Vision

Cecil College Athletics is committed to providing learning opportunities to help students formulate and achieve their goals. In order to support and sustain academic success, personal fulfillment, and greater academic achievement for its students, the College emphasizes educating the whole person to develop the intellectual, social and leadership qualities in each student. The primary goal for the intercollegiate athletics at Cecil College is to support the vision and mission of the College by providing students with opportunities that will lead to their academic success and personal development, as well as fostering self-fulfillment through athletics.

Mission

The Athletic Department’s staff and coaches are dedicated to helping student-athletes reach these goals. It is important for our student-athletes to receive a college degree and/or transfer to a four-year college or university, but it is of equal importance that our students leave Cecil Community College with a competitive education, an appreciation for lifelong learning, and the knowledge and skills that will carry them successfully through life.

“Academic Excellence” and “ Student Success” for Student-Athletes” is a place where...
- Student-athletes (i.e., learners) are engaged in their own learning process.
-Student-athletes, faculty and staff partnerships are formed.
-Student-athletes take responsibility for learning.
-Ideas are freely exchanged.
-Innovation is celebrated.
-Continuous improvement is encouraged.
-Resources are maximized.
-Diversity is embraced.
-Building a sense of community is valued.

The Athletic Department acquires its direction through adherence to the College’s vision and mission statements to develop an operational plan through the direction of the College’s strategic plan to achieve “Academic Excellence” and “Student Success.’
To achieve “Academic Excellence” and “ Student Success”, the Athletic Department will:
- Make academic excellence its central focus;
-Make student-athletes active partners in their academic progress;
-Assume final responsibility for retaining student-athletes;
-Focus on academic and athletic achievements to assess student learning and success;
-Create a holistic environment that supports optimal student learning and leadership;
-Provide a safe and diverse environment to ensure that every student-athlete is an ambassador of the college community; and evaluate all areas of the College by the ways they foster student learning.