Summary

• First meeting for women’s alumnae Rebecca and Sam, and new team presidents Tianna and George
• Responding to Rec Sports with clarifying questions about how much their feedback is specific to the presentation as a Rec Sports development document, as opposed to feedback on the vision itself
• Good amount of interest in making curated versions of the presentation for specific audiences as we move to development and relationship-building

Further meeting detail

Present

• Rebecca Belian
• Jake Bodner
• Kevin Cunningham
• Jamie Frech
• George Janke
• Tianna Kilgore
• Meg Loomis
• John Palladino
• Vanessa Rojano
• Karl Seibert
• Matt Trenary
• Sam Taylordean
• James Wilber

Detailed notes

• Introductions for Rebecca, Sam, George, and Tianna
• Presentation feedback: Admissions / Athletics pursuit(s)
  • Sam: Separate the goals?
  • Sam: Is there anything athletics can offer without us self-funding?
    • Trenary: I don’t think so. Their funding is the benefit.
  • Karl: No presedence for Club Sports admissions help
  • John: No real concerns in the feedback. Both should still be pursued.
  • Frech: This is a development point of view
  • Sam: Any lessons learned by Men’s Rowing that can help us?
    • Trenary: Will reach out to their coach.
  • Bodner: Lines drawn in the sand
    • Frech: But nothing definite
  • Trenary: Separate?
    • Palladino:
      • Any harm in separating?
      • Let’s consider the cases and choose best one:
        • Relationship with Athletics to pursue admissions
        • Or asking for admissions support as a Club Sport looking to progress
    • Wilber: This is a reinforcement of lessons/assumptions.
    • Bodner: Maybe the concern is that if we pursue Athletics, it could be wasted work?
• Presentation feedback: Dropping “university-employed”
  • Trenary: Lots of reasons for Rec Sports to not to have coaches. Not really their mission.
  • Trenary: But seems important to us
  • Karl: Use of this deck is development. Donor would probably only care that the coach is full-time.
  • Rebecca:
    • Coach should represent the U.
    • Don’t lose it, maybe a different iteration?
  • Palladino
    • The tone through all of this is disciplinary, which is frustrating.
    • Makes sense to keep it on radar but not hurt our relationship.
  • Trenary: Rowing coach paid through outside org, even benefits, but like parking is a U-specific thing for employees
  • Wilber:
    • Stop light presentation, development gets xyz. But we maintain holistic view.
    • Willing to help with versions
    • Little surprising to get push back
  • Trenary: Will ask about this being compliance issue or actually not part of vision.
• Presentation feedback: Removing Elbel as target
  • Karl: Really thinks Elbel in there is important to resonate with potential donors
  • Bodner: Could create weird conversations it donors thought money was going to Elbel when it might not be
  • Rebecca: Agree w/ Bodner
  • Sam: Agrees with use in conversation, not in writing
  • Karl: That’s fair.
  • Frech: Design images will really tell the story, even if not the actual design
    • Trenary: A student has worked on some of this
• Karl: NCAA-status insulates sports from being cut. Seems like a big consideration.
  • Rebecca: EMU cut many NCAA sports
  • Trenary: Don’t want to get into a situation where Athletics has everything we want but we can’t get it
    • Bodner: That’s where we are now
  • Meg: Back to the original question of separating Athletics from other presentation elements
  • Frech: Is the feedback saying to separate? Or that Rec Sports can’t really do anything with Athletics pursuits.
    • Rebecca: Seems to be answering on behalf of the Rec Sports department
    • Trenary: I’ll ask to clarify
• 2021: Athletics and Development conversations begin
  • Distrubute MR30 vision to fall supporters to begin development conversations
  • Frech: Can help with messaging
    • Karl: Those we know, we can do. Those we don’t, Jamie’s help would be good.
    • Frech: 1-pager.
      • Could do more with data. FB push.
  • Palladino: Do we have a list of names for our external conversations with Athletics and Admissions?
    • Trenary: We have a list. But not much more.