Duke Launches Integrative Performance Excellence Group

....“Athletics performance and athletic success, just like academic success, is based on the whole person,” Zarzour said. “The basis for forming the Integrative Performance Excellence Group was to be able to take all the excellent resources available to our student-athletes here at Duke and put them together, under one umbrella. We want to send one message and maximize each of those resources.”.....

.....“Dr. Zeplin, who has experience at a Power Five university with elite student-athletes, gives us a specificity that will help our student-athletes,” Zarzour said. “Duke has great resources. Durham has great resources. Our campus has great resources. But the specificity of having someone who understands what student-athletes go through daily – what the stresses, anxieties and demands are – can aid our student-athletes considerably.”.....