Vic Mitchell-Shorter University Women's Basketball Coach

Guest Speaker:             Vic Mitchell                                                                               Date                 9/29/11

Position or Title:                        Women’s Basketball Coach                                          

Organization:                 Shorter University                                             

Instructions:

• Submit word-processed form via email attachment to instructor within two days after the visit.

Speaker’s Main Points:

Ø  Take Initiative-Don’t wait for things to happen

Ø  Started as Reinhardt’s women’s coach/ men’s assistant coach

Ø  Forced to make a hard decision between Shorter and Reinhardt

Ø  Shorter in Fall of ‘90

Ø  4 year was better for him than 2 year

Ø  Today 685 Athletes at Shorter

Ø  21 Competitive Sports

Ø  Have a plan for your future-Future bosses like this

Ø  Study people who know what they’re doing

Ø  Promise less deliver more

Ø  Don’t get satisfied

Ø  Pick battles big enough to fight and small enough to win

Questions for Speaker:

Ø  How much work does being a graduate assistant involve?

Ø  What does Acrobatic Tumbling involve?

Ø  What area should I try and grad assist in for administrative career?

Ø  What would have happened if you stayed at Reinhardt?

Sport Leadership Information Learned from this speaker:

ü  If you settle you’ll never get to the top

ü  You will be looked up to more if you make promises you can keep and do better on

ü  When forced to make a decision you have to evaluate everything properly

ü  Initiative can make a huge difference anywhere you work

ü  Don’t try and learn everything on your own; learn from the best

Student Name               Erin Courington                                    

Course                          PED 350                                                                                   Semester          Fall 2011          

Bill Popp-Reinhardt Athletic Director

Guest Speaker:             Bill Popp                                                                                  Date     9/27/11            

Position or Title:                        Athletic Director                                               

Organization:                 Reinhardt University                                          

Instructions:

• Submit word-processed form via email attachment to instructor within two days after the visit.

Speaker’s Main Points:

• Important to get masters
• 255+ athletes=most ever
• 82% of NAIA private schools
• Basketball national tourney started in NAIA
• Coach Popp created mission statement
• 10 to 1 ratio..to have 50 athletes need 500 contacts
• Eligibility
• Basketball 6 full scholarships
• Have to report what is spent per athlete
• Athletics has many committees

Questions for Speaker:

When will the football team start games

What other forms besides the funnel can a school go by

What careers are there that do not necessarily need a masters

Will scholarship money go up after football

Sport Leadership Information Learned from this speaker:

v  It takes will power to get to the top

v  Also many contacts

v  Sometimes once at the top you hire based on other things than how you got to the top

v  Volunteering can always help

Student Name               Erin Courington                                    

Course                          PED 350                                                                                   Semester          Fall 2011