A message from Rutgers College Athletic Director Keli Zinn

[ad_1] Virtually two weeks in the past, Rutgers College introduced the hiring on Keli Zinn as the varsity’s new Athletic Director and some days in a while August sixth was her first day on the job.

Now just some days after that, Zinn launched a message directed in direction of the Rutgers group and the Scarlet Devoted about her pleasure for the way forward for Rutgers Athletics and the upcoming season for a number of Fall sports activities.

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Expensive Rutgers Nation,

With my tenure now formally underway and the beginning of the 2025-26 educational calendar and fall sports activities seasons upon us, I needed to succeed in out to share my pleasure for our collective future and my gratefulness to your welcome and kindness.

From the second I stepped on campus and was launched as your Director of Athletics, the outpouring of assist and nicely needs for Nate and I've meant the world to us. Now we have already had the possibility to fulfill so lots of you and stay up for persevering with to get to know the Rutgers group within the days, weeks and months forward. I need to as soon as once more thank President Tate for his assist and belief in me. Essentially the most profitable organizations thrive when there's alignment, and he and I are cleareyed concerning the unbelievable potential at Rutgers. With the precise sources and expertise on and off the sector, we'll compete with the nation’s elite.

Nate and I've realized a lot about New Jersey in only a quick time frame. And though we’re not fairly able to take a aspect on the nice debate of Pork Roll vs. Taylor Ham, we now have shortly acknowledged that New Jersey is a particular place, and the folks right here love their State College.

With the primary official athletics competitors simply days away, I stay up for getting out to our venues to observe our student-athletes compete and characterize Rutgers. Girls’s soccer will get the yr began on Aug. 14 after which we’re off to the races: discipline hockey, males’s soccer, volleyball, cross nation, males’s and ladies’s golf and soccer. I can’t wait to expertise gameday at Rutgers for all our sports activities and expertise The Rutgers Boardwalk earlier than our soccer workforce kicks off its season in opposition to Ohio on Aug. 28. I welcome all of you to affix us in our way forward for promise with the Scarlet Knights and don’t hesitate to introduce your self as you see me there.

The world of faculty athletics is experiencing steady change however there are alternatives for fulfillment inside the chaos. We're going to assault every day with depth, drive and a dedication to excellence. We are going to work to push one another to be nice in every thing that we do. We count on the perfect from our student-athletes within the classroom and in competitors. We are going to search excellence from our coaches and workers, making certain that we assist the mission of this college. And I'll maintain nobody to a better commonplace than I maintain myself, all with the purpose of creating Rutgers followers and alumni pleased with what we'll accomplish collectively.

As I shared from the rostrum a pair weeks in the past, we didn’t come right here to simply compete.

We got here right here to win! To win convention AND nationwide championships. I can’t wait to get this journey began and assist Rutgers Athletics attain the extent of success I do know it's destined to realize.

Go RU!

Keli ZinnRutgers Athletic Director

Similar to Zinn talked about above, the primary athletics competitors for the Scarlet Knights this Fall shall be a girls’s soccer match, as Rutgers will welcome NJIT to Yurcak Area for a 7:00pm sport. After that's when issues kick into excessive gear, as a number of applications together with the soccer workforce will open their 2025 seasons.