Northwestern University Athletics
Kenneth Avila Chosen for NCAA National Leadership Conference
5/24/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 24, 2007
EVANSTON, Ill. - Baseball player Kenneth Avila has been chosen as one of 325 student-athletes across the country to participate in the NCAA National Leadership Conference May 27-31. Avila, a freshman from Corpus Christi, Texas, just finished his first year as a collegiate student-athlete. Avila played in 29 games, making 21 starts between third base and shortstop.
The NCAA National Leadership Conference provides NCAA student-athletes with a forum to openly discuss issues that may affect them on their campuses and in their communities, while also providing them with the opportunity to enhance their leadership, communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills. The leadership conference also promotes better communication among student-athletes, coaches, administrators, faculty and communities. The five-day leadership conference consists of daily exercises and activities to help the student-athletes develop as individuals and as contributing members to a group.
The conference is an outreach of the successful CHAMPS/Life Skills Program and involves close to 325 student-athletes each year who compete in fall, winter and spring sports in Divisions I, II and III. Many of the student-athletes who participate are members of their conference and campus Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAACs). Each NCAA member institution that has a CHAMPS/Life Skills Program is encouraged to nominate student-athletes from their campus for the annual leadership conference.
