Leadership Academy Named for Baddour
The Carolina Leadership Academy, a nationally renowned training pro- gram for UNC athletes, coaches
and staff, has been renamed the Richard A.
Baddour Carolina Leadership Academy in
honor of the recently retired director of
athletics, who created the program in 2004.
This is the eighth year the academy has
been developing and supporting leadership
skills in and out of the competitive environment through interactive workshops,
feedback, one-on-one coaching, peer
mentoring and educational resources.
“The leadership academy means a great
deal to me because it touches every one of
our student-athletes and coaches,” said
Baddour ’ 66. “This is the highest compli-
ment I have ever received.” Chancellor
Holden Thorp ’ 86 announced the naming
at an event honoring Baddour for his 45
years of service to the University.
The program invests approximately
4,700 hours in training athletes and coaches
annually. About 400 athletes, including all
freshmen, participate each year.
“The CLA was an integral part of our
team winning the ACC regular season, the
ACC tournament, and the NCAA tourna-
ment this year,” said senior Kirk Urso of
the national championship men’s soccer
team. “CLA brought together a core
group of our team’s leaders to discuss real
issues that we were experiencing on our
team through the season and offered us
advice and solutions to help fix those prob-
lems. CLA also informed us about certain
pitfalls and warning signs that we needed
to be aware of as leaders in order to make
sure our team stayed focused and commit-
ted to the objectives that we had set out to
reach at the beginning of the season.”
“It’s a great tribute to Baddour’s impact
on Carolina athletics,” said field hockey
Coach Karen Shelton. “The leadership
training our student-athletes get has been
essential to our success on the field, but the
impact extends far off the field, to their
academic lives, social lives and the people
they are when they leave UNC. The
training is life-changing.”
Alumna Returns to Lead
American Indian Center
Amy Locklear Hertel ’ 97, of the Lumbee and Coharie tribes of North Carolina, will become
director of the American Indian Center at
UNC on May 1.
The American Indian Center at Car-
olina is one of few
centers on the East
Coast to focus
solely on American
Indian issues.
Locklear Hertel is
a project manager at
the Center for Social
in St. Louis, where she is a doctoral candi-
date at the George Warren Brown School
of Social Work. She earned her master of
social work and law degrees at Washington.
She serves as a trustee for a foundation
that seeks to improve the social and economic conditions of American Indian families and communities. She is a member of
the board of directors for the Community
Investment Network, a nonprofit that
encourages organizations and individuals to
engage in strategic giving to enable greater
social change in their communities.
She was president of the Carolina
Indian Circle as a student and was inducted
into the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Locklear Hertel
Low Tide
PHOTOS BY DAN SEARS ’ 74
It’s a rough winter for recreational and fitness class wimmers on the campus. Bowman Gray Pool has been
closed indefinitely after large paint strips began falling
from the ceiling. There’s no health concern in the makeup
of the paint, but there could be in swimmers getting hit
by large pieces. The 75-year-old pool is the mainstay for
the club swim team, fitness classes and recreational
swimmers in winter, and the University has worked out
arrangements with pools in the community in the meantime. Koury Natatorium, the varsity swim team’s pool,
also is available part time. At least there’s no required-to-graduate swim test anymore.
