A Love of Sports and of Leading the Way

Autor/in	Elfman, Lois
Titel	A Love of Sports and of Leading the Way
Quelle	In: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 25 (2008) 17, S.35 (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-5411
Schlagwörter	College Athletics; Females; Athletic Coaches; Womens Education; Womens Studies; Career Development; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College athletes; Collegesport; Hochschulsport; Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Berufsentwicklung
Abstract	When self-professed "sportaholic" Kelly Mehrtens was chosen from more than 300 applicants to be the director of athletics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), she became one of a few Black women to lead a Division I athletic department. Mehrtens was a student-athlete at the University of Alabama, and her route to collegiate athletic administration was closely tied to her bachelor's degree in commerce and business administration. After graduating from Alabama in 1986, she trained in the discus at the University of Florida in the hope of making the 1988 Olympic team. When her competitive days were winding down, Mehrtens assumed she'd take a job in an accounting firm. It was a random question from the senior women's sports administrator at Florida, Ann Marie Rogers, that set her on the career path at which she's excelled for nearly two decades. This article features Kelly Mehrtens, one of the few individuals who has managed to become a part of a small but growing club of women athletic directors at Division I schools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10