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What all are we mixing into today’s Brew?

📚 Hitting the Books
🏒 Wichita On Ice
🌾 ​And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Hitting the Books. The Shockers saw lots of success off the tennis court this offseason as 13 men’s and women’s student-athletes were named as ITA Scholar Athletes. To be selected as a member of this exclusive list, each Shocker had to maintain above a 3.50 GPA.

Women’s Tennis

🎾 Jessica Anzo
🎾 Theodora Chantava
🎾 Marlene Forster
🎾 Harriet Hamilton
🎾 LingWei Kong
🎾 Kristina Kudryavtseva
🎾 Katsumi Kurahashi

Men’s Tennis

🎾 Luke Bracks
🎾 Zach Grueber
🎾 Misha Kvantaliani
🎾 Kristof Minarik
🎾 Orel Ovil
🎾 Duccio Petreni

Additionally, both men’s and women’s programs were named as ITA All-Academic Teams. Each program achieved above a cumulative 3.20 GPA to earn this honor.

🔼 Wichita On Ice. Professional hockey is making its return to the Sunflower State with a friendly exhibition this coming fall.

The NHL returns to Wichita on Saturday, September 23 at INTRUST Bank Arena. Get up to $5 off each ticket by using the coupon code "SHOCKERS" at checkout, and Wichita State Athletics will get a portion of each ticket sale. Purchase your tickets now and support your favorite university today!

🔼 Save the Date! The inaugural Black and Yellow Gala will be later this summer on August 19th at the Charles Koch Arena. The event will go directly toward the support of all Shocker student-athletes and teams. Join us for this fantastic fundraising event by purchasing tickets down below.

🤔 SHOCKER TRIVIA

Back to the Big Leagues. Brock Rodden had an incredible season with the Shockers, but it almost never happened. He was drafted during the 2022 MLB Draft, but declined the contract to improve himself and come back stronger.

Our question today — do you remember in what round Brock was drafted in last year’s MLB Draft?

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🌾 ONE BIG THING

Our beloved Brock Rodden is headed off to Seattle, Washington.

His bet on himself paid off, because in this week’s MLB Draft, Rodden was selected No. 160 overall by the Mariners to join their organization as “one of the better four-year college players.” We simply could not agree more.

🎥 Watch the selection go down in real-time.

🫶 A sweet welcome by his new team into the big leagues.

📬 STICK WITH US

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: The 10th round!

Last season, Rodden was selected as the 304th overall pick and was just one of three players selected in the top 10 rounds to not sign on the dotted line. The bet paid off as his pay went from $151,300 if he had signed last year, to $374,400 this year after being selected in the fifth round. Cha-ching!

Have a great Wednesday, y’all.