New, Annabelle Grace2024-12-192024-12-192024-12-19https://hdl.handle.net/10919/123846Virginia Tech Athletics developed a leadership Program, Next-Level Leadership (NLL)- to help aid student-athletes and grow their leadership skills. The vision of the program is for the participants to be able to lead themselves, lead their team, and to leave their legacy. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to understands the operations of program and make recommendations for further improvement. To do this I evaluated the program from the perspective of both the instructor and the participants to find more success in the program and for the betterment of the student-athletes participating. This study included a semi-structured interview of the administrator of the program and analyzed program evaluations from 2022-2024. Both the collection of data and analysis provided themes of positive comments about the community from both the participants in the questionnaires and the head facilitator when she stated it as one of the goals of the program. The student-athlete participants left suggestions in the questions from what they liked and wanted more of to what changes they would like made. The interview revealed the head facilitator’s take on the program, she explained what goes into the program, how she evaluates them, and how she perceived the effectiveness of both the inputs and her leadership into the program. Both the participants and the facilitator expressed their enjoyment of the program as well as some suggestions with the hope to improve the program for the participants and their leadership development.application/pdfenCC0 1.0 UniversalMaster's project