POSTSEASON RECORDS REVIEW OPPONENTS MEAC PIRATES COACHES PREVIEW HAMPTON Academic suces Student-athletes involved in learning, leadership and service SAILLS Hampton University has a proud tradition of athletic excellence. In fact, Hampton’s success on the playing field would not be possible without the student-athletes’ success in the classroom. Due to the importance of academics at the university, the Department of Athletics implemented the Athletic Academic Support Program in 1998. The program is headed by LaNea Winston, Coordinator of Academic Support for Athletics. Winston and her staff are responsible for monitoring the academic progress of all student-athletes to ensure they are meeting both NCAA and university regulations. The program also provides study hall, tutorial services and academic support for student athletes. In its effort to provide the student-athlete with the best tools for success on and off the field, the program adopted the NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills program. Hampton University’s version of the program is called Student-Athletes Involved in Learning, Leadership and Service (or SAILLS). The SAILLS program is geared toward the total development of the student-athlete through athletics, academics, career development, personal development and community service. The program’s commitment is also to provide an effective study hall program, which facilitates the development of student-athletes as critical thinkers with a variety of integrated learning skills. Student-athletes are given the opportunity to acquire appropriate communication skills and decision-making abilities that will enable them to manage their personal and professional lives. The program also assists student-athletes with opportunities to develop the foundation for a lifelong commitment to volunteerism. SAILLS is a program committed to the goal of assisting and developing the total person. SAILLS has provided various seminars that range from preparing for success in life to time management and drug awareness and responsibility. The program also reaches out to the community through Pirates Conquest-Pirates Conquering the Community. Student-athletes visit area elementary and middle schools to speak about the challenges of balancing athletics and academics. “SAILLS is the key to Hampton’s student-athletes’ present and future achievements, both on and of the field and in the clasrom. This program sets out to acomplish the Hampton University mision of an education for life, which is to ensure the future suces of the student-athlete in both his or her personal and profesional lives.” 16 2013 Hampton Football hamptonpirates.com
Hampton Football Media Guide 2013
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