Michelle Jorwic, '08, advises a student. Ms. Jorwic has been selected for a prestigious NCAA internship.

Michelle Jorwic, Director of Community Service and Leadership Development at Carthage, has been selected for a prestigious NCAA National Office Internship in the association’s Educational Affairs Division.

The NCAA offers one-year internships at its national office in Indianapolis to college graduates from four-year NCAA member institutions who express an interest in pursuing a career in the administration of intercollegiate athletics.

Ms. Jorwic graduated from Carthage in 2008 as a communication major and four-year soccer student athlete. After her graduation, she received an NCAA Division III Ethnic and Women’s Internship Grant to stay at Carthage as the College’s Associate Director of Student Athlete Services.

She is now a first-year advisor and the director of Johnson Hall, in addition to Director of Community Service and Leadership Development. Her responsibilities include advising several service learning organizations, and conducting the Flame Leadership program and SEAL Award program.

She will graduate with a Master’s degree in Education from Carthage in May.

Carthage is the only Division III school in the country to have two former student athletes earn these positions and work at the NCAA National Office. Graduate Jaime Fluker joined the NCAA in 2005 as an NCAA National Office Intern, and is now the NCAA’s Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Development.

Ms. Jorwic will begin her NCAA duties on June 1. As a National Office Intern in the Educational Affairs Division, she will serve youth, pre-college student-athletes, collegiate student-athletes, and athletics and university administrators through programming and educational opportunities.