BCSP Notes . . .
Three to graduate from NCAA Leadership Institute
CIAA Director of Public Relations,
Shera White, SIAC Director of Championships,
Communications and Marketing, Harry
"Trae" Stinson III and Howard University
Assistant Sports Information Director,
Chevonne Mansfield, will be among 22 graduates
next week of the NCAA's Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males and Females.
The Leadership Institute is designed to address the critical shortage of senior-level professionals of color in athletics administrative staff at NCAA member institutions and within conference offices. The Institute prepares diverse leaders through a 12-month leadership training and skills development experience and enhanced job-related competencies in selected areas through completion of four professional development sessions, practical work and a week-long intensive workshop.
The Institute is led by a diverse group of consultants and leaders in business, higher education and intercollegiate athletics.
White is a ten-year veteran in the public relations field who received her Bacherlor's degree in Mass Media Arts from Hampton University and a Masters of Education with an emphasis in Sports Management from Old Dominion University. She is the primary contact for all media inquiries and operations out of the NCAA-Division II athletic conference, hosting 12 institutions in three states.
Stinson, who received his undergraduate degree from Florida State and Master's in Sports Administration from Georgia State, graduate, is entering his fifth year with the SIAC. He promotes, through the media, the conference and all of its 13-member institutions and student athletes. He is also responsible for increasing the marketability and image of the SIAC by developing marketing strategies, community initiatives and branding of the SIAC.
Mansfield has been at Howard two years after serving as a grad assistant at Maryland-Eastern Shore. She earned her undergraduate degree in Communications at St. John's and a Master's degree from UMES.
Cynthia Cooper gets Hall of Fame induction
Cynthia Lynn Cooper-Dyke, Prairie
View A&M's head women's basketball coach,
was officially inducted into the Women's
Basketball Hall Of Fame this past weekend in
Knoxville, Tenn. She was joined in the honor with
fellow inductees Jennifer Azzi, Jennifer Gillom,
Sonja Hogg, Jill Hutchison, and Ora Washington.
In a weekend full of festivities, the Class of 2009 was lauded for a lifetime of achievements and received the coveted "Eastman" award as the newest group of inductees into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
Cooper-Dyke is agruably the greatest women's basketball player of all-time. She is a two-time NCAA champion with USC in 1982-83 and 1983-84, followed up by a 1985-86 finals appearance where she was named to the All-Tournament team. Cooper went on to play internationally, and won a gold medal in 1988 and bronze medal in 1992 representing the United States in the Olympics.
Cooper-Dyke is most known for putting the WNBA on the map. She was a four-time champion with the Houston Comets and named regular season league MVP twice.
© 2009 Azeez Communications, Inc.