined by the university or athletic department at any time during enrollment at any collegiate institution (excluding temporary disciplinary action during an investigation) due to Serious Misconduct shall not be eligible for athletically related financial aid, practice or competition at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Brenda Tracy has visited UTSA multiple times to discuss sexual assault and misconduct prevention. While in San Antonio, Tracy spoke with UTSA Athletics staff and student-athletes, UTSA Greek Life members, students, faculty and staff.
An activist, advocate, citizen lobbyist, mother and nurse, Tracy has spoken to more than 80 football teams and numerous other groups, encouraging her audiences to speak out against sexual assault and physical violence and to use their platform to influence those around them to do the same.
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