VSU, Career Athletes Connect Student-Athletes with Mentors, Training

Partnership Attracts Hundreds of Employers for Current and Former Collegiate Athletes

VALDOSTA, Ga. - Valdosta State athletics and Career Athletes have agreed to a partnership providing Valdosta State University student-athletes a unique resource for career development.

Over the past 10 years, Career Athletes has conducted over 800 training and development seminars at universities throughout the country providing much needed career education for over 250,000 student-athletes. In addition to their proprietary training and development seminars, Career Athletes builds and maintains customized career networking web sites for individual university athletic departments providing additional career education, mentors, access to career opportunities and potential employers upon graduation, and a platform to connect with athletic alumni who are encouraged to join the network as mentors and/or job seekers.

"This is another nice addition for the VSU athletic program. It's a way to assist both our current and former student-athletes," said Athletic Director Herb Reinhard. "In these stressful economic times, anything we can do to help our student-athletes to better market their talents and skills in the work place we are pleased to do."

Career Athletes is the leading provider of a wide range of dedicated career development services and software within collegiate athletics. Since the inception in 1998 to date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,200 individual colleges and universities nationwide, have utilized Career Athletes as a valuable tool in their transition from athletics to the workplace.

"It's obvious that the administration at Valdosta State cares about its student-athletes beyond their playing days and graduation, and we are excited to be partnered with such an outstanding institution," said Chris Smith CEO and President of Career Athletes. "Due to the demanding nature of collegiate athletics, these athletes face a unique set of challenges regarding career development not typically experienced by the general student-body. The current economic environment will provide even greater challenges for today's student-athletes to overcome, making career development more important than ever."

Career Athletes possesses the largest member based community of current/alumni student-athletes, representing a growing legion of athletes, athletic departments and hundreds of national, regional and local employers. Today, the on-campus training and development seminars Career Athletes provide to student-athletes are the most relied upon in the nation, with over 800 seminars conducted and over 250,000 student-athletes educated on-campus within college athletic departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level.

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