Questions for the Alumni...

What advice would you give to our graduating seniors as they embark on the next steps of life?

TD: Use your teamwork and leadership skills that you gained from a rigorous college soccer program into your careers. Know that most people you will encounter did not have the awesome opportunity that you had playing high-level sports in college and therefore you own a life experience that is very special

SE: My father used to tell me “Do the right thing” I thought that was obvious advice, but I didn’t find it helpful and questioned how that jived with his other advice of “do what I say not what I do”. Now I work for a CEO that I admire, and he said to me. “Well, we can never go wrong by doing the right thing”. I thought that was brilliant and I recorded it in my database of quotes for posterity. The following is other advice passed on to me that I try to keep in mind since it is easy to do the exact opposite. Show up. Listen. Don’t talk about people behind their backs If you get invited to dinner go. If you’re not doing something to help you should be.