{"id":102364,"date":"2019-03-19T20:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T00:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=102364"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:09:17","slug":"anna-kempf-attends-2019-empire-8-conference-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=102364","title":{"rendered":"Anna Kempf attends 2019 Empire 8 Conference Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Five student-athletes from Elmira College recently participated in the annual Empire 8 Conference Summit, held at the Woodcliff Hotel and Spa in Fairport, New York, to learn more about leadership, teamwork, and community service. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Anna Kempf of New Woodstock was one of five student-athletes\nfrom Elmira College who recently participated in the annual Empire 8 Conference\nSummit, held at the Woodcliff Hotel and Spa in Fairport, New York, to learn\nmore about leadership, teamwork, and community service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick Cottone ’19 (baseball), Janie Kempf ’21 (field hockey),\nMacy Huntley ’19 (women’s lacrosse), David Keisler ’20 (men’s lacrosse) and\nTaylor Hanson ’21 (women’s soccer) were among the 39 student-athletes from\naround the conference at this year’s E8 Summit. Cottone and Huntley both\nattended the event for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The E8 summit is a grouping of the athletes from\nacross the Empire 8 Conference with the purpose of further developing our\nleadership skills and personal growth, while also taking time to help the local\ncommunity,” Cottone said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think this is very beneficial because the\nstudent-athletes in attendance learn many new leadership concepts, which we can\nbring back to our schools,” Huntley said. “It is also beneficial, for\nit increases opportunities for friendship and sportsmanship between\nstudent-athletes from the various schools.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s keynote speaker was Johns Hopkins University’s\nSenior Associate Director of Athletics, Jen Baker. A United State Naval Academy\ngraduate who spent seven years in the Navy, Baker joined Johns Hopkins\nfollowing stints as Senior Manager of Corporate Real Estate, Facilities, and\nOperations at Under Armour and as Associate Director of Athletics for\nFacilities at Cornell University. She spoke on the subjects of leadership,\nfollowership, and the importance of being good at both. Baker’s sessions\nfocused on relationships within the framework of teams and how important those\ndynamics are for personal and team success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My favorite part of this year’s E8 Summit was our\nkeynote speaker, Jen Baker,” explained Hanson. “She spoke about how\nbeing a good teammate and a good follower were equally, if not more important,\nthan being a leader. It was something I’ve never considered before. I think a\nlot of athletes are told to be leaders and step up, and while that’s important,\nit’s also completely okay and necessary to be the best teammate and follower\nyou can be. I loved learning new ways to improve myself as a teammate, and I’m\nexcited to bring it back to ECWS.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees at the Empire 8 Summit also heard from Houghton\nCollege’s Director of Athletics, Dr. Matthew Webb, who presented on the subject\nof understanding your followers as a key element of being a good leader.\nFollowing presentations, the student-athletes visited Ronald McDonald House\nCharities to volunteer with the organization’s upcoming spring sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The best experience was volunteering for the Ronald\nMcDonald House and seeing how appreciative they were when we finished our\nmission to help organize for their annual sale,” Keisler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to volunteering together at the Ronald McDonald\nHouse, Elmira’s student-athletes worked alongside fellow athletes from each of\nthe conference’s member schools in a variety of ice-breaker and team-building\nactivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Getting to know some of our competitors in this\nenvironment was cool because we were all there for the same reason,” Kempf\nsaid. “We did participate in some competitions, but all the schools were\nmixed, so we got to work together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anna Kempf of New Woodstock was one of five student-athletes from Elmira College who recently participated in the annual Empire 8 Conference Summit, held at the Woodcliff Hotel and Spa in Fairport, New York, to learn more about leadership, teamwork, and community service. Nick Cottone ’19 (baseball), Janie Kempf ’21 (field hockey), Macy Huntley ’19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}