For the second-consecutive year the NCAA is reaching out to student athletes with an interest in sports administration or coaching.
Starting Sunday in Indianapolis 300 student athletes will take part in an open forum to discuss career tracks and options. According to a release by the NCAA:
The forum will help the student-athletes gain a better understanding of the different career fields in sports administration and with the day-to-day experiences in coaching. During the forum, student-athletes will have the opportunity to listen to keynote speakers, learn best practices for gaining employment, and better understand what future expectations will be once they get a job.
Student athletes from Divisions I, II and III in both men’s and women’s sports are present. Some of the leading sports are basketball, cross country, track & field, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and volleyball.
Robert Vowels, NCAA VP of student-athlete affairs, said the hope is to get current student athletes talking to coaches outside of their team.
“This is a great opportunity to bring student-athlete leaders together and put them in contact with successful individuals who can provide insight on the careers the student-athletes may one day want to pursue,” Vowels said. “We want to provide the student-athletes with opportunities to grow and development, and offering a career forum is a great way to complement their collegiate experience.”
Current players will get real-world lessons from coaches in instruction on organization, administration, ethical concerns, teaching, communications, injury prevention and conditioning, growth, development and evaluation. Followed by instruction on operations, sports information, television and new media, budgets and finance, marketing and business strategies, student-athlete development, compliance and sport performance.
““Many times, people only see one side of NCAA student-athletes, and that centers on athletic performance,” Vowels said. “These individuals are also leaders in the classroom who one day may be leaders in their communities, too.”
They are selected for the forum by athletics administrators at their respective schools who view them as leaders on their campus. Many of the student-athletes are members of their Student-Athlete Advisory Committees.
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