When this week’s Campus Celebrity is not only leading meetings or wearing the formal red University of Tampa jacket, you can also find Jimmy Uteg III relaxing on the beach and skim boarding on the shore.
Jimmy, 19, is a sophomore coming all the way from New Lenox, Illinois to major in International Business with a focus in Management.
He enjoys being a leader in his UT community, and definitely has exemplified that characteristic in his extra-curricular activities. Jimmy is the President of Honors Council, a Sophomore Senator for Student Government, and a UT Diplomat.
As a Sophomore Senator, Jimmy votes on legislation for Student Government and appropriations that provide funds for the campus organizations. As the Honors President, it is his duty to conduct the weekly meetings, which are on Tuesday nights at 6:00 pm in VC 219, and create fellowship amongst the honor students by hosting many social and academic events.
When Jimmy needs to take a break from his studies and activities, he enjoys playing poker late in the night with his friends. He also likes to clear his schedule on Wednesdays and travel to the nearest vacant beach from campus so he can skim board and lay on the beach to soak up the sun. Jimmy is also an inventor as he recently built his own composite skim board using carbon fiber and foam. Not only does he skim board, but Jimmy used to race stock cars and has won a few state championships doing so.
Sorry ladies! This mid-western stock car racing and skim boarding gentleman has been dating his lovely girlfriend, Brianna Cronin for eight months now.
Jimmy has set some goals for his future after he graduates from UT. Within the next three years, this business student wants to visit Brazil as it is his dream career to work as a liaison for an international corporation between Brazil and United States offices. He is currently learning Portuguese to help him acquire such a job in South America. Jimmy recommends to any student that to help reach your goals, he suggests that you should create an objectives list by writing them down, making them obtainable, and setting a time limit. He states, “Everything I have done in my life started as a goal that I wanted to achieve.”
Before Jimmy graduates, he would like to climb the minarets that are at the top of Plant Hall, as he believes that is a popular goal for a UT student like himself. Sometime in the future, Jimmy would love to have the experience to meet Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, who has created a business centered on cars and technology, and believes that he has the right mindset to improve motor vehicles in the future.
His favorite quote, “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room,” perfectly describes the character of our Campus Celebrity. Jimmy is a young college student who leads with passion and grace and has big goals set for his future.