Campus News, General News Law professor Christo Lassiter volunteered to coach a College of Law softball team when the teammates asked to name the team after him.
Players attest the team has become a mechanism for overcoming doubt and intimidation.
Outsiders might have a hard time seeing the connection between the softball diamond and law school. But it's there, as convincing as the Constitution, for Suzanne Robinson and her teammates. That is law school. Robinson is on a team of 15 female first-year students at the UC College of Law playing intramural softball on campus this spring. Circumstances have propelled this beyond simple recreation it has become a tool for scaling the wall of doubt and intimidation that stands between so many students and their dreams of becoming a lawyer.