Skidmore College Athletics

For more than twenty years, Sharon Shearman has been the operational backbone - and the heart and soul -of Skidmore Athletics. With extraordinary skill and dedication, she has developed and overseen the administrative structure that keeps the department running, championed the athletics program and its coaches and staff, and cheered on generations of student-athletes. A College employee since 1988, she was hired in 1991 to help inaugural Director of Athletics Tim Brown manage a loose collection of student clubs and fledgling varsity teams. As administrative assistant to Brown and subsequent directors Jeffrey Segrave and Gail Cummings-Danson, she became the steady hand running the day-to-day operations of the Athletics Department as it grew into the home of nationally ranked teams. But that's just her day job. Whether hosting Liberty League tournaments, supporting the Thoroughbreds at National Collegiate Athletic Conference events, or staying after hours to watch student-athletes compete, Sherman is ever present – and synonymous with Skidmore Athletics.
 
She has done it all, observes Brown, "with dedication and loyalty second to none." Segrave adds, "The organizational foundation upon which Skidmore Athletics rests is in no small measure due to Sharon's competence, diligence, industriousness, and care - the result of a lifetime's professional commitment to the program, the coaches and staff who deliver it, and the student-athletes who thrive in it." Current director Cummings-Danson concludes, "Simply put, the Athletic Department would not be the success it is today without Sharon as part of the team.