In my sports admin class we have several guest speakers come to visit us with the most recent being our head athletic director, Coach Bill Popp. He came in to talk about his life through college and what he done afterwords to get to where he is now.
Coach Popp graduated from KSU in 1992 with a degree in sports management. Like our degrees at Reinhardt he also had to complete an internship. Coach Popp completed his internship at Oglethorpe University as an assistant coach for the baseball team. One thing lead to another and he was offered the head coach position and also asked to look after some other duties around the campus.He remained there for 12 years. The position for the Reinhardt head coach opened up and he applied for it and got the position on the circumstance that he would take over for the current Head Athletic Director. After 6months of being the head baseball coach he resigned to become the first full time AD at Reinhardt due to the coming of football at the school.
Coach Popp has many different duties as a Head AD, these duties include recruiting, retaining athletes and most importantly works on accounts making sure each coach has an allocated budget that they can use for Uniforms, Training GEar and Scholarship dollars for players. Finally, his main job is also to help start fundraising programmes so that there is always money in the Reinhardt Athletics Budget.
I loved hearing what Coach Popp had to say about his career since College and it has given me a new belief in that there are many possibilities on where you will end up despite the degree you obtain or the career you may go for straight away.
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