Barb Obert

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[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

@denverwomenstri Huge respect for such a top notch triathlon team @denverwomenstri
#SkoPios

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Ivy League programs benefit from the Ivy “Brand Name” and Alumni network that ensure career and life connections that many other schools don’t have. That’s a recruiting tool for talent and sets them up for the later payoff. If the “Ivy Way” is so perfect, why doesn’t an Ivy win every year? Princeton just played better than ND and won the Natty. Period.
Meanwhile, there are competitive lax teams in mid-sized schools who allow NIL, but whose athletes don’t have that brand profile to receive NIL money. Those great, deserving student athletes with a quality non-Ivy education and work ethic, but without connections, struggle to even get interviews. Get off your “Ivy players have nothing but teamwork” horse.

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@ChuckieX2 @22classy @chadrpalumbo A’s in every class except one A- during a 4-year academic career.

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@HappyTwinDad @CoachQ88 No one is disputing that the level of playing from teams throughout the entire NCAA tournament was incredible. Always is.

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

@soccerhaus @JBrown80416330 @CoachQ88 That is the excuse that was used to sell the new rules right after a Yale player was hospitalized with a life-threatening hit (which wasn’t called, by the way). More rules don’t fix the issue of inconsistent application of existing rules.

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

Live by the sword, die by the sword. A flurry of green card & other new rules were pushed by UNC after missing a Final Four against a tough defensive team. The ref’s call they just experienced was the other end of that sword. NU has won other games on calls — a slew of free position shots (have seen NU beat an opponent by receiving 8 fps, more than actual goals they made). Colorado’s NCAA Round 2 opponent was charged with 13 penalties (vs 3 for the home Buffs) including a yellow card for raising questions about it, then folks questioned the call that ended the Buffs run in Round 3. The spider web of rules make reffing more interpretive & less consistent; and there’s no denying it changes momentum and even outcomes. Coaches made the rules. It’s up to coaches —a majority of teams, not just a powerful few—to fix them.

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

On this #MemorialDay, remember those whose have made the ultimate sacrifice so that others may live in the light.

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

Honored to replace worn flags before #MemorialDay as a volunteer for the Veterans’ Stone Project, gratefully servicing nearly 500 gravesites. Also joined the evening flag ceremony @FortMcHenryNPS . So proud. #WeRemember

[Marsha Lycan @mlycan12]

The NCAA could be passing the 5YR eligibility model this week. The ONLY way to avoid creating utter chaos in terms of players being cut and de-committed every year is to make all 5th years exempt from roster limits. Roster limits and 5 years of playing cannot live harmoniously together. Many athletes will not decide if they are taking a 5th year until very late in the process and when they do, it will be at the expense of someone else. There will be a lot of HS Seniors getting de-committed every year because of the system this model will create. And I feel like no one is talking about this enough. #5YearEligibility #DoTheRightThing

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

@NCAALAX @espn The difference being that women get penalized all the time on the draw for simply going for the ball effectively. Green cards & yellow cards—refs determine the outcome.

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@DU_WLAX Love our Seniors❤️

[Denver Women’s Lacrosse @DU_WLAX]

Q3 | 9:08 | DU 6 - 8 CU

KYRA OBERT, YES MA'AM!

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

Wish I had two minutes with my mother again to make sure she knew how truly epic she was. The things she may not have known that I admired, respected, learned from her and loved about her. #TellYourMom any day of the year. Every day is #MothersDay❤️

[Denver Women’s Lacrosse @DU_WLAX]

With a program first win over Florida, the Pioneers advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament ‼️

See you Sunday!

#GoPios

[Barb Obert @BarbObert]

@EYakoby No, true leadership would be to have them arrested. On-going assaults like this will not stop until there are consequences.

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My daughter is a D1 lacrosse player at University of Denver. Four hours of training daily, plus team travel, and she is straight A’s, getting two degrees simultaneously, a senior teaching assistant instructing 60 students and just lead 25 industry professionals’ participation in one of DU Daniels Business School’s signature programs. Not all student athletes are as you described, but most companies won’t even give them job interviews because of the stereotypes described.

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@DawnsMission @Sassafrass_84 Every single milk brand, Including the so-called organic ones in our grocery stores are now all “Ultra-pasteurized”. None of the healthy features left. Half-gallons have expiration dates months out.

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@IWLCA Yeah Lexi Gwaku! #PiosDefense

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@pegasus9060 @RGIII Do the math, and read before you respond. $7.59 - $3=$4.59.