First Horizon League school, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, partners with Career Athletes
Kansas City based company provides career and networking opportunities to student-athletes

April 26, 2011 -  The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Athletic Department and Career Athletes have recently agreed to a partnership providing student-athletes a truly unique resource for career development and professional networking. 

"We are pleased to be the first school in the Horizon League to start a relationship with Career Athletes," said Director of Athletics Rick Castello.

"The program will allow us to provide greater education opportunities for our student-athletes and open up doors to internships, jobs and grad school possibilities. Our student-athletes consistently perform at a high level in the classroom and this will provide yet another avenue for them to succeed in school and beyond."

Over the past 12 years, Career Athletes has conducted over 900 training and development seminars at universities throughout the country providing much needed career education for over 260,000 student-athletes. In addition to their proprietary training and development seminars, Career Athletes builds and maintains customized career networking web sites for individual university athletic departments providing additional career education, mentors, access to career opportunities and potential employers upon graduation, and a platform to connect with athletic alumni who are encouraged to join the network as mentors and/or job seekers.

"It's obvious that the administration at Milwaukee cares about its student-athletes beyond their playing days and graduation, and we are excited to be partnered with such an outstanding institution," said Chris Smith CEO and President of Career Athletes. "Due to the demanding nature of collegiate athletics, these athletes face a unique set of challenges regarding career development not typically experienced by the general student-body. The current economic environment will provide even greater challenges for today's student-athletes to overcome, making career development more important than ever."

Milwaukee is no stranger to success as indicated by additional academic and athletic achievements:
• Five student-athletes were named to the Academic All-American team in the last five years.
• The past year, the student-athlete cumulative GPA is 3.162
• 163 student-athletes achieved a 3.0 or higher GPA.
• 103 student-athletes were named to the Horizon League Honor Roll in Fall 2010.
• 89 Horizon League titles since 1997.
• 30 NCAA Tournaments since 1997.
• Milwaukee was awarded the Horizon League Women's All-Sports Award in 2010.
• Men's Baseball was 2010 League Champions.