The “athlete-activist” is the context for our research. We will present the third stage of our research on engagement and activism among women college athletes. We explore to what extent women college athletes think of themselves as athlete-activists, and act with political agency, within the larger wave of political and sports activism, and feminism and women’s rights. Much of the research and non-scholarly writing on the athlete-activist focuses on professional men. We are interested in women athletes in general and college age in particular. One guiding question is do women who play college level sports use their sports as a platform to promote awareness of social issues, are they engaged, how do they define engagement and are they activists and how do they define activism? A second question is to what extent an “Athletic Identity” may promote or prohibit engagement and activism. Our preliminary results from a state-wide survey show that social media seems to be the platform that college age women athletes use as a way to be engaged and speak out and up. Preliminary results also suggest that they stronger the athletic identity the less the athletes are “activists