Becoming A College Administrator

I decided I wanted to be a college administrator while I was a student athlete at Georgia State University. As a member of SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory Committee), I was exposed to NCAA rules, eligibility, and various marketing strategies for our athletics program.  Our administrators that were involved opened doors for us to do contribute to our community, develop strategies on improving student/coach/advisor communications within the athletic department, and most importantly gave us a forum to express our ideas to help build our program as a whole.  Although there has been a lot of position changes at Georgia State I can certainly say that while I was a student athlete our administrators were very passionate about our advancement, and they worked hard to open various opportunities for us while building our program year after year.  I am still fairly young but each of my administrators impacted me in a way that I am sure they probably don't even realize.  Their personal, career, and athletic support and guidance helped shape the person that I am today.  They inspired me to seek a position specifically in college administration.  Because of their shared knowledge  and experience, I have developed my own passionate for doing the same with current student athletes.  I was very luck to land my job at Colgate University because I have been asked to be a SAAC administrator, and have the opportunity to help student athletes develop in the same areas that administrators were able to help me, in addition to contributing to a successful DI athletics program.