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Parker Goyer And Coach For College Program To Be Featured By ESPN
1/19/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis, Athletics
DURHAM, N.C.?Just over a month after winning the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, former Duke University women's tennis player Parker Goyer and her Coach for College program will be profiled by ESPN. The show, NCAA on Campus, will be aired by both ESPN Classic and ESPNU.
The January edition of NCAA on Campus will debut on ESPN Classic on Jan. 21 at 12:30 p.m. It will be rebroadcast on ESPNU on Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. The entire show is devoted to Goyer and her Coach for College program she created as a senior at Duke. The 30-minute program usually covers four or five different features, but Goyer's accomplishments and the uniqueness of what she has accomplished will fill the entire 30-minute slot.
The show includes footage from Vietnam as well interviews with Duke University president Richard H. Brodhead and former University of North Carolina James Moeser as well as Duke men's lacrosse player Ned Crotty and various other student-athletes from both schools who were fortunate to take part in the experience of Coach for College.
As a senior, Goyer started the process of creating a program called “Coach for College”, in which college athletes go to rural communities in developing countries to work with middle-school aged children. She worked closely with the Duke administration and many other people from around the country to gain funding for the initiative. The program's goal is to utilize sports to help middle school students in rural communities develop academic and life skills needed to successfully attend a college or university.
In March of 2008, Goyer and six other Duke student-athletes spent spring break in Vietnam to conduct advance planning for Coach for College. The trip was organized and designed by Goyer to ensure the program's initial success that summer.
Goyer hopes to build on this program to include more universities and other countries. She developed the idea after trips in the summer of 2007 to Belize and Vietnam. This past January, she brought the idea of Coach for College to Duke administrators and received strong encouragement -- and $130,000 in monetary support -- from the provost's office, the office of the dean of undergraduate education and the athletics department. Various offices at North Carolina contributed another $68,000 and the NCAA contributed $10,000 more.
She recently received a $175,000 grant from the U.S. State Department and renewed support from the two universities to continue the program in Vietnam in 2009. Coach for College is now administered by the Duke Center for Civic Engagement.
Goyer said she plans to study international comparative education at Oxford and find ways to expand the Coach for College program to other countries around the world. The scholarship begins in October of 2009. She majored in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience and currently is enrolled in the doctoral program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She will take a leave of absence to pursue a master's degree at Oxford.
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