Chuks Named Asst. Athletic Administrator at Williams
Courtesy Williams Sports Information
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Williams College Athletic Director Lisa Melendy announced today that Jen Chuks has been hired as an Assistant Professor of Physical Education and an Assistant Athletic Administrator.
Chuks, in her second year at Williams as an NCAA Internship recipient, serving as an assistant women's basketball coach and Athletic Administrator, will now serve as a liaison between Eph head coaches and the Admission Office to create a strategic plan for recruiting qualified student-athletes, implementing support programs for matriculating student-athletes, coordinating an athletic diversity commitee, and continue working with women's basketball, as well as teaching physical education classes.
Further, Chuks will work with the Eph Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), the Ephventure program (first year student orientation) as well other duties as assigned by the Chair, Director of Athletics and Assistant Professor in Physical Education.
Chuks came to Williamstown from Merrimack College, where she spent the 2009-2010 academic year as an assistant coach for the women's basketball team as well as a compliance assistant in the athletics department.
Chuks served as a membership and marketing graduate assistant at the University of New Haven from 2007 to 2009 before heading to Merrimack. In the spring of 2009, she earned a Master's in business administration with a concentration in the management of sport industries at New Haven.
From 2006 to 2007 Chuks was an intern with the Programming Department at ESPN, where she was responsible for organizing college basketball statistics and implementing programs to identify top high school athletes.
In her playing days, Chuks earned a full athletic scholarship to play basketball at the University of Hartford. In 2006, she earned her undergraduate degree from the Hartford in psychology.
In addition to being a member of the UNH Sport Management Club, the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC), and Manute Bol's Athletic Reading Club, Chuks had been the Women's Program Director for Hoops for Hope in Lawrence, Massachusetts from 1998 to 2006.
