RECREATION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
email: rlc@ucsd.edu | facebook: @ucsdrlc
The Recreation Leadership Council (RLC) provides guidance within the Recreation department to enhance the experience of the broader campus and promote lifelong well-being, growth and success. The RLC fosters unity among all the Recreation program areas, which include: Aquatics, Business Office, FitLife, Intramurals, Operations (Sales and Weight Rooms), Outback, Rec Classes, and Sports Clubs. The RLC is to serve as a voice to ensure each division can advocate ideas and concerns pertaining to their division as well as the broader department of Recreation.
Chantal Rabay - Executive Chair
REC Service Years: 2
Favorite REC Activity: UCSD’s Ultimate Frisbee Team and Outback Adventure’s Trips!
What do you do in your spare time?: In my spare time I love going camping, backpacking, rock climbing, and any other outdoor activity you can think of! I play a lot of ultimate frisbee in my spare time as well. I love to read and spend time with my friends and my dog!
Which REC value do you identify with most?: The Recreation value that I most identify with is inclusion. Inclusivity is one of my top priorities, especially when guiding trips and I make an effort to spread this value to others and continue to educate myself on what inclusivity means and looks like in different contexts.
Eszter Heins - Executive Vice Chair
REC Service Years: 3 quarters
Favorite REC Activity: Canyonview
What do you do in your spare time?: Yoga, swimming, watching fail compilations on youtube
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Inclusion: I think holding space in which everyone is welcome and appreciated and wanted is the most integral path to authenticity and happiness.
Alexandra Macaraeg – Executive Assistant
REC Service Years: 1
Favorite REC Activity: Open gym basketball!
What do you do in your spare time?: In my spare time, I love to play basketball, show off my lightning mcqueen crocs, play piano and ukulele!
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I identify with community the most because I love all the awesome people I got to meet through my job as a weightroom attendant, as well as through playing open gym and intramural basketball. Shoutout to the weightroom staff whoo hoo! UCSD Recreation helped me find a welcoming and fun community that I know I can always turn to when I’m feeling stressed about school! I can’t always count on my GPA to make me happy, but I can surely count on Main Gym and RIMAC! Becoming a weightroom attendant was my first job ever, as well as one of the first extra curriculars I’ve involved myself with on campus. I’ll always be grateful for getting the opportunity to work for Recreation as it has truly given me the chance to grow as a person, it has given me a space to hang out with/ workout with familiar faces as well as new ones, and simply gain a sense of belonging on this large campus!
Joshua Weimer - Aquatics
REC Service Years: 1
Favorite REC Activity: Club Triathlon
What do you do in your spare time?: Chess, cycling, Rubik’s cubes
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Leadership. I think Rec gives students a lot of leadership opportunities which allow them to take in new responsibility. This makes students more involved in their own Rec experience, and allows them to shape their own experience with Rec.
Sarah Baltazar – Business Office
REC Service Years: 1
Favorite REC Activity: I love running on the treadmill in the lower level of RIMAC.
What do you do in your spare time?: In my spare time I like to workout, listen to podcasts, and try new food recipes.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Service. There is something about giving my time and support to my community that brings me so much happiness. Growing up, my family stressed the importance of lending a hand whenever you have the opportunity to. Being resourceful and helpful never hurt anybody!
David Lopez – Event Operations
REC Service Years: 2
Favorite REC Activity: I enjoy going to Main Gym, to use the boxing room and the matt room.
What do you do in your spare time?: In my spare time, I really enjoy training jiu jitsu.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I identify the most with the value of Integrity. I believe that being honest and having moral principles is the ideal trait to have in a position and job that I have. I have always emphasized the importance of integrity
Omar Ceron-Santiago - Facility Supervisor
REC Service Years: 1.5
Favorite REC Activity: My favorite activity is using our awesome weight rooms to keep myself in shape every morning to begin a productive day.
What do you do in your spare time?: I like to do some creative writing from time to time, hangout with my friends, play video games, and enjoy intellectual conversations.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: The Rec values I most identify myself with are integrity and leadership. Overall having integrity has been a value I have always wanted to live up to and hold dearly. Integrity at UC San Diego Recreation demonstrates that our community cares for the well being of our members and shows that we live up to what we want to build for our community. Leadership is a crucial value I identify myself with in this community seeing that the communication, leadership, and management skills I have developed here can be transcribed to my career pathway.
Siobhan Ang – FitLife
REC Service Years: 1.5
Favorite REC Activity: Fitness and Yoga classes
What do you do in your spare time?: I enjoy reading, painting, and going for walks
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I identify most with community and inclusion because I think they go hand in hand. RLC has an important job in fostering a strong community between the different Rec departments and the campus at large and the only way to successfully do that is by creating a space that includes everyone.
Trevor Rawdon – Competitive Sports
REC Service Years: 2
Favorite REC Activity: Intramural volleyball
What do you do in your spare time?: Play basketball or other sports and paint/draw
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Service
Molly Ryan – Outback Adventures
REC Service Years: 1
Favorite REC Activity: I love guiding with Outback and rock climbing at the OCC!
What do you do in your spare time?: In my spare time, I like to go to the beach, run, and have fun with friends.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I most identify with the Rec value of fun! I love encouraging friends and other students to have adventures and learn new things.
Amanda Jade Sabado – Weight Rooms
REC Service Years: 2
Favorite REC Activity: I eat, breathe and sleep [in] the weight room. Kidding, but I do thoroughly enjoy working out with members of the community in the weight room.
What do you do in your spare time?: In my spare time, I like to cook with my friends or call family at home! I am from Northern California so being present at home even though I am in San Diego is a huge priority for me.
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I most identify with inclusion/community, because the weight rooms especially have always been a very comforting and familiar community for me. My department as well as the other related departments have always made me feel so included and welcomed into Recreation, and I am entirely grateful for finding my place here. As a lead in the weight rooms and a delegate for RLC, I want to bring even more inclusion for the entire student body, because I know how much it positively impacted me.
Peter Emanuel - Alumni
REC Department Position: Aquatics
REC Service Years: 2.5
Favorite REC Activity: Intramural innertube water polo! Every year the aquatics staff makes a team and plays. This is my 3rd year participating, and it's easily my favorite part of Rec.
What do you do in your spare time?: I also teach for the Division of Biological Sciences at UCSD, which eats up a lot of my free time! In what free time I have left over I like to mountain bike and camp!
Which REC value do you identify with most?: I identify most with the value of fun. Working in Rec has provided me with the unique opportunity of having a job that lets me be paid to have fun, and I try make sure that all my coworkers and patrons at the pool are sharing in the fun.
Jason Dillon - Staff Advisor
REC Department Position: Aquatics
REC Service Years: 18
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 innertube water polo. No other sport combines the high octane, adrenaline pumping natural high of a professional sport, with the laziness of siting on a floatie in an indoor pool while you're playing it.
What do you do in your spare time?: Play and take care of my corgi and golden retriever, Loki & Oliver
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 Recreation Leadership Council.
Brandon Hyatt – Staff Advisor
REC Service Years: 2
Favorite REC Activity: Recapalooza
What do you do in your spare time?: Play instruments, build legos, workout
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Leadership. I most identify with this value because leaders make changes, are a voice to be listened to, and are the examples to be followed. A true leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Bobby Jaffe – Staff Advisor
REC Service Years: 1.5
Favorite REC Activity: The development of staff
What do you do in your spare time?: Avid sports fan and huge movie guy!
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Leadership
Chris Griebenow – Staff Advisor
REC Service Years: 4
Favorite REC Activity: Archery Tag
What do you do in your spare time?: Homebrew, Video Games, Volleyball
Which REC value do you identify with most?: Fun - Recreation is the Fun Department and everything we do should be providing joy.
