It’s a brisk Thursday morning in Boone as Katie Mallow works in her office at the Holmes Convocation Center, the same place she played for four years as a member of the Appalachian State University women’s basketball team.
She combs through emails and is busy planning the team’s upcoming trip to Georgia. This is just one of the many tasks that fall under the job description of her new occupation: graduate assistant.
A graduate assistant is not a position known by many outside the college basketball community. She does not get a lot of publicity. There weren’t articles written about the promotion in the local papers.