Student Spotlight: Riley Marx

Journey from Undergraduate to Graduate Experience

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Sport Management this past May, Texas A&M Archery standout Riley Marx ’24 ’26 has a new target: earning a master’s degree. She is now excited to pursue her graduate and post-graduate education goals while supporting the team that made her want to become an Aggie.

A young Riley Marx competes at the Aggie Invite

Riley Marx competing at the Aggie Invite during her teen years.

After moving from Chicago to Texas at an early age, Marx started pursuing archery because that’s what she thought everyone did in Texas. Training and honing her skills, she started competing in various tournaments and learned about the Aggie Invite, an annual archery invitational for all ages and skill levels. Marx recalled, “I have pictures of me really little competing here, and that’s when I started to want to come to A&M. I fell in love with the school and started doing everything I could to be able to come here.”

Marx entered our Sport Management program as an undergraduate and joined the archery team. From the start, she knew she wanted to pursue a graduate degree. “The beautiful thing about sport management is that there is such a wide variety of what that can entail, and there’s so many things I could do with my future,” she said. “My number one thing is I want to love what I’m doing.”

The transition to a master’s student has ramped up quickly for Marx, including additional responsibilities as a graduate assistant, practical gameday experience with Pepsi through an upper-level marketing class and continuing research on the physics of recurve bows.

Marx credits building strong bonds with friends and the support of professors including Wendi Zimmer, Paul Keiper and Lorinda Gomez throughout her academic journey and success on the archery team, which included competing for a spot on Team USA. “I can’t give enough credit for their helping me through everything with school, archery and my undergraduate research project. They’ve also been very supportive of me going to grad school,” Marx added.

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