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A Love of Sports and of Leading the Way

by Lois Elfman , October 2, 2008

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Kelly Mehrtens and students

Not everyone agreed. In an article in StarNewsOnline. com on July 3, 2007, sports columnist Neil Amato wrote, “One UNCW fan, residing in the anonymity of a message board, wrote that Wilmington wasn’t ready for a Black female AD. Another wrote that Mehrtens automatically had two strikes against her.

“Those folks hadn’t seen Mehrtens at her news conference Monday. They didn’t hear the ovation she received, 24 seconds long, when DePaolo introduced her. They made assumptions about Mehrtens, just because she beat out two accomplished, White-male finalists.

“Kelly Mehrtens is not the Black woman who happened upon the AD job at UNCW. She is the AD because of who she is. A vibrant, competitive leader.”

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