Pumping Up Pamplin Tours

Athletics Director Clark Yeager and student-athletes and SAAC members David Berman and Lindsay Nixon, met with the student tour guides from the Admissions Office to provide them with interesting data about the athletics and physical education department to better engage and inform prospective students and their parents during their regular stop at the Pamplin Sports Center.  Information ranged broadly from the fact that 75% of Lewis & Clark graduates take more than the required two physical education activity courses and that the only Rhodes scholar selected from L& C was a student-athlete. The student tour guides asked very good questions and collected a great deal of information.  Lindsay and David added more personal detail and insight into the life of a student-athlete in more intimate breakout sessions following the information session.

Earlier in the day the entire physical education and athletic staff met with John Schneider from the Counseling Center, Bess Austin from the Health Center and Melissa Osmond from Health and Wellness to discuss how we could all best collaborate to help our students cope with common issues of stress, anxiety, eating disorders and abuse of alcohol and other drugs.  It was very evident that these friends of students were very aware and knowledgeable of the many issues that face student-athletes and very respectful of the role coaches play in their lives.  It was an inspiring and productive collaboration of professionals with the real beneficiary being L & C students.