Allyson Felix, the most embellished female track and field athlete in Olympic history, provides at the Youngstown State University Thomas Colloquium 7 p.m. September 14 at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Admission to the lecture is totally free, however tickets are required. Tickets are available, beginning August 7, at the Stambaugh Auditorium ticket office or online.
Felix initially participated in the Olympic Games at 18 years old and has because generated 13 worldwide titles, 10 US Championships, 11 Olympic Medals, a World Record and delivered the fastest 400-meter relay split in World Championship history. She holds the most United States Track & Field Olympic medals of all time. Her accomplishments strengthen her as one of the best female athletes ever and has actually garnered attention from media companies such as Vogue, Glamour, Essence, Self, O Publication, Sports Illustrated and Elle.
She functions as an ambassador for Right to Play and Play Functions, as well as being a member of The President’s Council on Physical fitness, Sport and Nutrition.
Felix defended new maternity policies for female athletes and continues to battle versus discrimination in the athletic world. Just recently, she turned her attention to helping the National Football League’s Nnamdi Asomugha offer Los Angeles location teens with tools to prepare themselves for college through their Asomugha College Tour for Scholars’ College Summit.
YSU, through an endowment developed by Paul J. and Marguerite K. Thomas, started the annual “Colloquium on Capitalism” in 1981. Showing the Thomases’ involvement in the business community and their interest in the community-at-large, the Colloquium promotes ideas that are conducive to the development of the free enterprise system. It promotes capitalism as a practical force in the U.S. economy. The aims of the Colloquium are: to supply a series of exceptional lectures or workshops by recognized leaders in organization, economics, and financing for both the general public and the scholastic neighborhood, to supply a library for usage by organization individuals, trainees, and people of the neighborhood, to work as a cleaning house for the exchange of ideas to promote common objectives of industry, company, and financing in the capitalism system, and to promote the thinking and long-range planning of company, federal government, and people on methods to foster the growth of free enterprise.
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