Keyes to Attend NCAA Leadership Forum
11/6/2013 11:53:00 AM | General, Track and Field
Ashley Keyes, a sprinter on the Syracuse track and field team and secretary of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), was selected to attend the annual NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Providence, R.I. Keyes is one of over 350 student athletes from Division I, II and III schools across the country. She will be joined by her academic advisor Mark Trumbo, one of 125 administrators that will also attend the event.
The goals of the conference are to discuss key-issues in collegiate athletics and to learn leadership skills to take back to their team and advisory committees, as well as to help them succeed in life.
"The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum is another type of educational setting that helps our student-athletes develop into more effective leaders and gets their thought process in motion which can help them on campus and even after they graduate," said Curtis J. Hollomon, NCAA director of leadership development.
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"It also allows them to communicate more on key topics of interest to them and to share best practices, while getting to know one another aside from competition. They then take ideas back to their Student-Athlete Advisory Committees and the results end up helping a wider range of student-athletes."
Keyes, a senior, is excited to attend the conference so that she can bring the skills she learned back to her team.
"Personally, I look to become a better leader in any situation that I'm put in. Â I want to bring that back to my team, whatever I learn as a leader. I am a senior so I'll hopefully I'll become a better leader and role model for the people who lead after me."
She also hopes that she can learn how to get things accomplished as an executive board member of the Syracuse SAAC and how to get more student-athletes involved in the committee.
"I'm hoping [the conference] will help with speaking up as a leader because right now in SAAC we're working on getting a sports nutritionist and sports psychologist and we're trying to see who to talk to [to get them]. We're learning how to put on events and how to get more people in sports involved in the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee."
This isn't the first time Keyes has been selected to attend a leadership council. She attended a workshop when she was in high school comprised of teachers, administrators and students from her school district with the goal of integrating the ideas of people on all different levels of the school system.
The conference begins on Thursday, Nov. 7 and will end on Sunday, Nov. 10. The Leadership Forum is one of the largest non-competitive gatherings of NCAA student-athletes representing their colleges and universities.Â
The goals of the conference are to discuss key-issues in collegiate athletics and to learn leadership skills to take back to their team and advisory committees, as well as to help them succeed in life.
"The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum is another type of educational setting that helps our student-athletes develop into more effective leaders and gets their thought process in motion which can help them on campus and even after they graduate," said Curtis J. Hollomon, NCAA director of leadership development.
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"It also allows them to communicate more on key topics of interest to them and to share best practices, while getting to know one another aside from competition. They then take ideas back to their Student-Athlete Advisory Committees and the results end up helping a wider range of student-athletes."
Keyes, a senior, is excited to attend the conference so that she can bring the skills she learned back to her team.
"Personally, I look to become a better leader in any situation that I'm put in. Â I want to bring that back to my team, whatever I learn as a leader. I am a senior so I'll hopefully I'll become a better leader and role model for the people who lead after me."
She also hopes that she can learn how to get things accomplished as an executive board member of the Syracuse SAAC and how to get more student-athletes involved in the committee.
"I'm hoping [the conference] will help with speaking up as a leader because right now in SAAC we're working on getting a sports nutritionist and sports psychologist and we're trying to see who to talk to [to get them]. We're learning how to put on events and how to get more people in sports involved in the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee."
This isn't the first time Keyes has been selected to attend a leadership council. She attended a workshop when she was in high school comprised of teachers, administrators and students from her school district with the goal of integrating the ideas of people on all different levels of the school system.
The conference begins on Thursday, Nov. 7 and will end on Sunday, Nov. 10. The Leadership Forum is one of the largest non-competitive gatherings of NCAA student-athletes representing their colleges and universities.Â
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