SAAC Attendance

Men’s Swimming and Diving
Bryan Stahl
PJ Sullivan

Women’s Swimming and Diving
Stephanie Glover
Jess Lewis

Women’s Track and Field
Katie Tersher
Lauren Echko
BJ Grant

Men’s Cross Country
Trey Miller
Alex Fenton Bowman

Women’s Cross Country
Janine Ricci

Women’s Tennis
Maggie Yahner
Cathy Nimitz
Kristen McVitty

Men’s Tennis
Houston Borrick

Men’s Golf
Greg Carlin
Kyle Stough

Women’s Golf
Kristen Simpson

Rowing
Augusta Stratos
Kelsie Chaudoin
Renee Albers

Volleyball
Sarah Kirkwood
Shannon Davis

Softball
Meghan O’Leary
Karla Wilburn
Lindsay Preuss

Men’s Lacrosse
Joe Dewey

Women’s Lacrosse
Claire Bordley
Catherine Chambers

Baseball
Jeff Lorick
Zach Carter

Wrestling
Matthew Federici

SAAC Minutes

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Goals for the Year
a. Integrate Student Athletes more with student body
i. Under development: Adopt an Athlete- each residence hall will adopt a team and support an athlete that lives in that hall. Student athletes will report to their residence halls upcoming games and results.
ii. Organizations list- this is handed out to all freshmen. The list highlights all organizations around grounds to be of good use to student athletes, especially first years.

b. Community Service events
i. Canned Food Drive- Meghan O’Leary
Last year UVa had a weak showing. VT did one at home basketball game, and we were supposed to have an inter-school competition. We’re trying to get Marketing involved this year to make it more effective. Possible inter-team competition this year?

c. Create more dialogue with SAM/SAAC
i. Social Night- Lauren Echko (3rd year interest Student Council) – SEPTEMBER 23. (We’re going to try this every 4th Sunday each month)- Trivia night, bring a teammate.
1. Ideas of the night were: Uhall access = dodge ball, etc., board games.
d. Improvements/ Committees
i. JPJ dining- Proposal, Budget
1. New Nutritionist- Rob Skinner starts Sept 17th. Office will be in JPJ. He can take you through the dining hall line and show you what is healthy to eat. New chef this year as well who is open to suggestions.
2. Athletic 50- trying to get it approved. Meal plans will probably not change until next year.
ii. Foreign Language: Currently working with Dean Most for more flexibility- Professors and TA’s are being very tough on athletes, only allowing them to miss two days.
iii. Fourth year banquet- last year coordinators, finger food, Craig Littlepage speaking?

3. Other
a. Face Book warnings- Janine
i. Relay to the teams: NO PERSONAL INFO
1. Student athletes are targeted. Reporters can go on there and use pictures as discriminating evidence. Be careful of the groups you’re involved in. Language is an issue as well.
2. Soon if someone Googles your name your picture on Facebook will pop up. Go into Privacy settings to stop that from happening!
3. Any problematic questionable information on there can hurt fourth years applying for jobs and third years applying for internships.

b. SARG- Student Athlete Resource Group. Comprised of Student Athletes who have excelled in their major. Advice given will be facilitated through academic advisor.
i. Requirements: 3.2 in your major and taken at least 15 credits in your major. Pass this on to your teammates!

c. New Athletics home page coming soon-
d. Other issues: Open for others to give concerns
i. JPJ- serving same food.
e. What’s going well?
i. X Country- going well. 30 points this weekend. We beat William and Mary. 7 women’s schools, 9 men’s (came second).
1. Hosting ACC’s on October 27. BIG DEAL.
ii. Volleyball vs. Tech on Friday @7pm.
iii. Softball open tryouts on Tuesday.
iv. Rowing having open tryouts. Email Sarah Cannon.
v. Special Olympics 10k on Saturday at 8am.