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From the desk of Cindy Potter - Hard work and gratefulness gets you everywhere

Cindy reflects on her journey serving as CoSIDA president and the lessons of hard work and gratefulness she's trying to teach her daughter, as she prepares to pass the presidential gavel from one CoSIDA mom to another on the 50th anniversary of Title IX.
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Getting to know Erik Christianson, CoSIDA's new executive director

Erik Christianson begins his new role as CoSIDA's third executive director on June 13. Learn more about the person who will soon be leading us, in his own words. Click to read

Ashleigh Jones | Through My Lens

Ashleigh Jones joins 2021-22 CoSIDA Intern Brandon Jones to talk about her experience as a Black woman and a young professional in athletics communications on this episode of the Through My Lens podcast. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Changing with the seasons

Our years start in the fall and culminate with a flourish of activity in the spring with certain benchmarks along the way to let us know how the year is progressing. Brian Clinard of Spalding University can tick off his professional and personal life in a similar fashion. He takes us on his journey of growth to where he is today in this edition of Communicators Outside the Lines.

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Back in the (athletics communications) game

Four CoSIDA members who left the profession — Danny Kambel, Brian Ramsey, Brian Howard and Dain McKee — share why they decided to come back.

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A great boss, a better person

During times of difficulty, Matt McCollester of Richmond shows how to maintain excellence at work, humility, and trust to ask for help when he needs it.

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Young Professionals Spotlight: Baylor student Kalie Smith is a Woman to Watch

The latest “WoSIDA Women to Watch” series featured Kalie Smith, a student athletics communications intern at Baylor University. She shares how joining CoSIDA as a student has "upped her game," how the Baylor athletics communications department has supported her dreams and the importance of her faith.

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CoSIDA Awards Season

Each year, CoSIDA honors hundreds of its members and thousands of student-athletes for their achievements, contributions, careers and more. Today, we are announcing the winners of the Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest, ChangeMaker Innovation Award and the Grant & Scholarship 2022-23 Recipients.

Stay tuned for the announcement for the Publication and Digital Design Contest winners and the ongoing Academic All-America® releases. Special Awards features will continue to be published and archived at CoSIDA.com/2022SpecialAwards.

CoSIDA U Virtual Camp is June 7-8

The CoSIDA U Committee will be offering a two-day online camp targeted at undergraduate students, graduate students, interns and other young professionals who are early in their careers. These sessions are FREE to all and require an online registration at CoSIDA.com/Register. You will choose the 2022 CoSIDA U Camp banner to register and receive more information.

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#CoSIDA22 Know before you go" webinar to be held June 14 — bring your questions!

It's been three long years since we last got together in person. Save the date to join us Tuesday, June 14 at 2 PM Eastern to find out more about what to expect this year in Las Vegas at #CoSIDA22. Access the CoSIDA Attendee Hub to participate in the session. More details will be available on CoSIDA.com and @CoSIDAnews social channels when available.

#CoSIDA22: Use our social media graphic to let everyone know you're All-In

Registration is well over 700 already for what promises to be a fantastic convention June 26-29 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Share your excitement by downloading and customizing our free attendee graphic, courtesy of Gipper. The template gives you a free test-drive of Gipper's software for those interested in trying out the service.

Be sure to tag @CoSIDA news and #CoSIDA22 in your post. Click here for the template.

Name, Image & Membership (NIM) — CoSIDA is just as strong as ever

All-In Memberships will open this August; Rebranding work continues through the summer

CoSIDA bounced back from the pandemic big time this year with 3,076 — our second-highest total all time. THANK YOU.

This August CoSIDA is excited to continue to invest in you with launch of the new All-In Membership. Put simply, your institution is able to include an unlimited number of members for one low rate for the year. Click here to find those rates.

We want you to include your full communications staff, your creative colleagues, your students and your administrative leadership — anyone involved in telling story of your brand.

At the same time, work continues to identify a new name and logo that will unify our members and prospective members, and help us to be better advocates for our profession — which is vital to collegiate athletics.

For those in Vegas, be sure to join us Monday at 9 AM for a session to talk about our progress and your chance to ask questions live.

ACTION! Update your profile

As we introduce the All-In membership model for 2022-23, new demographic information has been added to your profile in CoSIDA.com. Please take two minutes to log in and update your personal profile at this link. Completing your profile allows us to better provide you the information relevant to you.

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