A New Year!

I look forward to meeting many of you on my visits to campus this coming year. You will be hearing, or have heard, about a Conference-wide blood drive that we're going to try and do over the course of the year. If you're selected as a Conference SAAC rep, we will have our annual meeting at Wartburg on November 14th. In the meantime, please keep me informed of stuff that you are doing as campus SAACs. We want to promote here and on our new website, which I hope you have seen. Click on the link below and enjoy this video interview with Hannah Baker, Wartburg '10, who is a finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year and was Wartburg's SAAC President last year.
-- Chuck Yrigoyen, IIAC Commissioner

http://www.youtube.com/iowaconf#p/u/0/KFT8pCpcdYA

Luther Athletes Serving Others

Terrific video summary of an athletes-driven service organization at Luther. Double-click in the video window to open it up for full view.

Coe Hosts Sports Camp for School Kids

The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at Coe College recently hosted its second Polk Elementary School Sports Camp. Coe also hosted the Polk kids back in October, and it was a great success. This is a free camp of three to four hours that includes lunch. "It has been really rewarding," said Coe SWA and SAAC adviser Randi Peterson. "We give them all lunch as well," she added. Approximately 90% of the kids at Polk Elementary are on a free lunch or reduced-cost lunch subsidy, so food AND FUN are important to the kids!

Wartburg Earns NCAA Award for S-A Leadership

Wartburg College Director of Athletics Rick Willis announced Tuesday, March 30, that the athletic department has earned an NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Leadership Conference Recognition Award. The award is sponsored by the Division III governance staff, according to a release sent out by the NCAA.

According to the release, the purpose of the award is “to recognize institutions that have successfully completed action plans that impacted the collective good of the community; students, athletes, staff and citizens of the community.” After a review of the Action Plan Updates from the institutions attending the 2009 NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Leadership Conference in Chicago, Wartburg was selected as the second winner.

The governance staff pointed to the Kids Day N’ Knights program, co-developed by senior women’s track and field athlete Hannah Baker of Keota and senior baseball pitcher Billy Schmitt of Farley and supervised by head women’s soccer coach Sara Johnson, as a “wonderful example of how your student-athletes were successful in impacting the collective good of the community.”

NEW VIDEO POSTING

The last one! A final video of the Leadership Conference still in the works.

NEW VIDEO POSTING

Another one!

NEW VIDEO POSTING

Here is the third PSA from the Student-Athlete Leadership Conference. Sorry for the delay ... the video needed to be converted for some reason.