Purchase, NY (Nov. 12, 2013) – Purchase College men's basketball captain David Haughton represented the Panthers in an NCAA Leadership Forum in Providence, Rhode Island over the weekend.

Haughton (SR/Greenburgh, NY) embarked for Providence early Thursday and was thrilled about the opportunity. "I am so happy to be representing Purchase," said Haughton, a standout student-athlete that was key member of last season's championship team. "This is truly an amazing opportunity for me and for our program to be represented.

"I am having so much fun, I don't want to come home," Haughton joked Friday morning via phone interview. The star basketball forward checked in mid day Thursday and following registration started to take part in a host of activities.

The event itself was one of a grand scale. The NCAA will host more than 350 student-athletes, who were identified as leaders on their campuses, and 125 athletics professionals from the northeast region of the United States during the annual NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum (Nov. 7-10).

The Leadership Forum is one of the largest non-competitive gatherings of NCAA student-athletes representing their colleges and universities. 
 
The forum was designed for student-athletes to discuss key issues collectively and provide them with an opportunity to enhance personal awareness and leadership skills needed to positively impact their development at the campus and conference levels, as well as beyond the collegiate realm.
 
"The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum is another type of educational setting that helps our student-athletes develop into more effective leaders and gets their thought process in motion which can help them on campus and even after they graduate," said Curtis J. Hollomon, NCAA director of leadership development in a release.
 
"It also allows them to communicate more on key topics of interest to them and to share best practices, while getting to know one another aside from competition. They then take ideas back to their Student-Athlete Advisory Committees and the results end up helping a wider range of student-athletes."

-With SID Bobby Ciafardini and NCAA Leadership Forum Communications