Dr. Fred Green, Faculty Athletics Representative at TROY, was recently honored by the Sun Belt Conference during their meeting in Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 22.
Dr. Green acts as liaison between academic departments and the athletic department. Ensuring harmony between the two entities requires overseeing student-athletes and their progress within class and maintaining their progress toward their degree and communicating to faculty and staff any events and how that may affect attendance from those student-athletes.
Dr. Green credits Chancellor Jack Hawkins, Jr. with creating a family atmosphere at TROY, which helps boost the amount of support student-athletes receive from faculty.
“Our faculty is more supportive than any other, even within the Sun Belt,” he said. “We are all family and work together.”
For the last 20 years Dr. Green has served with TROY and the Sun Belt Conference. He says the most rewarding aspect of this role has been to see the student-athletes walk across the stage for their diplomas.
“Troy does a great job, for example, if our teams are to be at a conference tournament or something along those lines where they would miss graduation, then our athletic department and Dr. Hawkins, put on a special graduation ceremony,” he said. “A couple years ago they asked me to speak at that, it was an honor to see those families and students and how happy they all were. It’s by far the greatest reward of this entire position.”
Humbled by this honor, Dr. Green says he hope that he is remembered for how much he cared for all students, especially the student-athletes. Future plans for Dr. Green include assistance with the transition of a new FAR for TROY.
“I will be there for questions and be there to help mentor the next person,” He said. “Dr. Lance Tatum, now president of Northwest Missouri State, was the FAR before me, and he spent a lot of time with me going over things before I took the position, so I hope to do the same. here at TROY.”
Recently Dr. Green has joined the Knights of Columbus and is planning in his retirement to do more charity work with them and his parish. Outside of charitable work, he plans to travel and enjoy maintaining his 52 acres of land.
