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Hayleigh Weissenbach is a campus coordinator for Mosaic, a program that supports the needs of degree-seeking UTC students on the autism spectrum. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Little did Hayleigh Weissenbach know that an initiative she began during her University of Tennessee at Chattanooga undergraduate days would change her career path.<\/p>\n

In the fall of 2016, Weissenbach\u2014now a campus coordinator for the UTC Mosaic program\u2014came to the University to play softball and study criminal justice.<\/p>\n

She was pretty successful at both, receiving two degrees\u2014a bachelor\u2019s in criminal justice (with a minor in psychology) in 2020 and a master\u2019s in criminal justice in 2022\u2014while batting .281 in 210 overall games for the Mocs softball team with 33 doubles, seven triples, six homers and 78 RBI. The outfielder\u2019s career highlights included being a three-time member of the All-Southern Conference Academic Team.<\/p>\n

The youngest of five siblings, she was the third Weissenbach to leave home to play college softball. She came to East Tennessee from her hometown of Moreno Valley, California, to see another part of the country\u2014following in the footsteps of older sisters Ashley (who pitched for Hampton University in Virginia) and Shelby (who played for Drury University in Springfield, Missouri).<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sisters, we all joke about how my sister Ashley made the path, my sister Shelby paved the path and then I swept the path,\u201d she said. \u201cThey both encouraged me to go out of state and as far away and get a different experience\u2014get different cultures and try and be a part of something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their little sister is still in Chattanooga due to being a part of something.<\/p>\n

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Hayleigh Weissenbach appeared in 210 games as a member of the Mocs softball team. Photo by Ray Soldano\/GoMocs.com.<\/p><\/div>\n

As a student-athlete, Weissenbach said she noticed many people on campus \u201cused the \u2018R word\u2019\u2014retarded\u2014as just slang all the time and it made me really uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

She learned about the negative implication of the \u201cR word\u201d during her high school days in California, where she was a member of Martin Luther King High School\u2019s Peers Always Working Side by Side (PAWSS)\u2014a program focused on integrating students who had a spectrum of disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cPAWSS was kind of a buddy program; it was connecting with these students and making sure they were having a holistic experience,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of the students that I interacted with hated when people used that word because a lot of people have disabilities that are invisible; you\u2019re hurting them when you say that word, and it\u2019s used in a very negative connotation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018R word\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean dumb or stupid; if you mean to say, \u2018Oh, that was so lame,\u2019 then say it\u2019s lame. Lame and the \u2018R word\u2019 are not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weissenbach said she was bothered by how many people tossed the word around casually, even in her social circle. Instead of doing nothing, \u201cI was encouraged to move forward and try and do a little movement on campus to get people to understand that the word is inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

She reached out to the University\u2019s Disability Resource Center (DRC) with the idea of creating a \u201cStop the R Word\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately when I mentioned it to the DRC, they helped me orchestrate a movement to get people involved,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

Dr. Michelle Rigler, executive director of the DRC and the Mosaic program, said that while it wasn\u2019t unusual for a student to contact her office, it was atypical coming from a student-athlete.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot that athletes don\u2019t do that kind of thing, but that\u2019s the first time an athlete had ever approached me to want to do a \u2018Stop the R Word\u2019 type of campaign,\u201d said Rigler, who came to UTC in September 2004. \u201cI was absolutely thrilled at the way she carried it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t just start out doing something and then drop the ball; she went from start to finish and knocked it out of the park\u2014and she involved other athletes. It was the first time athletics had been so involved in our work. Now we partner in a lot of other things together.\u201d<\/p>\n

UTC softball coach Frank Reed wasn\u2019t surprised that Weissenbach took such a leadership role in the initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe definitely fills that bill of being someone who didn\u2019t just sit back,\u201d Reed said. \u201cYou get to be a leader by being a voice and letting people know that you have beliefs and concerns\u2014and those are the things you want to exemplify through what you do.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I tell our athletes is that you can tell people what you\u2019re going to do if you want them to follow you\u2014but you\u2019ve got to be able to live up to it. You can\u2019t talk it and not walk it. I think she\u2019s an example of somebody that talks and then walks it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cStop the R Word\u201d campaign allowed Weissenbach to learn more about the DRC. After discovering Mosaic, a program developed to support the needs of degree-seeking UTC students on the autism spectrum, she began working with the DRC as a student mentor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of the staff in Mosaic started out as mentors,\u201d Rigler said, \u201cand their career trajectory changed when they started working in that program. It\u2019s just a really special program\u2014and I don\u2019t like using that word \u2018special\u2019 all the time\u2014but it\u2019s special in terms of once you\u2019re connected with it, you\u2019re really connected with it and the students and with the work that we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Weissenbach, \u201cWhen I first got connected with the DRC and began working with the people there, they were like, \u2018You should become a mentor for Mosaic.\u2019 I was immediately hooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While in her graduate program, Weissenbach continued to work with Mosaic in a part-time role before joining the department full-time in September 2022. She partners with other programs and departments at UTC, and \u201cWhen she says she\u2019s going to do a program, it\u2019s going to be really, really well executed,\u201d Rigler said.<\/p>\n

Among Weissenbach\u2019s roles are coaching \u201cabout 10 to 12 students\u201d and running the Mosaic Events Committee, working with an array of students to ensure events are sensory-friendly.<\/p>\n

She compares much of her Mosaic work to skills she honed as a student-athlete.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though it\u2019s not a sports team, Mosaic is team- and collaboration-oriented. We definitely feed off each other,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want to make sure that we\u2019re providing the best experience holistically for our students, and we know that\u2019s through teamwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like in athletics, we want to put the best foot forward and have a lot of fun. If you\u2019re enjoying whatever you\u2019re doing, it\u2019s going to turn out very successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her accomplishments with the program don\u2019t surprise her former softball coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe played with a lot of enthusiasm on the field, and I\u2019m sure she translates that into the workplace,\u201d Reed said. \u201cShe\u2019s just passionate about what she does, and that\u2019s one of the things I liked about her as an athlete. She\u2019s going to work at it until she gets it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

With two criminal justice degrees on her resume, Weissenbach is putting them on hold\u2014for now. If she does return to that discipline, she can envision using her experiences to study how disabilities and the criminal justice system \u201ckind of get intertwined,\u201d citing factors like an inability to make eye contact.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen an officer wants to shine a light in your eyes and you\u2019re avoiding it,\u201d she explained, \u201cit becomes suspicious behavior\u2014but a lot of the same symptoms involve people on the autism spectrum. Long-term, if I could do anything, it would be to create a more universally taught training for mental health awareness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had a passion for being kind, spreading awareness, being helpful towards others and making sure that others\u2019 voices are heard, so I just want to do something that makes a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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