In the
Classroom.
My undergraduate career has been a commitment to thinking across disciplines on purpose. Spanish and Biology: language and living systems. How organisms communicate, adapt, and survive — and how people do the same.
Most people pick a lane in college. I built a degree that refused to. The combination isn't random — it's a reflection of how I actually think: across fields, across contexts, across rooms where most people only speak one language — literally and figuratively.
Studying this minor gave me a framework and a language for something I'd been doing instinctively for years.
Leadership Theory and Research, organizational behavior, the philosophy behind why people follow and why they don't — these courses refined the instinct into a philosophy.
An academic examination of how coaching philosophy, team culture, and leadership behavior connect to on-court outcomes — built at the intersection of what I was studying in the classroom and what I was watching unfold inside a D1 program every day.