Coaches Corner

Kyle Hood may not look like your typical college athletics coach, but the 22-year-old is GCSU’s cheerleading coach.
Hood spent three years cheerleadering while a student at GCSU before graduating in 2006. Hood was then offered the coaching job.
“We’ve always tried to keep somebody from the program (as the coach) because it is such a time -consuming job,” Hood said. “It’s not something you can just pick somebody off the street to do it, so you have to have somebody that knows the team, knows the people and knows the skills.”
Hood started cheerleading his sophomore year of college.
“I played football, I wrestled and I played soccer for my high school. We don’t have any of that here,” Hood said. “So, as a freshman I was sort of bored, and I had classes with some of the girl cheerleaders, so I started going to some of the practices and just hanging out and even practiced some but I wasn’t on the team officially until my sophomore year.”
Hood stays busy. When he is not coaching, he takes graduate classes, works as a graduate assistant in the Sports Information Department, and supervises the Wellness Depot.
Hood is pursuing a master’s in Public Administration as a basis for a career in politics.
“Long-term, my career goal is to be congressman,” Hood said. “Everybody in politics has something, like the job before they get into government, like Governor Purdue was a veterinarian. So right now I want to keep my job at (GCSU) in an athletics administer position, and get into local politics.”

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Mar 2 2007. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry