Amber McCray to attend NCAA Leadership conference
May 22nd, 2006
University of Florida sophomore Amber McCray was chosen to participate in the 2006 NCAA Leadership Conference to be held May 28-June 1 in Lake Buena Vista.
McCray was on of slightly more than 300 individuals selected from the more than 350,000 NCAA student-athletes.
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.
The conference is an outreach of the successful CHAMPS/Life Skills Program and involves close to 325 student-athletes each year who compete in fall, winter and spring sports in Divisions I, II and III.
The inaugural conference sponsored by Entergy Corporation and Walt Disney World Sports was held in May 1997 in Orlando, Florida.
McCray is a two-time Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll selection and was an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III Third Team pick in 2005.
