Men's Club Basketball Program — Founder & President

What This Was#

Western Colorado University had no men's club basketball program. I founded the first one — not as an event, but as an institution: something with operations, continuity, and a life beyond its founder.

What Building It Required#

• Founding — navigating university approval, club charters, insurance, and facility access to bring the program into legal and operational existence.
• Recruiting — building a roster from nothing: finding players, setting expectations, and creating a culture worth joining.
• Operations — practice schedules, game logistics, travel coordination, and the unglamorous administration that determines whether an organization functions.
• Budgeting — securing and allocating funds, pricing participation, and keeping the program solvent.
• Continuity — the real test: structuring leadership, documentation, and succession so the program continued after I graduated. It did.

Why It Matters#

Most ventures die with their founder's attention. Designing for continuity — building the systems, culture, and succession that let an organization persist — is the same discipline that separates durable institutions from personal projects. This was my first end-to-end exercise in it.