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Boomerang Cam Fuller’s athletics journey brings him back to northeastern Wisconsin by Justin Skiba

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am Fuller’s athletics journey has taken him from the golf greens of Door County, to courtside at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, to now overseeing nearly 600 student-athletes and coaches at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Fuller – a 2008 graduate of Sevastopol school and three-time Packerland Conference Player of the Year as a standout golfer – continued his success on the links for the Division I UW-Green Bay Phoenix team as a four-year varsity letter winner in the Horizon League.

went on after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 tournament. For the first time in the tournament’s 82-year history, all games were held in one state: Indiana. And Fuller was instrumental in the tournament’s success. He has since returned to northeastern Wisconsin after being named St. Norbert College’s director of athletics and physical education in 2021, and we caught up with him to talk about his new position. The following interview has been condensed and edited for space.

After graduating from UW-GB in 2013 with a degree in business administration, Fuller returned to the Horizon League, this time as an intern in the Indianapolis office. Over the course of nearly eight years, he advanced to become the league’s assistant commissioner for competition, branding and sponsorship.

Justin Skiba (JS): What are you enjoying about your new position?

In that role, Fuller served as the tournament manager for the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which

I wake up every day and have an excitement that we have an opportunity to make a major impact on the lives of our student-athletes and position their

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Cam Fuller (CF): For any individual to be successful, there must be a fit and a similar ethos. From the first conversation I had with the leadership team at St. Norbert College, I sensed a strong value alignment.


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