Sports Illustrated: Former Tennessee AD Hamilton finds second career in Africa
Last October Blood:Water announced our excitement on having brought on Mike Hamilton to serve as President of U.S. Operations. For many in the college sports world, this came as quite a surprise. Sports Illustrated's Zac Ellis recently sat down with Mike to talk about what brought him to make such a life-shift.
Mike Hamilton can still remember the question. It was 2008, and Hamilton, then the athletic director at Tennessee, was stumped when his wife, Beth, offered a hypothetical situation one night during dinner: If he had all the money in the world, what would he do with it? The soft-spoken man best known for his newsworthy tenure as head of Tennessee's athletic department thought for a moment before offering an answer that came from the heart. "I told Beth that I enjoyed what I was doing," said Hamilton, "but I really wanted to go into a deeper relationship with helping solve the orphan crisis in the world."Today, after 25 years in college athletics that included stops at Clemson and Wake Forest, Hamilton's newest venture is a testament to his personal goal. Last October -- four months after his sudden resignation as UT's athletic director -- Hamilton put collegiate athletics behind him and became the president of U.S. Operations for Blood:Water Mission, a non-profit organization based in Nashville that addresses Africa's clean water and HIV/AIDs crises, two of the leading causes of orphanage in sub-Saharan Africa.A new path emerged for Hamilton after the embattled AD resigned his post at Tennessee last June... Story continued at sportsillustrated.com
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