Intercollegiate athletics at Cal State University, Monterey Bay are an important part of the vitality of the future of this outstanding educational institution. The university believes that intercollegiate athletics provide ideal opportunity for the physical and social development of students. The Student-Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) serves as an outlet for student-athletes to voice concerns and ideas. In addition, SAAC will make efforts to serve the community as the community has served them by giving them the opportunity to participate in intercollegiate athletics.
Intercollegiate athletics is, and must always be of secondary importance to the university's primary goal of involving students in fostering their own intellectual, spiritual, ethical and social development. Student-athletes are here to get an education first, and participate in intercollegiate athletics second.
Goals
- To give student-athletes a place to go with questions, ideas and concerns.
- To make available academic counseling to all student-athletes if they require it so they maintain normal progress toward a degree, while encouraging them to strive for academic excellence and the achievement of their degree.
- To offer student-athletes the opportunity to grow and excel in their sport by participating on teams where the goal is to achieve team maximum potential.
- To provide quality and competitive scheduling so that our teams will be well prepared and motivated when they compete.
- To provide coaches who are intensely concerned with the total academic, athletic, physical, social and moral welfare of their student-athletes.
- To strive to see that all coaches and student-athletes understand and work within the regulations and guidelines set for intercollegiate athletics by the University, the CCAA and the NCAA.
- To work to develop the support of the College community - student, faculty, staff, alumni and friends - for our teams to experience that support by attendance at games and matches.
- To promote in the media, the community and in the public's mind, the best image of California State University Monterey Bay in its academic stature, its athletic goals, its teams and its success.
- To serve the community in a way that reciprocates the way in which the community has served collegiate athletics.
