Women Soccer’s Kendra Sasa Selected for NCAA Leadership Conference 4/25/03
Sophomore One of 273 Student-Athletes In Nation Selected to Participate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vanderbilt junior women’s soccer player Kendra Sasa (Wheat Ridge, Colo.) was one of 273 student-athletes selected to participate in the 2003 NCAA Leadership Conference, May 25-29, at Disney’s Wide World of Sport’s Complex and Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

The NCAA Leadership Conference provides NCAA student-athletes with a forum to openly discuss issues that may affect them on their campuses and in their communities, while also providing them with the opportunity to enhance their leadership, communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills. The leadership conference also promotes better communication among student-athletes, coaches, administrators, faculty and communities. The five-day leadership conference consists of daily exercises and activities to help the student-athletes develop as individuals and as contributing members to a group.

Sasa is a midfielder on the Commodores’ soccer team. She has competed in 37 games over her two years of competition. Sasa in majoring secondary education and mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences. She has been a member of the Dean’s List every semester since the fall of 2000. Sasa is also a two-time member of the SEC Honor Roll.

Other nominees from Vanderbilt were women’s track and field junior Vensherrie Campbell, men’s basketball junior Russell Lakey and football junior Norval McKenzie.