 Rob Wenger reporting live from the Stevens University Mustang Athletic Gallant joined by Stevenian University Director of Athletics Brett Adams. Brett thank you for taking the time out of what I know is a very busy schedule and night for you to make an appearance on the show. Well thank you I'm really excited you know we've done a lot of these I've been a part of 23 of them I believe this will be the best so what happened is the students asked could they be involved and being a member of the student athletic advisory committee as the national chair of the student athletic advisory committee you know how valuable I think the sack is and how important they have in their role of shaping college athletics so when they came to me and they said that can we change it I said absolutely go at it and so there's a whole group of stack reps and students and coaches and faculty and staff who got involved and I'm a really I can't wait I've done 22 of these in the past and I think this one's gonna be really really fun. Absolutely one of the things I valued most here during my time at Stevenson was the ability of the student athletes to help shape their experience what they wanted to mean whether that be in the classroom on the court or something like the gala and what that takes for us to be able to actually shape that is the backing of our athletic department I've had a number of students talk about the support they feel from the athletic staff which obviously is spearheaded by you so what does it mean to have that level of reverence from the student athletes here to know that they have the ability to shape that experience because you have their their back. Well I have a few philosophies I was a college athlete once upon a time and I knew who was in the stands I knew when my mom showed up and it was really important to me when my family showed up and and I know I love Coach Gamber who I played for and was he was the athletic director and I knew what games he was at President Yoswe at York College everyone knew when he was at those games and I felt that my actions were gonna speak louder than words and if I really do care about all the sports cross-country track and field women's golf men's golf even the sports that don't get a lot of attention they certainly can have my attention and I felt if we did that the students would pick up on it that we do care and if when you have a caring athletic department both from faculty staff department it's meaningful it you'll play harder you'll play for your friends you'll play for you know the values so that was part of the environment that I wanted to create because it was so meaningful to me. Yes and you created this environment over the course of 23 years you've had incredible vision of what Villa Giulia College at the time could become and what Stevens University has become and will continue to become so the biggest question that everyone always has for you I'm sure and I know I always have because I know you so well. What's next for Stevens University and Stevenson Athletics? Wow that's a great question I'm not sure I want to tip my hand to the staff at College of Misericordia or Misericordia University now but as a former volleyball player and alumni are really important to me I love our Hall of Fame as we're sitting in front of it I love the athletes who came before and paved the way and I have a commitment to make sure that Stevens University is better tomorrow than what it is today if I do a really good job your degree and your education and your experience in athletics is going to be I have to make it better and so it becomes more valuable to you. So I'll tip my hat a little bit so we were the first women's beach volleyball program in the country in Division 3. My goal is to be the first men's beach volleyball program of all divisions in the NCAA and that's my goal all this and I are working on that right now we've talked to Kathy Duboyer from the AVCA we're working through it it's going to be a lot greater challenge because the NCAA doesn't recognize men's beach volleyball right now and women's beach volleyball was an emerging sport for women but somebody has to be first and USC was first when the NCAA didn't recognize women's beach volleyball either and it's too good of a sport it's too good for the students it's in and if women's beach volleyball is the fastest growing sport in the history of all sports in the NCAA I believe there is a market for beach players for the men. Absolutely as someone who's gotten to throw their shoes off get on the beach and volley around a little bit there's definitely a different and interesting vibe to it but if there's one thing I know about Stevens University and about Brett Adams that when you do something you're going to do it big so we're looking forward to see where that heads down the road and what's going to become of it. Yeah so I understand you have another year of eligibility left in beach not in indoor I know you're an all-american and you're a college coach so I don't know if you can be a college coach indoor for men and women and play on our beach team and as a graduate student so we'll see I mean we'll try that. We'll see if we can work out the kinks there I appreciate you thinking me. Brett Adams we thank you for joining us here on the show and we hope you enjoy the gala that you've helped create with the help of your student athletes. Welcome back to the CDU awards thank you. Rob Wenger reporting live from the Stevenson University Mustang Athletic Gala.