JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The Carson-Newman women's golf team and the university's student success department hosted the Elite Women's Workshop Friday afternoon in Stephens Burnett Memorial Library that allowed all female student-athletes to hear from three successful business women that have ties to Carson-Newman University.
Janet Hayes, an attorney in Knoxville and the chairwomen of the Carson-Newman Board of Trustees, Joan Cronan, former Women's Athletic Director at the University of Tennessee and current board member on the Carson-Newman Board of Trustees, and Misty Mays, an engineer and President and Owner of Management Solutions, LLC in Knoxville, were on hand to speak with the student-athletes.
"These girls exhibit leadership on the field and court and we are going to talk a lot on ways they are going to take these leadership skills and transform them as they move forward in life, how they are going to use those in careers and their families and all those things they face in the future," Hayes said.
The trio's messages included ways to help leverage the elite athlete mindset while balancing their career, family and faith.
"Leadership skills are timeless. They are things they are cultivating now and developing now. We hope some of the things we can talk to them about now will help them, not only as they are planning for the future, but also as they go about their day-to-day academic work and their chosen sports and all their extra-curricular activities. It is things that will help them build character and become grounded out and help them figure out who they want to be," Hayes said.
Sports ranging from softball to women's soccer to women's swimming to women's basketball and others were in attendance at the workshop.
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