Arkansas Razorbacks football team learns about the risk of gambling to their sport

A new semester of education sessions aimed at alerting NCAA student-athletes and staff to the potential hidden risks of gambling is underway, with a keynote session to the Arkansas Razorbacks football team being an opening week highlight of EPIC Global Solutions’ 2024/25 program.
The University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville played host to EPIC’s senior program facilitator Patrick Chester, whose back story of serious gambling-related harm was the basis for a discussion intended to provoke thought among the 120-strong roster of players and staff, ensuring that everyone in attendance was aware of the human cost of gambling addiction and how it can relate to other forms of gambling-related harm, such as integrity breaches.
The presentation was delivered as part of an ongoing program backed by the NCAA and Entain Foundation US, with the intention of ensuring that student-athletes experience a safer relationship with all forms of wagering and are aware of the restrictions and bylaws that apply to them. So far, more than 55,000 student-athletes and staff have received the programme’s message in-person during its first two-and-a-half years.
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