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Get to Know Faculty Liaison -- Rick Klotz

The Colgate faculty liaison program provides Colgate student-athletes with the opportunity to develop working relationships with Colgate faculty members outside the classroom or formal advising environment in an effort to enhance their academic and athletic experience.

Faculty liaisons can function in many roles, including providing additional academic guidance for student-athletes and coaches, educating student-athletes about educational expectations and policies, and providing a link between academic faculty and the Colgate athletic program. The program also establishes a formal connection between each head coach and a member of the academic faculty.

This collaboration can provide an additional level of assistance for student-athletes in developing a positive and productive balance among academic, athletic, and co-curricular commitments. The faculty liaison program is administered jointly by the offices of the Dean of the Faculty and the Vice President/Director of Athletics.

Name & Liaison To Which Team

Rick Klotz, Men's Soccer

Assistant Professor of Economics

What I Like About Being a Faculty Liaison

I look forward to engaging with student-athletes and seeing the commitment to activities outside the classroom.

Influential Person in My Career

My undergraduate adviser at Hobart who gave me the opportunity to pursue an academic career.

Idea or Invention I Wish I Had Thought of ...

The Panenka

Favorite Sports Memory

As a player, scoring a game-winning goal against Hamilton College in the conference tournament. As a fan, the 1999 Champions League Final: Manchester United vs. Bayern Munich

Favorite Memento

A ceramic nerpa seal that my then girlfriend, now wife, gave me many years ago.

Favorite Magazine, Hard-Copy or Online

The Guardian (newspaper)

Favorite Music Genre, Singer or Group

Bruce Springsteen

Favorite Book

Sustainability through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World, because my brother wrote it. Somehow he managed to link my lack of heading ability to a sustainability concept.

Did you know…?

Rick Klotz scored 42 goals and 12 assists in his Hobart College soccer career from 2001-2004. These totals rank him third in career points, second in career goals, and first in career game-winning goals.

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