Melissa Tallant

Biography

Melissa Tallant is in her 17th year at SASS as an Associate Director and Academic Coordinator for baseball, ice hockey, women's golf, softball and liaison for former student-athletes. All of her sports have shown improvement in team GPAs, with women's golf maintaining the top team GPA for all MSU sports for the past six years at 3.56. She coordinates the George Webster Memorial Scholarship for former student-athletes and has taught KIN 171 Athletics in Higher Education for sixteen years. Tallant designs the Student-Athlete Handbook and Planner and coordinated SASS rebranding in 2015. She manages education abroad programs including partnerships with Australian institutions and Northumbria University in England. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Akron and a master's degree in Athletic Counseling from Springfield College. A Cleveland native, she has previously worked at the University of Illinois, Cleveland State University, Texas State University, and NACDA.