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>> My name is Sarah Dillon.

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I am the Assistant Director of
Athletics at Lancaster Bible College.

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My primary role is to fundraise
for the department and then also,

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I am the sole academic support individual
for the department for student athletes.

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So a typical day, I sometimes meet with
potential sponsors, and I'm always meeting

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with students to talk about scheduling
issues or time management, study skills,

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organization, and things like that.

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So those are the two big parts of my day.

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There are 200 student athletes on
campus, which might not sound like a lot,

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but for a campus of 2000, it's a
pretty high percentage of involvement.

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I have adopted-- I did some graduate
work at the University of South Carolina

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and we used the appreciative advising approach
and so that's really a holistic approach

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to getting to know a student and
building a relationship with them.

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And so it provides a really
great foundation for what

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that meeting would look like with a student.

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So really getting to know what their heartbeat
is, why they're at Lancaster Bible College,

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what they want to do with their degree,
and then how they're going about that.

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So what is their plan for being successful
academically and extra curriculars and also

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in having an internship or some
sort of professional experience?

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And our goal is to kind of start building
that from the freshman year moving forward,

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so that it's a holistic approach.

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We have the Chargers Club,
which is a booster club

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to really involve individual
donors, alum, parents.

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And then we also have corporate
sponsorship opportunities.

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So those are two different fundraising
caveats in which we're kind of working

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on simultaneously, each of
which are individualized

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for our 13 intercollegiate sports.

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So it's a lot of juggling and it's really
kind of new to Lancaster Bible College.

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So it's all new projects for the first time.