Feb 4, 2018
At the NCAA Convention this past January, Patti Phillips caught
up with Carla Williams, the director of athletics at the University
of Virginia, and the first female African-American athletics
director to lead a Power Five Conference institution – which is
incredible!
During her time as a standout women’s basketball student-athlete at
the University of Georgia, Carla volunteered in the athletics
department and her career in administration was born. She went on
to be an assistant coach at Georgia during one of the most
successful periods in women's basketball history (including a run
for the national championship!). It’s truly fascinating that Carla
knew she wanted to transition to athletic administration while she
was coaching and used this platform as an opportunity to learn as
much as she could about the many angles of administration, which
became a reoccurring theme in Carla’s journey – be a lifelong
learner!
Carla is an incredibly hard worker, whose advice is "be the best at
your job.” This is what we tell all of you, our members, at our
summer institutes and at Convention. You have to be a rock star,
and Carla absolutely is.
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