Just two weeks into his assignment as the newly appointed vice president for enrollment management, Mark Reddy ’95/’18 M.O.L. sat down with Olivet The Magazine’s George Wolff ’93 to chat about his work at the University.
Mark, thanks for doing this with us today. The interview is a feature of Olivet The Magazine and our readers have come to really enjoy it. The first one was with Dr. Gregg Chenoweth, and you are now the second installment of the interview. So share with us a little bit about your story. You’re an Olivet alumnus. Tell us a little bit about that. I grew up in the Nazarene Church, and one of the most important things to me was athletics — playing football — and Olivet had a football team. I had some family that were alumni, and it just seemed like a great fit. So I came with the idea of being a football player, and everything else that Olivet offered me just enhanced the experience. I met my wife here; some of my best friends to this day are people that I met when I was a student. I just had an amazing experience. I was a history education major, and I did the typical football player thing: Go to school to be a coach and teach history. And I did that for a number of years. I was having a lot of success with that experience, and my path started to change a little bit. I found myself as a head football coach and a dean of students at a school in Indiana. At that time, the head football coach at Olivet, Brian Fish, called me and said, “Hey, would you think about coming back and coaching?” 18 OLIVET.EDU
