April 8, 1999

MORAVIAN TO HOST MAC STUDENT-ATHLETE ADVISORY COMMITTEEE WORKSHOP

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Administrators and student-athletes from Moravian College will host a workshop on Friday, April 9^th on Student-Athlete Advisory Committees for the other 15 schools in the Middle Atlantic Conference.

The Moravian Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is one of the most active in the MAC and has the goal of starting an active SAAC on every MAC campus. Several MAC schools have SAACs but only Messiah College and Moravian currently have active SAACs.

Leading the workshop will be Moravian seniors Stephanie Rickards (Lansdowne/ Upper Darby HS) and Scott Fritz (Barnesville/Mahoney Area HS), who attended the 1998 NCAA Leadership Foundation Conference. Rickards is also one of 23 members of the NCAA Division III National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Moravian’s Dawn Ketterman Benner, women’s tennis coach and senior women’s administrator, supervises Moravian’s SAAC. Mira Coleman, who works in the NCAA national office with the NCAA Division III SAAC, will also be in attendance.

The workshop will consist of three sessions. The first session, which runs from 10 to 10:45 a.m. with have the student-athletes from all the schools in a panel discussion with members of the NCAA Division III SAAC on "How to start a campus SAAC and how to keep it going." This meeting will take place in the Snyder Room of the Haupert Union Building. The administrators from each school will meet with Coleman on the same topic in the UBC room.

Session two from 11 to 11:45 a.m. will discuss the "Goals and objectives of the NCAA Division III SAAC" in Prosser Auditorium with Coleman the featured speaker.

The final session will run from 11:50 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and include a buffet lunch. The topic will be "Starting a conference SAAC" featuring Megan Patruno from the Centennial Conference.