MEET THE STAFF

A. Shawn McWashington
Director of Student-Athlete Academic Services

Shawn came to Tulane University from Florida State University where he was a compliance protégé of Bob Minnix, associate athletic director for compliance and legal affairs. Two weeks after being hired at Tulane, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region. The academic services office was underwater for days as a result of the ensuing floods. Once the waters receded Shawn and his staff were challenged to recreate student-athlete academic services from scratch.

Since Shawn has been at Tulane, more than 55 percent of the student-athletes have earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and NCAA President Myles Brand has applauded the athletics department as a whole for exceptional APR numbers in the wake of tragedy. One of the more celebrated programs that Shawn has implemented is a monthly workshop utilizing university resources to educate academically at-risk student-athletes.

Shawn is a native of Seattle, Wash., where he attended Washington State University. He was a four-year letter winner and three-year starter on a team that reached the 1998 Rose Bowl, though lost to then-national champion University of Michigan. As a former wide receiver, he is credited with the motion capture for SEGA’s NFL 2K video game. During his professional football career he played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Amsterdam Admirals, Pittsburg Steelers, Edmonton Eskimos and the British Columbia Lions.

Shawn received his undergraduate degree in communications and his master's in education administration. He has completed the coursework for his PhD in sports management.

Lindsey Stineman
Academic Counselor

Lindsey Stineman is entering her third year with the academic services program where she works with the baseball, football and men’s basketball teams. She came to Tulane two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit. During the 2005 fall semester, she supervised six Tulane athletics teams while being hosted by Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

A native of Oxford, Neb., Stineman earned her master of science degree in education counseling from Kansas State University in 2005. She had transitioned to Kansas State after graduating from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa in 2002 with an undergraduate degree in exercise and sports science. While at Briar Cliff, Lindsey was a four-year starter for the women’s basketball team.

Stineman is a member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics (N4A).  

Charlotte Battiest
Academic Counselor

Charlotte Battiest is an academic counselor for athletics at Tulane University. She joined the academic services staff at the beginning of the spring 2007 semester.

Previously, Charlotte worked at the University of New Orleans (UNO), as a graduate admissions counselor and the assistant to the registrar. Her vast knowledge and experience in the student services field extends more than five years.

She is a native New Orleanian and a former athlete of the UNO women’s basketball team. Charlotte earned her master’s in educational administration in 2003 and her bachelor's in English in 2001 from UNO.