Guest Speaker Summary 2

September 7th,2010 Vic Mitchell came in and spoke to our class. He is the women's basketball coach at Shorter and also serves as the associate athletic director. His first job was as the women's basketball's coach at Reinhardt when it was a junior college. He got his undergraduate degree at UGA and served as a graduate assistant in the early 1980's. He is from southwestern Georgia and he spent six years at Reinhardt until moving on to Shorter. He coached slow pitch softball and started up women's cross country and women's golf. One of his points that struck me the most was that you should research the job before applying and make sure its a place you can be succesful. At Shorter they have to turn in an athletic budget and that Shorter uses athletics to increase revenue and bring in profits for the school. He also said you have to be able delegate and let the coaches do their jobs instead of trying to micro manage. Fundraising is significant to sustaining a program.