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>> My name is Pam Wettig,
Pamela Wettig, but I go by Pam.

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And I'm currently the senior associate
athletics director here at University of Denver.

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And I have the privilege of working
with coaches and student athletes.

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In particular I supervise the 2 basketball
programs and work with our student athletes

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in trying to help them with their
career interests and internships.

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So primarily I do more employer relations

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because obviously we have this
amazing career center that --

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you know with career counselors and so on.

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So when I'm walking into the office and I think
I have my day planned and I have my priorities A

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through whatever, that usually doesn't happen
because you know it's an ever evolving world.

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When you deal with people, you never
know what you're going to get every day.

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So I -- that's what makes my day interesting.

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As I said I work with the athletes, and
in particular I've been spending a lot

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of time trying to really hit the streets and
get contacts and get to know different employers

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and different options so
that our student athletes --

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and again all of our student
athletes are students first.

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So they all have majors.

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And we have wonderful career counselors
in all the different areas on campus.

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But I think we have a unique situation
where we have very, very marketable people.

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So I'm just out there trying to find more
opportunities and, then of course we share

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that with all the students
but just trying to help them.

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Again, we're not going to get them the job.

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That's not our intention to you know do
that necessarily, but find opportunities.

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I would say right now, I'm in a real
comfortable place and that, sure,

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I spend a ton of time at the university.

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I mean obviously we've got games.

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I mean this weekend's a perfect example.

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I mean we've got games every single
night and 2 or 3 of them a day.

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And you know I go to almost all of them,
as many as I can, but I've also grown

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and matured a little bit in terms of
I've burned out once when I was coaching.

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And I don't want to burn out again
doing the administrative part.

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So I think it's a challenge, but I think it's 1

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that as you get older maybe it's
just you try to figure it out.