Sports Analytics Club Program
Our mission is to leverage sports analytics to promote data science education and career development, particularly among students of color and young women.
02/20/2026
Long before data analytics became part of classroom instruction, Baltimore was producing athletes whose careers stretched far beyond the city. Raymond Chester, a 1970 graduate of Morgan State University, built his reputation in professional football as a Pro Bowl tight end whose combination of size and speed redefined the position. Morgan State, founded in 1867 during Reconstruction, has long served as a pillar of Black higher education in Baltimore, and Chester’s career is part of that legacy.
Nearly five decades after his graduation, students at Baltimore City College, founded in 1839 and desegregated in 1954, turned their attention to his professional record through the Sports Analytics Club Program. In 2019, the SACP club, hosted by City College, assembled and submitted a performance portfolio in support of Chester’s consideration for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Rather than simply recounting highlights, students examined his production across seasons, positional impact, and how his career compared with tight ends already enshrined. The work required them to navigate historical statistics, interpret performance trends, and organize findings into a document meant for review beyond the classroom. It was applied research with real stakes.
What makes this project distinct is the layering of institutions. A public high school that predates the Civil War partnered with an HBCU founded just after Emancipation to revisit the career of a Morgan State alumnus whose path moved from Baltimore to the national stage. Students were not only learning analytics. They were engaging with a legacy that began in their own city and contributing to how that legacy is evaluated today.
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Sports Analytics Club Program
The Sports Analytics Club Program (SACP) develops and supports SACP Sports Analytics Clubs at high schools and middle schools across the United States, each with a STEM teacher advisor and university faculty partner.
SACP demonstrates a unique collaborative architecture of secondary school teachers, university faculty and professional sports data analysts (SMEs) to team with students to execute sports data analytics research projects that are fun, measurable and actionable.
Our Mission
The SACP mission is to advance STEM education in the United States and promote STEM relevant professional careers for young women and men, driving sports as the educational platform.
