{"id":19716,"date":"2018-09-27T09:08:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=19716"},"modified":"2018-09-27T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:08:56","slug":"all-star-administrator-beth-goetz-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/all-star-administrator-beth-goetz-96\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Administrator: Beth Goetz '96"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alumni<\/a><\/p>\n

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From soccer player at Clemson to the chief operating officer at UConn’s Division of Athletics<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cCHARACTER IS WHAT YOU HAVE <\/span>when you think no one is watching. You have got to live and breathe it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beth Goetz\u2019s definition of character has served her well so far. From her time as a Clemson soccer player to her current position as chief operating officer of the University of Connecticut\u2019s Division of Athletics, Goetz has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of intercollegiate athletics.<\/p>\n

Goetz began her experience with college athletics as a soccer player, transferring from Brevard College to Clemson her junior year. Team captain for the women\u2019s soccer team, she went on to earn her degree in psychology in 1996.<\/p>\n

Grad school and coaching came next. While studying counseling at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she coached the women\u2019s soccer team to eight winning seasons. It wasn\u2019t long before she became an assistant athletic director and the senior woman administrator for UMSL, setting aside her original plan to be a therapist. However, Goetz explains that her education in counseling and psychology has contributed to her success in athletics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was calling my coaches at 23 saying, \u2018What am I doing here?\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cBut once I got into it, I felt like I was making an impact on the athletes, which is what I would have been doing through counseling as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 12 years at UMSL, she moved on to positions at Butler University and the University of Minnesota, where her responsibilities and leadership gradually increased.<\/p>\n

Her current role at UConn has her overseeing day-to-day operations as the sport administrator for football, softball and men\u2019s soccer, Goetz focuses on building a team culture. \u201cAthletics can teach and foster so many important things like commitment and time management, but it\u2019s also about believing you can accomplish more as a team than you can as an individual,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

While Goetz\u2019s career has taken her around the country and to different colleges, she wants one thing clear: \u201cI will always be a Tiger.\u201d During her time at Butler, Goetz fondly remembers one game in 2009 when the Tigers and the Bulldogs went head to head in men\u2019s basketball: \u201cI went into the game thinking, \u2018I can\u2019t really lose here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Since we wrote this story, Goetz has moved on to become the director of athletics at Ball State University earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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