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Finding Collaboration with Pitt Athletic Director Heather Lyke
Madam Athlete
English - July 25, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBCareers Business Health & Fitness careers in sport female athlete sports medicine athletic trainer professional women interview team physician gender equality career journey women in sports Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On today’s episode, I’m talking to Pitt Athletic Director Heather Lyke about finding collaboration.
Heather is currently the Athletic Director at the University of Pittsburgh and one of just six women ADs leading an athletic department in one of the Power Five conferences. Heather was a student-athlete at Michigan and returned to the world of college athletics after law school, where she’s stayed ever since. She previously worked at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State before becoming the Athletic Director at Eastern Michigan and finally at Pitt. While at Ohio State, she and five others who shared her aspirations of becoming an AD banded together to form what they called the group of six. Rather than feeling like they were in competition, they would share opportunities to help each other build skills, setting them all up for long-term success.
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