Spotlight on Ohlone
Warden new athletic director
By Richard Killeen, Staff writer.
Monday, August 27, 2007 — Monitor.
Chris Warden, new athletic director. — Photo by Tomas Ortega.Chris Warden, former athletic trainer, in June signed on as Ohlone’s new athletic director.
Warden said his number one goal is to take every Ohlone sports program to the state championships. “I would love to see all of our teams go to state, and I will do anything in my power to help that happen,” Warden said.
Because of lack of funds, Warden splits his time between the two titles: “It’s a fifty-fifty position,” Warden said, “so fifty-percent of my time is athletic director 50 percent is Curriculum Committee chair.”
Warden disagrees with the idea of not having a full time Athletic Director.
Warden believes in order to fulfill his goal to take all teams to the state championships the position of Athletic Director, “needs to be 100 percent.”
“For goal number 1 to be obtained goal number 2 has to happen” Warden said.
Warden is also committed to bringing new sports programs to Ohlone: “I want to help build new sports on this campus, I am working with tennis to get new tennis teams for both men and woman, I am going to be working with golf to get both men and woman golf here. I want to build our intercollegiate offerings,” said Warden.
As Athletic Director/Curriculum Committee Chair, Warden is up for the responsibilities that come with the position.
Pulling out a piece of paper from his desk, Warden listed a fraction of the responsibilities of his dual title: he works with the Athletics Counselor to develop learning communities, oversees all fundraising activities in athletics, develops and oversees enterprise revenue from athletic activities like baseball and swimming academies and oversees all athletic events and maintenance.
Although Warden is new to the position and faces many new challenging tasks, he is not an unfamiliar face around campus.
Warden spent from 2001 until 2007 as Ohlone’s athletic trainer.
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