Friday, August 15, 2008

Norfolk State alumna becomes agent for Olympic athletes

This is where it all started. That single thought played in Kimberly N. Holland's mind as she sat in the Southwest DeKalb High School (Atlanta)gymnasium, watching Angelo Taylor and Terrence Trammell. The athletes, bound for the Summer Olympics, had returned to their alma mater for a pep rally staged on their behalf.

As the band played, the cheerleaders cheered and Taylor and Trammell gave speeches, Holland couldn't help but remember her own start as a sports agent, a field still dominated by men. It's not the profession she envisioned for herself. She wanted to be an attorney, to fight for social change and justice, to give voice to those who had none. After high school, she hit the track running, so to speak. She graduated from Norfolk State University, worked for Sen. Edward Kennedy, then moved to Atlanta.



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She spent two years here at LaFace Records before returning to Virginia, where she enrolled at a Christian school, the Regent University School of Law.

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Representing Track and Field Olympians Walter Dix, Angelo Taylor, Terrence Trammell, Shawn Crawford, LaShawn Merrit, Bernard Williams, Tyree Washington and Bolota Asmerom, the young sister Holland is headed for sports management super stardom. It's absolutely great that she has broken into the sports management field with superior capability to represent our top athletes in their contract negotiations, branding and product endorsement deals.

Ms. Holland, a native Washingtonian, appears to have exceptional skills --entrepreneurial, solid communicator and negotiator, experienced deal maker, christian foundation, connected and committed to our best interests. Way to go Spartans! Another glass ceiling broken. Behold the Green and Gold...

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Norfolk State University Spartan "Legion" Marching Band

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