athletic director
athletic director
Job description of an athletic director.
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PAM WETTIG: My name is Pam Wettig-- Pamela Wettig, but I go by Pam. And I'm currently the senior associate athletics director here at University of Denver. And I have the privilege of working with coaches and student athletes. In particular, I supervise the two basketball programs, and work with our student athletes in trying to help them with their career interests and internships. So primarily I do more employer relations, because obviously we have this amazing career center with career counselors and so on.
So when I'm walking into the office, and I think I have my day planned, and I have my priorities A through whatever, that usually doesn't happen, [LAUGHS] because it's an ever-evolving world. When you deal with people, you never know what you're going to get every day. So that's what makes my job interesting.
But as I said, I work with the athletes. And in particular, I've been spending a lot of time trying to really hit the streets, and get contacts, and get to know different employers and different options so that our student athletes-- and again, all of our student athletes are students first, so they all have majors. And we have wonderful career counselors in all the different areas on campus, but I think we have a unique situation where we have very, very marketable people. So I'm just out there trying to find more opportunities.
And then of course, we share that with all of the students, but just trying to help them. Again, we're not going to get them the job. That's not our intention to do that, necessarily, but find opportunities.
I would say right now, I'm in a real comfortable place in that, sure, I spend a ton of time at the university. I mean, obviously we've got games. I mean, this weekend's a perfect example. I mean, we've got games every single night, and two or three of them a day.
And I go to almost all of them-- as many as I can. But I've also grown and matured a little bit, in terms of I've burned out once when I was coaching, and I don't want to burn out again doing the administrative part. So I think it's a challenge, but I think it's one that, as you get older, maybe you just try to figure it out.
So when I'm walking into the office, and I think I have my day planned, and I have my priorities A through whatever, that usually doesn't happen, [LAUGHS] because it's an ever-evolving world. When you deal with people, you never know what you're going to get every day. So that's what makes my job interesting.
But as I said, I work with the athletes. And in particular, I've been spending a lot of time trying to really hit the streets, and get contacts, and get to know different employers and different options so that our student athletes-- and again, all of our student athletes are students first, so they all have majors. And we have wonderful career counselors in all the different areas on campus, but I think we have a unique situation where we have very, very marketable people. So I'm just out there trying to find more opportunities.
And then of course, we share that with all of the students, but just trying to help them. Again, we're not going to get them the job. That's not our intention to do that, necessarily, but find opportunities.
I would say right now, I'm in a real comfortable place in that, sure, I spend a ton of time at the university. I mean, obviously we've got games. I mean, this weekend's a perfect example. I mean, we've got games every single night, and two or three of them a day.
And I go to almost all of them-- as many as I can. But I've also grown and matured a little bit, in terms of I've burned out once when I was coaching, and I don't want to burn out again doing the administrative part. So I think it's a challenge, but I think it's one that, as you get older, maybe you just try to figure it out.