Article Vision and transformation in Lyke's first 13 months

[Chris Peak]

When Pitt Athletic Director Heather Lyke speaks about the department she administrates, two concepts repeatedly show up:

Vision and transformation.

Colloquially, she is perpetually looking for things that can be improved.

Lyke counts former Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger as one of her mentors and one of the people who made her the administrator she is today. His philosophy guides and informs Lyke’s professional approach, and one nugget he shared with Lyke early in her career has influenced her since she became Pitt’s Athletic Director last spring.

“He always used to say, ‘You don’t walk into a job with a golden baton,’” Lyke said to a group of reporters on Wednesday morning in the Petersen Events Center.

And so it was that Lyke arrived in Pittsburgh last March with her eyes wide open, looking for ways to take the proverbial baton she had been handed (indirectly) by Scott Barnes and get it a little closer to golden.

Read more: https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/vision-and-transformation-in-lyke-s-first-13-months

 

[Saboteur]

When Pitt Athletic Director Heather Lyke speaks about the department she administrates, two concepts repeatedly show up:

Vision and transformation.

Colloquially, she is perpetually looking for things that can be improved.

Lyke counts former Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger as one of her mentors and one of the people who made her the administrator she is today. His philosophy guides and informs Lyke’s professional approach, and one nugget he shared with Lyke early in her career has influenced her since she became Pitt’s Athletic Director last spring.

“He always used to say, ‘You don’t walk into a job with a golden baton,’” Lyke said to a group of reporters on Wednesday morning in the Petersen Events Center.

And so it was that Lyke arrived in Pittsburgh last March with her eyes wide open, looking for ways to take the proverbial baton she had been handed (indirectly) by Scott Barnes and get it a little closer to golden.

Read more: https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/vision-and-transformation-in-lyke-s-first-13-months

She puts alot of people to shame with her quiet, but effective leadership.
Perhaps the most enjoyable result of her efforts is the fact that she has so effortlessly silenced the Pgh talking/writing heads who understand next to nothing about college athletics apart from reading scores, yet boast like like the brat in school after the teacher leaves the room