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The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) is a professional non-profit organization for college and university athletic directors in the United States. NACDA boasts a membership of more than 6,100 individuals and more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico .
A statue of Robert Neyland, who served as athletic director for over 20 years for the Tennessee Volunteers, located at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of ...
Asa Smith Bushnell III (February 2, 1900 – March 22, 1975) was the first commissioner (initially titled executive director) of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, serving from 1938 to 1970, [1] and was board member (1945 to 1970) and secretary of the United States Olympic Committee, editing, co-editing and/or writing "Olympic Books" at least from 1948 to 65. [2]
Benedict got his start in sports management in 1996 at Arizona State University. He was initially hired for only a single task, organizing the event dedicating and naming the football field for former coach Frank Kush. He impressed a top administrator and was offered a position. [6]
The Athletic was founded in 2016 by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann as an independent subscription-based online sports magazine, and it gradually expanded its stable of writers over the next few years to provide better coverage of more teams in more markets, including in the United Kingdom. However, the magazine remained unable to earn enough ...
Mar. 11—The Kansas Interscholastic Athletic Administration Association has named Abilene Middle School Athletic Director Derek Berns Middle School Athletic Director of the Year. Unlike at the ...
In 2018, Sports Business Journal named him Athletic Director of the Year. [14] The NCAA named him a Champion of Inclusion in 2020. [15] He was one of Business NC's "Executives of the Year" in 2024. [16] He was the first athletic director on the NCAA Board of Directors and Board of Governors. In 2015, he was the inaugural chair of the NCAA ...
After spending 13 years in athletic administration at Georgia, Williams became the first African-American woman to lead an athletic department at a Power 5 school (ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12). She joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as an athletic director in 2017.