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Biography[edit source]

Rhonda Mapp is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree major in communications. Rhonda Mapp became one of the most prolific scorers in the ACC. By the end of her senior year, Rhonda led the ACC in scoring avg 22 points per game and became a Kodak and Street & Smith All American. After being drafted in the first round by the Charlotte Sting in the WNBA's Elite Draft (the third pick overall), Rhonda picked up in the pros where she left off in college. In just two seasons, the 6'3 starting forward for the Charlotte Sting became a valuable contributor to the team by averaging over 11 points and 5 rebounds per game. In 1998, despite a foot injury, Rhonda came back to average 15 points in her next four games. Prior to playing with the Sting. Rhonda spent six seasons aboard averaging 18.1 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. Rhonda won her first WNBA Championship in 2000 with the LA Sparks. Rhonda has been an indispensable part of the Sting's growth into a Championship contender that has reached the WNBA Semifinals in 97' and 98'. However, she has also been invaluable source of support and advocacy for numerous charitable organizations and causes in the Charlotte community and surrounding areas. Her longtime and active participation, commitment to the community and youth involvement has been the impetus for Rhonda's formation of Follow Your Dreams Inc. Since the formation of FYD, Rhonda has made countless appearances and commandeered many supporters and volunteers for the various programs and activities. Her commitment to young people is commendable and exemplifies the qualities we strive so hard to instill in young people.

Expanded description[edit source]

Rhonda Mapp was hired as the coach at Queen’s Grant High School in Matthews, North Carolina. Queen’s Grant is a charter school for students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County area and has an enrollment of about 500. Mapp led Asheville to a state-championship in 1987 and has her jersey (No. 51) retired at the school. She still holds the school record for rebounds in a season (514) and career (1,032).

College Career

A dominant low-post player, Rhonda Mapp was named to the first-team All-ACC squad in 1991 and 1992. Mapp helped lead the Wolfpack to a three-year record of 67-25 as well as NCAA Tournament appearances in 1989 and 1991. In 1991, she helped lead the Wolfpack to win the ACC Championship and was named to the first-team All-tournament team and shot 57.6 percent for the season State finished with a No. 7 final national ranking by the Associated Press and 10th by USA Today. In her final season in 1992, Mapp led the ACC in scoring (22.0) and rebounding (9.8) and finished her collegiate career with 1,553 points, which still ranks 10th on the Wolfpack career scoring list. She also ranks 5th at NC State in career scoring average (17.6), 9th in career field goals made (625), 4th in career field goal percentage (.578), 9th in rebounds (810) and 6th in career double-doubles (37). Played five seasons professionally in the WNBA with the Charlotte Sting (1997-99) and Los Angeles Sparks (2001, 2003)

Follow Your Dreams Inc.

This non-profit organization is dedicated to helping young people realize their dreams while simultaneously teaching them to become responsible, well-rounded and successful adults. Follow Your Dreams strives to increase opportunities for young people, particularly girls, in its commitment to the following: 1. Promoting self-esteem by providing sports programs and life skills workshops that encourage self-confidence, the mastery of special skills and self-awareness. 2. Promoting self-determination by providing career awareness camps that encourage discipline, perseverance and tenacity. 3. Promoting self-growth by providing motivational speaking, cultural exposure and health and education seminars that encourage self-care and positive self-perception. FYD offers a comprehensive networking of programs that work together to address its goals and overall mission as well as to instill in young people qualities such as teamwork, dedication, commitment, persistence, leadership, work ethic and honesty. Our programs include the following: 1. Scholarship Awards; 2. Mentoring Programs; 3. Sports Camps and 5 star workouts 4. Career Development and Awareness Programs; 5. Health Education and Awareness Programs; 6. Education Seminars 7. Etiquette Classes; 8. Awards Banquets; and Workshops Relating to Goal Setting; 9. Conflict Resolutions FYD’s commitment to positively influence the lives and attitudes of young people and their community is real and sincere. FYD takes pride in improving the physical emotional and psychological well being of our young people and is proud to encourage and teach each of them to “follow their dreams.”

Awards[edit source]

First-team All-ACC 1991 and 1992

Kodak and Street & Smith All American

2000 WNBA Champion (LA Sparks)

Bibliography[edit source]

"ACC Announces the 2012 Women's Basketball Tournament Legends | - ACC News." Atlantic Coast Conference. N.p., 02 Feb. 2012. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.

"High School Huddle." RSS 20. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.

"Rhonda Mapp Background." LinkedIn. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.

Statement, Mission. "Lady Diamonds Basketball." SPONSORSHIP PACKET (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.

References[edit source]

1. "Rhonda Mapp Background." LinkedIn. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.
2. "High School Huddle." RSS 20. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.
3. "ACC Announces the 2012 Women's Basketball Tournament Legends | - ACC News." Atlantic Coast Conference. N.p., 02 Feb. 2012. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.
4. Statement, Mission. "Lady Diamonds Basketball." SPONSORSHIP PACKET (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.

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Early life[edit source]

In 1971 Moore graduated with a degree in mathematics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and then worked in bookselling in Boston. In 1978 she graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School, where as one of only a handful of female MBA graduates she received 13 job offers. Moore was an avid magazine reader, and her ambition was to work in magazine publishing; she consequently accepted the lowest-paid job she had been offered, that of financial analyst at Time.

In her early years at Time, Moore gained experience in circulation and marketing. An avid sports fan, her first executive role was as media manager of Sports Illustrated in 1979. Two years later she was appointed assistant circulation director of Fortune before moving on to become the circulation director of Money and then of Discover . Moore returned to Sports Illustrated as general manager in 1984, becoming the magazine's associate publisher four years later.

Moore's ability to take a Time title to new readers was first demonstrated in 1989 when she was appointed founding publisher of Sports Illustrated for Kids . Drawing upon her existing client network, Moore paved the way for the new title by preselling advertising pages. She also established an unusually close working relationship between the magazine's editorial section and its marketing and circulation divisions. The founding editor of Sports Illustrated for Kids John Papanek later praised Moore's business model in which the metaphorical "church" and "state" were integrated in a highly effective manner.

Expanded description[edit source]

Moore joined Time following her MBA. Her leadership potential showed early on in her career and she flew up the corporate ladder through a succession of key positions. In 1991, Moore became publisher, and later president, of People. Here she oversaw the launches of Australian Who weekly, In Style, People en Español, and Real Simple, giving Time a competitive edge in the women’s magazine arena for the first time. Later, as executive vice-president, she ran the business and development operations for consumer magazines includingTime and People, while managing the company’s consumer marketing division. She was nominated CEO in 2002. A major mission then was to take Time into the digital age, a project which has enjoyed increasing success. In 2007, digital traffic growth hit 72 percent; in 2008, despite an economic downturn, revenue for People.com rose 51 percent; and Time, Inc.’s US website has grown to be among the 20 largest online media properties.

In 2002,the 51 year old Moore as a result of the AOL Time Warner merger, the value of her AOL stock reportedly passed the $1 million mark; then in June of that same year, she gained control of both 'People' and 'Time.' But at a November 15 panel convened by the 'Columbia Journalism Review,' Moore got bad reviews all around.

Moore, as president of People, launched the spin-offs InStyle, Teen People, and Real Simple. Seemingly unaware that dozens of news editors had turned out to hear a frank appraisal of the state of journalism today, she praised the hard-hitting work of Teen People and compared the new thumbnail obits in The New York Times to a "mini-People magazine." Alarms went off when she called People "the most successful magazine in the world."

Marriage and children[edit source]

Daughter of Monty Sommovigo and Bea (maiden name unknown); married Donovan Moore (private wealth manager for Bessemer Trust); children: one.

Expansion of People

In 1991 Moore became the publisher of People , a title appealing primarily to women, and two years later became the magazine's president. Moore believed that the very successful publication could grow larger still if marketed more specifically to readers interested in women's fashion and popular journalism. In an interview withAdvertising Age in 2001 Moore referred to Time's "inability to understand you could make money marketing to women" (June 4, 2001). Until the 1990s Time published mainly financial and sporting magazines and marketed its titles almost entirely to an educated male readership.

Moore added beauty and fashion sections to People and changed its format from black-and-white to color. She also increased the proportion of advertising pages and changed the magazine's issue day from Monday to Friday so as to coincide with weekend shopping trips. Although the new direction in which Moore was taking the magazine met with a cautious response from Time senior management, her innovations proved successful. From 1991 People surpassed Time's traditional leader, Time magazine, in advertising revenue; by 2001 the gap had become considerable, with People earning $723.7 million to Time 's $666 million. In 2002 People earned one-third of Time's total revenues.

As president of People Moore established a pattern of successful magazine launches that further showed her all-around strengths in both the marketing and editorial aspects of magazine publishing. Along with spin-offs such as the Australian version of People , entitled WHO , Moore created four highly successful magazines at biyearly intervals between 1994 and 2000: In Style, People en Español, Teen People , and Real Simple .

In Style , launched in 1994, was the first magazine of its kind to include fashion, celebrity lifestyles, and shelter (interior design, architecture, and gardening) content. In Style reflected Moore's belief, expressed in a Brandweek interview in 1999, that "runway fashion didn't work and it was celebrities who were the trend spotters in America" (March 8, 1999). The new title drew cautious responses from both Moore's higherups at Time and sponsors but, as with the revamped People , was immediately successful with readers. By 2000 In Style was Time's 15th-biggest-selling title, with a circulation of 1.4 million.

In 1998 Moore was appointed president of the People group; in March 2001 she acquired responsibility for Time's Parenting group. Three months later she was appointed vice president to Time while still overseeing both the People and Parenting groups. Moore was appointed to the role of CEO and chairwoman of Time in July 2002, soon after the merger between Time Warner and AOL.

Published works[edit source]

Publisher of People

Launched Sports Illustrated for Kids.

Awards[edit source]

Matrix Award, Women in Communications, 1994; 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business, Fortune , 1998–2003; Civic Leadership Award, AOL Time Warner, 2003.

Bibliography[edit source]

Ann Moore. (2009). In A. Davidson , A. Davidson , & A. Davidson (Eds.), 1000 ceos. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.

Carr, David, "Inheriting the Burden of Success at Time Inc.," New York Times , July 22, 2002.

Cotts, Cynthia, "Poor Ann Moore," Village Voice , November 20, 2001, p. 32

Fine, Jon, "Teaching Boys' Club How to Reach Women," Advertising Age , June 4, 2001, p. S2

McCarthy, Ann. "Reference for Business." Ann Moore 1950- Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015

References[edit source]

1. Carr, David, "Inheriting the Burden of Success at Time Inc.," New York Times , July 22, 2002.
2. Cotts, Cynthia, "Poor Ann Moore," Village Voice , November 20, 2001, p. 32.
3. Ann Moore. (2009). In A. Davidson , A. Davidson , & A. Davidson (Eds.), 1000 ceos. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.
4. McCarthy, Ann. "Reference for Business." Ann Moore 1950- Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015
5. Fine, Jon, "Teaching Boys' Club How to Reach Women," Advertising Age , June 4, 2001, p. S2.

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