With morning and night practices, game days, traveling, classes and class work loads, it can become hard for a student-athlete to find time in their day to utilize the resources that an average college student has access to.
Director of Student-Athlete Development for the Student-Athlete Support Services Angela Montie said she and the entire SASS staff try to help student-athletes balance this lifestyle.
“Some see it as why do student-athletes get this building or these services,” Montie said. “I say we have the same services that are available on campus, we try to provide the tutoring, the career stuff, at times when it’s available for their schedule.”
Montie said she is motivated every day by the opportunity to come to work and make a difference in someone’s life.
“Every student athlete and every student on campus has different needs and we’re able to come here and work with somebody each day who might have a different need than the person that was in your office even five minutes ago.”
Montie said SASS is dedicated to helping student-athletes become a fully developed individual.
“By the time they leave here, we want them to be prepared for life after college,” Montie said. “Here in SASS we have the ability to affect student-athletes in a variety of ways, from academics, to careers, to personal issues, personal development, and out in the community.”
Montie said she doesn’t expect to have one huge impact on the student-athletes she supports in her career, but it’s the little things that make her job worthwhile.
“It’s little bits here and there, and so my goal is that I’ve made an impact on all of the students that have come to me for whatever reason.”