Announced Guests: Jack Silverman, Yavapai college Athlete, Brenda Gomez Yavapai College Athlete, Joyce Lira, Human Resources director for Prescott.

 

Announced:! Club received a thank you card from Victoria and family for clean up.

Bud Announced Fireside chats on the 10th.

 

 

Sgts at Arms Clent and Josh fined everyone not note takers, fines for no pins and no birthdays. Josh and Clent paid  $10 for IOUS. Lots of Happy bucks, one sad buck for Calif. Fires. Teresa won the pot.

 

Speaker: Brad Clifford. Yavapai College Athletic Director. Brad first played basketball for the college, coached, then became Athletic Director.  Brad stressed the major traits of a successful college athlete and how these traits will enable them to be successful in future careers and life.

College athletes are goal oriented and have been competing their entire life. They know how to set goals and work hard to achieve them. Being goal oriented is a mindset prospective employers  look for. College athletes are mentally tough and resilient and have failed as many times as they have succeeded and continue to be mentally tough every day, even when they don’t feel 100 percent. For an employer, this translates into an employee who can be counted on under any set of circumstances.

Athletes are hard workers and good time managers and sacrifice things other students enjoy. An athletes schedule includes classes, homework, training, team meetings, travel and games. These students cram 25 hours into a 24 hour day, maintain a good GPA and are excellent candidates for employment. They are self- confident and develop these traits early on. A confident, mature student athlete will make an excellent employee.

College athletes have the ability to work with others toward a common goal as a team, are coachable, respectful and have an attitude that team goals are more important than individual goals. Most college coaches stress this point in the very first practice. Athletes know when to follow and when to lead. By the time they graduate from college most have been a member of a team for 16 to 18 years. Being a good teammate has become a habit. Our society looks upon athletes as leaders Most athletes are confident, resilient, strong communicators and will put the teams goals ahead of their own and have the potential to be leaders in private industry.