The Bench...

Earlier I wrote about having mentors and a cause, now today, I share with you the importance of the 'bench.' Not the bench in a sports standpoint, where you sit...but the people that do not make up the starters.

"I told myself it's not about me. It's about the team. And it's about how I can help the team get better." - Zach Bohannon

As someone, who did not often get the starting nod in sports, I found it important to know my role as someone off the bench. Currently, as the Sports Information Director, I know how important it is to have people ready and equipped to fill in on our team and staff. I spend time cross-training and building up each member of the team to fill in the roles. Immediately in the hiring and training process with employees, I engage and share with the team members that there is no role too great or too small for me and for them. We are going to be equipped to doing the best that we can to offer the best media and public relations service to the student-athletes, coaches, fans and media that we can.

As you enter the field of sports, the tenacity to succeed is enhanced when you are willing to sacrifice the title and do the work necessary to get the job. 

The climb to get to the top of Herndon at the Naval Academy was one of the best exercises that I have ever seen in teamwork. The desire and energy of the plebes at the Naval Academy to get someone to the top is unprecedented.