{"id":4785,"date":"2017-02-12T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2017-03-27T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:38:19","slug":"all-star-bryan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/all-star-bryan-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star: Bryan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"20170227_Cardinals_Gameday_Magazine_EDITED_9248\"<\/a>Major: Rawlings Sports Business Management
\nGraduation Year: May 2017
\nGPA: 3.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Volunteering time as the president of the Rawlings Sport Business Management Council at 91制片厂, spending 20 hours a week as a marketing intern and continuing to carry a 3.5 GPA through his senior year should be enough for any student to be considered an All-Star.<\/p>\n

But Bryan Williams, who will graduate in May 2017 with a BS in Rawlings Sport Business Management, further enhanced his All-Star status when he joined the U.S. Army in January 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do my part in protecting the freedoms that we Americans enjoy every day,\u201d Williams says. \u201cWith my family background in the military and my dad serving for 27 years, it just made all the sense in the world to serve and give back if I had the capability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams took on the responsibility of the U.S. Army while enrolled as a full-time student and working 20-plus hours a week at an internship. \u201cIt\u2019s been challenging and rewarding,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is all about finding a good balance of time and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams has held career-relevant internships since his freshman year, and those opportunities to gain experience in the workplace before graduation clearly paid off. He already has several job offers.<\/p>\n

Williams interned with the St. Louis Blues in the operations and marketing departments, the University of Northern Iowa athletics department and with Rawlings, a leader in the sports equipment industry and corporate sponsor of the Maryville program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it weren’t for the Rawlings Sports Business Management program, I never could have obtained all the internships I\u2019ve had,\u201d Williams says.<\/p>\n

It was Maryville\u2019s strong partnership with Rawlings\u2014along with the extraordinarily high number of available internships\u2014that first attracted Williams to Maryville.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing to Maryville was a very easy decision to make,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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