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Compete through cheering, not comparison
Author(s) -
McCarthy Claudine
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
college athletics and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7579
pISSN - 1552-8774
DOI - 10.1002/catl.30923
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , value (mathematics) , work (physics) , public relations , political science , sociology , media studies , management , engineering , computer science , visual arts , art , economics , mechanical engineering , machine learning
The pandemic forced athletics administrators to constantly rethink the ways they approached the daily work of an athletics department. For Nick Schroeder, M.S., Director of Athletics at Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina, leading through the COVID‐19 crisis led him to embrace a fresh perspective about the value of sharing new ideas with colleagues. “As soon as you think you have figured out the best way to do something, someone has a new idea or process that can be beneficial to us. Oftentimes in sport, we get in the comparison game. I think this crisis allowed athletics departments to forget about comparing and get into the sharing mode of what is best for our students,” he said.