The RoundHouse | 12/2/2020 2:50:00 PM

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Senior associate athletic director Becky Endicott is retiring after a career at Wichita State that started in 1993 as an intern. She helped steer Shocker women's athletics to its successes of the past 20 years and earned a reputation as a wise guide through the NCAA manual and an effective advocate for women's athletics. Endicott discusses her time at Wichita State and how athletics has changed. Her parents nurtured her athletic ability and interests to lead her toward her career.

She reveals that Wichita State fired her and hired her twice before she started work as director of student services in 1994 and that her mentors included Dr. Darlene Bailey at Wichita State and Bonnie Bing before that.

"Bonnie was my junior high PE teacher," Endicott said. "She was a great mentor when I was in junior high and continued to do some mentoring for me when I went onto high school."

Endicott talks about her best Grier Jones story, rooting for the Chiefs and advice for young people considering a career in athletics. She reminisces about Shocker volleyball playing in the Heskett Center and then drawing large crowds in Koch Arena just a few years later. 

"The hardest thing we do in athletic administration is hire good people," she said. "The second hardest thing we do is try to keep those people here. We've had a lot of success in being able to keep people here and keep good coaches here."