WWE Signs 15 New NIL Athletes
WWE revealed its 3rd NIL class today by providing the following news release:
WWE ® ADDS 15 ATHLETES TO AWARD-WINNING NIL PROGRAM
“Next In Line” Enters Second Year with Growing Roster of All Americans
STAMFORD, Conn., January 26, 2023– WWE (NYSE: WWE) today exposed the 3rd class of 15 college professional athletes who will sign up with the business’s acclaimed NIL (Name, Image & & Likeness) program– “Next In Line
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The class is highlighted by two-time NCAA All American wrestler Greg Kerkvliet from Penn State University, four-time NCAA National Champion thrower Turner Washington from Arizona State University and NCAA Champion hurdler Alia Armstrong from Louisiana State University.
The 3rd “Next In Line” class consists of professional athletes from 14 universities, 9 NCAA conferences and 7 various sports. The program invites its very first professional athletes from females’s wrestling, softball, soccer, and tennis.
Call
School
Sport
Height/Weight
Home town
Abby Jacobs
South Alabama
Soccer
5′ 7″
Gulf Breeze, Fla.
. Alexandra Jaksec
Mary Washington
Tennis
5′ 4″
Pittsburgh, Pa.
. Alia Armstrong
LSU
Track & & Field 5’4″
Baton
Rouge, La.
. Cameron Jones
Cincinnati
Football
6′ 8″, 320 pounds.
Hindman, Ky.
. Dee Beckwith
Kentucky
Football
6′ 5″, 235 pounds.
Florence, Ala.
. Greg Kerkvliet
Penn State
Wrestling
6′ 3″, 250 pounds.
Inver Grove Heights, Minn.
. Isaiah Iton
Rutgers
Football
6′ 2″, 290 pounds.
Houston, Texas
Jaiden Fields
Georgia
Softball
5′ 9″
Kennesaw, Ga.
. Landon Jackson
Arkansas
Football
6′ 7″, 275 pounds.
Texarkana, Texas
Mady Aulbach
Youngstown State
Basketball
5′ 3″
Slippery Rock, Pa.
. Nick Dawkins
Penn State
Football
6′ 4″, 315 pounds.
Allentown, Pa.
. Otoniel Badjana
Pittsburgh
Track & & Field 5’11
“, 245 pounds.
Lisbon, Portugal
Peyton Prussin
Life University
Wrestling
5′ 4″
Las Vegas, Nev.
. Tori Ortiz
Oklahoma State
Track & & Field 5’9″
Batavia, Ill. Turner
Washington Arizona State Track
& Field 6’5″, 290 pounds. Tucson, Ariz.
. The”Next In Line”program has actually signed
46 college professional athletes
because its beginning in December 2021 consisting of the program’s very first signee, Olympic Gold medalist Gable Steveson. The program serves to hire and establish prospective future Superstars and additional boosts WWE’s skill advancement procedure through collective collaborations with college professional athletes from varied athletic backgrounds. WWE has actually signed professional athletes from 13 various sports consisting of 35 members of Power-Five conferences who have actually jointly made 40 NCAA All American Honors and 12 NCAA National Championships. All professional athlete collaborations include access to the cutting edge WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., in addition to resources throughout the company consisting of brand name structure, media training, interactions, live occasionpromo, imaginative writing and neighborhood relations. Upon conclusion of the NIL program, choose professional athletes might make a special chance to be provided a WWE agreement. The program’s professional athletes boast remarkable social networks followings with more than 10 million integrated fans on TikTok and almost 3 million integrated fans on Instagram. WWE presently has among the biggest fanbases on TikTok with 20.9 million fans and more than
27 million Instagram fans. Find out more about the “Next In Line”program at wwerecruit.com. About WWE WWE, an openly traded business(NYSE: WWE ), is an incorporated media company and acknowledged leader in international home entertainment. The Company includes a portfolio of organizations that develop and provide initial material 52 weeks a year to an international audience. WWE is devoted to family-friendly home entertainment on its tv shows, premium live occasions,
digital media and releasing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programs can be seen in more than 1 billion houses worldwide in 25 languages through first-rate circulation partners consisting of NBCUniversal, FOX, BT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The acclaimed WWE Network consists of all premium live occasions, set up programs and a huge video-on-demand library and is presently offered in more than 180 nations. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the unique house to WWE Network. The post WWE Signs 15 New NIL Athletes appeared initially on eWrestlingNews.com.