RECREATION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
email: rlc@ucsd.edu
The Recreation Leadership Council (RLC) provides guidance within the Recreation department to enhance the experience of the broader campus and student employees while promoting lifelong well-being, growth and success. The RLC fosters unity among all the Recreation program areas, which include: Aquatics, Business Office, FitLife, Competitive Sports, Engagement, Esports, Events, Maintenance, Marketing, Recreation Experience, Outback Adventures, and Rec Classes. The RLC is to serve as a voice to ensure each program area can advocate ideas and concerns pertaining to their area as well as the broader department of Recreation.
Bo Oliver- Executive Chair
REC Department Position: Competitive Sports
REC Service Years: 2+ years
Favorite REC Activity: Intramural Sports
What do you do in your spare time?: I do the New York Times mini almost everyday, I'm currently teaching myself how to DJ, and I'm on the Club Basketball team at UC San Diego.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Community is the reason I've stuck with Rec for as long as I have. I have made so many connections through this job that I will be forever grateful for, and to create a community like my own for others is incredibly rewarding.
Dylan Mullaney - Executive Vice Chair
REC Department Position: Outback Adventures, REC Experience
REC Service Years: 2 years
Favorite REC Activity: I really enjoy playing on the club ultimate frisbee team and guiding backpacking trips in the Sierras.
What do you do in your spare time?: I love to scrapbook, swim in the ocean, and find new places to eat ice cream.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Rec has created spaces where I have found a strong sense of community and invaluable friendships. I have grown and learned so much through this job and I want to continue to create opportunities for others to build their communities within Rec.
Rebecca Clague – Executive Assistant Chair
REC Department Position: Facility Supervisor
REC Service Years: 1.5 years
Favorite REC Activity: Trivia nights!
What do you do in your spare time?: I love traveling to new places and cooking, but most of my free time is spent at one of my various jobs or sleeping.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Community. I think that it’s so important to have a community of people who genuinely care about you and act as your support system, and I think that a community can look like many different things. It may be your family, your friends, or the people you work with, and I have been lucky enough to find that community within Recreation.
Lowry Flieder - Events Delegate
REC Service Years: 2+ years
Favorite REC Activity: Working soccer games!
What do you do in your spare time?: Read fantasy and mystery books.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Inclusion because recreation is such a fundamental part of life and well-being, and by pushing to include everyone of diverse backgrounds and thoughts, the experience of recreation is constantly improving and becoming more and more fun and exciting.
Dylan Shafer – Aquatics Delegate
REC Service Years: 3.5 years
Favorite REC Activity: Sports Clubs - Club Swim
What do you do in your spare time?: If I am not working, I am probably still at the pool helping run UC San Diego Club Swim as President. Away from the pool, I can be found camping, cooking, or working on research with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Community. I have met some of my best friends and made years of great memories by working/competing for REC.
Marlo Ramada – Aquatics Maintenance Delegate
REC Service Years: 1 year
Favorite REC Activity: Ultimate Frisbee
What do you do in your spare time?: Ultimate Frisbee, making music, video games.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Community - Working at Canyonview and being on the ultimate team has given me the space to be authentically myself, as well as knowing I have an open and understanding support system. And friends!
Kate Seely - Engagement Delegate
REC Service Years: 2+ years
Favorite REC Activity: I love the variety of classes Recreation offers, and regularly go to yoga with the instructor Jane.
What do you do in your spare time?: When I have free time I like to work on creative projects -- scrapbooking, drawing, videomaking -- or learn about other languages and cultures.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: The Recreation department is where I've felt most at home at UCSD so I'd have to say community is what I identify most with. The work environment here is great and many of my friends were originally my coworkers before I knew them.
Anne Collora – FitLife Delegate
REC Service Years: 1 year
Favorite REC Activity: Fitness/Yoga Classes
What do you do in your spare time?: Consume all different types of media and art!
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Fun! It’s important to remember among many important values, and responsibilities the world wouldn’t run without time for rest and fun.
Xiaohan Li – Outback Delegate
REC Service Years: 1 year
Favorite REC Activity: Guiding trips and climbing at the OCC.
What do you do in your spare time?: I enjoy cooking, sampling new teas, reading, drawing, crocheting and hanging out with friends.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I most identify with the Rec value of community. I have made so many wonderful friends through working at Outback--both guides and participants--and they are my home away from home.
Pedro Grimaldo Jr. – Events Operations Delegate
REC Service Years: 1.5 years
Favorite REC Activity: Trivia nights at Dirty Birds.
What do you do in your spare time?: I do photography and hang out with my friends.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Community because I feel like everyone I work with is like my second family from how close we are.
Brendan Mair – Competitive Sports Delegate
REC Service Years: 2 years
Favorite REC Activity: Intramural sports and Rimac gym.
What do you do in your spare time?: I go to the beach, losing money in prize picks, working out, and playing video games with friends from home.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: FUN
Jason Dillon - RLC Exec Team Pro Staff Advisor
REC Department Position: Aquatics
REC Service Years: 22 years
Favorite REC Activity: I love so many of the activities in Recreation, but the one that always leaves me beaming from ear to ear is inner-tube water polo. No other sport combines the high octane, adrenaline pumping natural high of a professional sport, with the laziness of sitting on a floaty in an indoor pool while competing.
What do you do in your spare time?: Read, lift, swim, surf and spend quality time with my family.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Community - When I was an undergrad student, UCSD Recreation was a huge part of my community and what made me enjoy my time here as much as I did. Now as a professional staff I look to continue that inclusive community that made me feel so welcome in my program area and through the amazing work of the RLC.
Bobby Jaffe – Pro Staff Advisor
REC Department Position: Rec Experience
REC Service Years: 5 years
Favorite REC Activity: My favorite activity in Rec has always been Open Rec. The program serves a huge number of patrons, students, and staff that have varying interest in basketball, volleyball, badminton, soccer, and other field sports. For me when I think of recreational activity, I think of a pick up basketball game and having the opportunity to participate in the activity with people that share an interest and that builds community and friendships that can last a lifetime.
What do you do in your spare time?: Hang out with my son and wife. Love watching Marvel, Star Wars, and Pop Culture shows.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I most identify with integrity. How do you hold yourself accountable (in all aspects of life) when nobody is watching? It says a lot about what guides you and who you are as an individual, friend, partner, employee, etc.
Dominic Ackerman – Pro Staff Advisor
REC Department Position: Competitive Sports
REC Service Years: 4 years
Favorite REC Activity: Yoga
What do you do in your spare time?: I play golf, and spend a lot of time walking/hiking with my dog (Chico).
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Leadership - I love giving back to the students and creating experiences that develop learning opportunities.
Marc Beasley – Pro Staff Advisor
REC Department Position: Events
REC Service Years: 11 years
Favorite REC Activity: Working with our student employees on providing memorable events to enhance the student life on the campus.
What do you do in your spare time?: Working in the events world spare time is valued and I remember to reconnect with my family and friends.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I couldn't identify with just one of our values since I believe they should be and are how I approach my role within UC Recreation in representing my program area, supervising my team and mentoring them. I would emphasize the "FUN" a little heavier than the others. Because as Groucho Marx said "IF you are not having fun you are doing something wrong."
