Jessica Palavicini

About

Sports coordinator/administrator in Costa Rica (private, well-known school) with hands-on experience scouting and recruiting student-athletes for scholarship opportunities. Known for a character-first evaluation approach and transparent family communication, including successfully navigating an injury-related recruitment challenge and making tough admit/reject calls tied to family dynamics.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Holistic talent evaluation emphasizing attitude, body language, and character in addition to on-field performance
• Direct, transparent communication to build trust with athletes and families
• Managing sensitive recruitment decisions (including rejecting candidates due to family dynamics)
• Guiding an injured recruit through a remediation plan to keep scholarship/recruitment viable
• Experience coordinating multiple sports programs and working closely with coaches/stakeholders

Reference Highlights

• Responsible communicator
• Meets agreed deadlines
• Highly responsive, even during transitions/changes
• Acts quickly in urgent situations
• Effective under pressure
• Strong leadership (mobilizes team after hours)
• Keeps stakeholders informed of changes
• Objective talent evaluator
• Clear situational analysis
• Identifies strengths and improvement areas in others
• Emotionally balanced in high-pressure moments
• Sound judgment in critical decisions
• Builds trust and empathy exceptionally well
• Close, respectful communication style
• Oriented to athletes’ holistic wellbeing
• Proactive in supporting struggling individuals
• Connects people to appropriate specialist resources
• Organized, disciplined, and reliable
• Excellent self-management
• Executes plans effectively
• Outstanding in sports management (described as the best the reference has known)
• Develops team unity by delegating and empowering others
• Strong fit for recruiting, relationship-building, and content creation roles