Staff Directory
- Title:
- Associate AD for Academic Support Services (Football, Baseball, Men's Golf)
- Email:
- Phone:
- 266-6785
Kylie Amato Hall serves as the Associate Athletics Director for Student Academic Athletic Services.
As Associate AD of Academics, she oversees the Bower Academic Center and staff who work effortlessly to help and challenge our student-athletes to be the best they can be, on and off the playing field.
Prior to USM, she was at Mississippi State, where she served as the Lead Academic Athletic Counselor for football (2009-16), while also working with the Bulldogs' volleyball team for one year. Her duties primarily involved advising student-athletes on a daily basis to help them achieve academic success. Her duties also included monitoring academic progress to ensure eligibility with NCAA academic requirements and ultimately graduation, as well as communicating periodic status updates to coaching staffs to keep them informed of student-athletes' academic progress.
In addition, she worked closely with the learning specialists to help ensure proper support and guidance was provided to all student-athletes with diagnosed learning disabilities, she designated tutor requirements and study hall hours for student-athletes, and she communicated regularly with faculty advisors to ensure all graduation requirements were being met through each academic department on campus. She also coordinated faculty advisement between the Office of Athletic Academic Support Services and all academic departments on campus. During the summer months, she implemented a Summer Bridge Program for incoming freshman football players to help aid in the transition between high school and college. In addition to these academic pursuits, she aided in coordinating community service events for all student-athletes.
Prior to her employment at Mississippi State, she served nine years in the Student-Athlete Academic Services Office at Florida State University. She began her employment in a postgraduate internship program, working primarily with football and men's basketball student-athletes. After a year, she was promoted to full-time status as an academic counselor and she worked with the women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, soccer, softball, and men and women's tennis teams for several years. After five years as an academic counselor, Amato was promoted to Assistant Director of Academic Services, where she continued working with the women's basketball, baseball, and women's tennis teams, while taking on additional duties including the education of all academic staff regarding the advising of student-athletes.
The Toomsuba, Miss., native was a letterwinner in volleyball at the University of West Alabama, where she earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2000. She began her career in coaching and joined the Northwestern State University volleyball program as a graduate assistant coach. While there, she earned her master's degree in Sports Administration in 2001. She continued her education by completing a second master's at the University of West Alabama in Continuing Education with a concentration in Counseling / Psychology in December 2012. She is currently an active member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics (N4A).
She is married to Matthew Hall of Hattiesburg, MS where they currently reside with her stepson, Alex Hall.
