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To advertise the great work done by each campus SAAC throughout the academic year, the Conference profiles the recent accomplishments of a different member institution's SAAC every month. Topics may include Community Service projects, ideas of how to promote SAAC on Pac-10 campuses, proceedings of SAAC meetings, happenings at orientation or kick-off events, activities that SAAC sponsors on a campus, or seminars that are incorporated into a Life Skills program. Articles and pictures are submitted on the first of each month by a representative of the profiled institutional SAAC. Washington State University Submitted by: Danielle Berish, Washington State University SAAC President, Women's Swimming At Washington State University, our Student Athlete Advisory Committee has been busy working on three main objectives: increase student-athlete involvement in SAAC, increase the "athlete's presence" on campus, and foster growth and camaraderie among our athletes. To achieve our first goal, we very successfully re-organized the structure of our SAAC this year. By engaging already-involved team leaders, SAAC has been able to reach out to each of our student-athletes in one way or another. Our redesigned subcommittees - Community Outreach, Education/Hot Topics, Activities, and Campus Connections - provide more leadership position opportunities within SAAC. Each committee established unique goals, including various community service projects, article submissions to our campus newspaper, guest speakers to educate SAAC, and events to bring athletes together. An additional success of SAAC this year was a revamping of the Washington State SAAC website. It is now much more user friendly and is a go-to resource for any member. Increasing student-athlete involvement on campus is still a work in progress. This year we started a partnership with ASWSU, our student government, to build the bridge between student-athlete life and campus life. Our SAAC President now serves on the ASWSU Student Advisory Board to the President. Next year, we hope to become even more involved with ASWSU and other Registered Student Groups on campus. Finally, our goal of bringing student-athletes together was capped off with our Student Athlete Talent Show, "That Coug's Got Talent." The football team participated, complete with a Richard Simmons imitation; the soccer team performed a skit that portrayed healthy competition against UW; and various acts followed. Every sport's team was in attendance, proof that we had a lot of success with the event. Go Cougs!
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