Program objectives include:

  1. provide opportunity for student-athletes to develop and exercise leadership skills with teammates and the student-body;
  2. train student-athletes as facilitators for the STEP-UP program and peer education discussions;
  3. promote intramurals as a viable leisure and social option for first-year students within their own intramural league;
  4. integrate alcohol education with campus-wide activities through peer-education efforts; and
  5. to encourage and support student-athletes as highly visible leaders on campus.

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