Bri Cassidy

A four-year letterwinner and starter on Nebraska’s softball team (2015-2019) and a 2019 recipient of the Heart & Soul Award, Bri Cassidy joined the Life Skills department in the fall of 2020 as the graduate assistant. She is currently in her final year of a two-year master’s program at Nebraska’s College of Business, where she will earn a master’s of arts in business with a specialization in intercollegiate athletic administration (MAIAA) this upcoming spring.

Cassidy assists with various aspects of the Life Skills department including: community outreach and personal development events, major four-year tiered programming (Networking Night, Career Fair, etc), and promoting a social media presence for the Life Skills program. She also works with individual student-athletes from football, cross country, track and field and softball.

Cassidy was a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and a recipient of multiple esteemed scholarships to continue her education including: the N-Club Postgraduate Scholarship, the Frank Solich Postgraduate Scholarship (first female) and the NACDA John McLendon Minority Postgraduate Scholarship. Cassidy graduated from UNL in August of 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and communication studies. A native of San Bernardino, Calif., Cassidy resides in Lincoln with her wife, Marissa, and their goldendoodle, Rookie.