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Klein is one of six student-athletes from the Mountain West to be selected to attend, while this marks the second straight year a member of the UNLV swimming and diving program will represent the school at the national forum, as <strong>Janelle Nguyen<\/strong> from the women&#8217;s squad attended the 2016 forum.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day forum is designed to assist student-athletes in charting their career paths,\u00a0with the primary focus on college athletics. The forum will provided the student-athletes with interactive experiences with successful individuals in the sports business and a peek into their day-to-day duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Those in attendance will also hear from a variety of speakers and panelists,\u00a0highlighted by <strong>Stevie Baker-Watson<\/strong>, associate vice president and director of athletics at DePauw University; <strong>Jason Burton<\/strong>, head women\u2019s basketball coach at the Texas A&amp;M University-Commerce; <strong>Clyde Doughty Jr,<\/strong> director of athletics at Bowie State University; <strong>Oliver Luck<\/strong>, NCAA executive vice president of regulatory affairs; <strong>Felicia Martin<\/strong>, vice president of the NCAA Eligibility Center; and <strong>Craig McPhail<\/strong>, director of athletics at Lees-McRae College. The participants also learn best practices for gaining employment and gathering a better understanding of what future expectations will be once they get a job in sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited for this opportunity and I&#8217;m looking forward to getting to know people in the athletics world outside of UNLV,&#8221; said Klein. &#8220;I really want to take advantage of my trip to see what&#8217;s out there and what kind of careers are plausible\u00a0for me in the college athletics after school. When I got the email about it this spring I was interested\u00a0and I then talked to Janelle, and her experiences last summer led me to think it would be a great opportunity\u00a0for me to learn about the administrative\u00a0side of athletics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In order to be eligible be selected to the forum, student-athletes needed to be in their junior or senior year and be nominated by their school&#8217;s athletic department, before the NCAA then selects the final 230 participants.<\/p>\n<p><em>Press release courtesy of UNLV Swimming &amp; Diving\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNLV&#8217;s Ethan Klein, a rising junior on the Rebels&#8217; swimming and diving squad, is one of 230 student-athletes that has been invited to attend the NCAA Career in Sports Forum,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":130976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[61819,61820,547],"class_list":["post-258392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-ethan-klein","tag-ncaa-career-in-sports-forum","tag-unlv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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