Guest Speaker #2 - Coach Vic Mitchel

Coach Mitchell started off as a computer science major at UGA, he felt like he wanted to do something else. Which is why he went to the basketball coach during this time and volunteered his services as a coach for the summer camps at the school. This lead to him being the UGA mens GA for when the team went to the final four (the only team in school history to do this). The cool experiences he had as a GA was all down to volunteering the summer camps.

In the fall of 1986 Vic had a job ready for him at a middle school in Cobb county which he turned down to interview for the womens head basketball coach at Reinhardt college, he ended up getting the job. After four years at the school he decided to take the job at Shorter Uni. This is mainly because of recruiting and the fact it was a four year school. RC at the time was only two year.

Since Coach Mitchell has been at shorter he has taken over several roles, and only until the last couple of years has he been able to concentrate on basketball again. Golf, cross country, and AD were some of the other roles he undertook whilst at shorter.

As a leader, Coach Mitchell feels like philosophies are very important. He gave the class several of these, the one that stood out the most to me was ' the worst thing you can do for someone is something they can do for themselves' . I really enjoyed todays speech, I feel like Coach Mitchell taught everyone a valuable lesson not only in coaching but in life aswell.

Coach Bill Popp - Guest Speaker

Within the sports admin class, several guest speakers come in to talk to us about their personal experience and how they got to where they are now. Athletic Director Bill Popp was the guest speaker for today's class.

Coach Popp graduated from KSU in 1992 with a degree in sports management. As part of his degree he had to complete and internship, he did this at Oglethorpe University after completing this one thing lead to another and he was given the head baseball coaching position at the age of 23. He remained there for 12 years until interviewed for the position at Reinhardt. There were 75 applicants for the job and he was the lucky one. Two years later he was the promoted to AD as well as head baseball coach. Within the last six months Popp had to step down as the baseball coach and become the first full time AD at Reinhardt due to the coming of football at the school.

Popp has many duties as an AD, such as giving coaches their scholarship $, more specifically their budgets which covers a lot of  areas within a team. Also eligibility is a big deal for him as that is key within college sports. Finally, recruiting and retaining athletes is huge for him as the department has to meet specifications every year.

I really enjoyed listening to what coach Popp had to say about his own experiences but also the future plans for the school. He is a great guy to have has AD at the school.

 

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I am a junior at Reinhardt Univeristy. I am sports administration major and also play soccer. I came to Reinhardt on a soccer scholarship from England, I plan to stay in the USA after school to become a soccer coach.