Miriam Segar, Lady Tiger alum and SWA makes Baton Rouge Business Report's "40 Under 40"

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 for the Baton Rouge Business Report highlighting 40 top leaders under the age of 40.  This feature is on our own Miriam (Farr) Segar!

The following is written by Steve Sanoski

 What is your best business advice?

“Hard work in anything you do is the key. Set goals and work towards them. Always be true to your values and respect others. People are the key to any successful organization.”

As a three-time captain and standout point guard for the LSU women’s basketball team in the early 1990s, Miriam Segar says she learned about endurance and clock management.

As the senior associate director of athletics at her alma mater, the wife and mother of four says she needs those skills more than ever.

“My biggest challenge, definitely, is finding a balance between my job and my family,” says Segar, a Sulphur native. “One of the biggest misconceptions people have about my job is that it’s all about fun. It is fun: The access is amazing, and I absolutely love my job, but it’s a lot of work, too, and it requires a lot of time and energy.”

On any given day, Segar can be found working with LSU administrators, coaches, athletes—and sometimes the parents of athletes—to maintain the success of the 17 men’s and women’s teams she helps oversee.

Her favorite part of the job, she says, is working with the student-athletes.

“I feel very privileged to be able to give back to our student-athletes and play a role in their lives,” she says. “These kids are going to be the role models and leaders of tomorrow. I love the fact that we get to invest in them.”

Segar graduated from LSU in 1994 as a four-year letterwinner, four-time All-Southeastern Conference academic award winner and the recipient of the 1994 NCAA postgraduate scholarship. She spent one year as an intern in the SEC’s Birmingham, Ala., headquarters before returning to LSU in 1995, where she has risen through the ranks of the athletic department.

She recently was promoted to senior associate athletic director, making her the highest-ranking female in the administration and the only one with oversight of the university’s high-profile sports teams. She says many women find it too difficult to juggle the demands of the job with those of being a wife and mother.“There is a great need for more women in athletics administration,” she says.

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Posted by Bob Starkey