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per Sid:
Tough loss for U
No doubt Gophers football coach Jerry Kill, who is on vacation now, has to be upset that Lynn Holleran, director of the McNamara Academic Center for Student-Athletes, is leaving the university to take a job at Penn State as a senior associate athletic director for administration, after putting together one of the great college academic programs in the country. In the past year, every sports team except men’s basketball had a collective GPA of 3.0 or higher.
When Pam Borton was named the women’s basketball coach in 2002, Holleran, Borton’s partner, worked as an assistant to former president Bob Bruininks. Then when Eric Kaler became president, Holleran moved to the athletic department and in charge of academics.
Holleran says she got a big opportunity when offered the Penn State job, but people close to her claim she wasn’t happy with the university, despite that she loved working with Kill and the rest of the university’s coaches, who will greatly miss her. At Penn State, she will join former Gophers Alumni Association President and CEO Phil Esten, who left the university to go to Cal-Berkeley and then went to Penn State to become deputy director of athletics.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/296816201.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
Go Gophers!!
Tough loss for U
No doubt Gophers football coach Jerry Kill, who is on vacation now, has to be upset that Lynn Holleran, director of the McNamara Academic Center for Student-Athletes, is leaving the university to take a job at Penn State as a senior associate athletic director for administration, after putting together one of the great college academic programs in the country. In the past year, every sports team except men’s basketball had a collective GPA of 3.0 or higher.
When Pam Borton was named the women’s basketball coach in 2002, Holleran, Borton’s partner, worked as an assistant to former president Bob Bruininks. Then when Eric Kaler became president, Holleran moved to the athletic department and in charge of academics.
Holleran says she got a big opportunity when offered the Penn State job, but people close to her claim she wasn’t happy with the university, despite that she loved working with Kill and the rest of the university’s coaches, who will greatly miss her. At Penn State, she will join former Gophers Alumni Association President and CEO Phil Esten, who left the university to go to Cal-Berkeley and then went to Penn State to become deputy director of athletics.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/296816201.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
Go Gophers!!