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The following is a list of NCAA Division I universities in the United States (listed alphabetically by their schools' athletic brand name) and their current athletic director. This list only includes schools playing Division I football or men's basketball. Schools are alphabetized by commonly used short name, regardless of their official name.
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 .
Donald Ray Tanner Jr. (born March 25, 1958) is an American college athletics administrator and former baseball coach who was most recently the athletic director at the University of South Carolina. Tanner began this role after leading the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball program for sixteen seasons.
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 ...
Intercollegiate sports began in the United States in 1852 when crews from Harvard and Yale universities met in a challenge race in the sport of rowing. [13] As rowing remained the preeminent sport in the country into the late-1800s, many of the initial debates about collegiate athletic eligibility and purpose were settled through organizations like the Rowing Association of American Colleges ...
Troy Dannen is an American college athletics administrator. He has served as the seventeenth full-time athletic director at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln since March 2024, a position he previously held at the University of Washington , Tulane University , and the University of Northern Iowa .
He received a new contract which extended his run as school athletic director through the 2024-25 season [7] but was replaced on February 2, 2024 by former Wildcats Softball coach Mike Candrea, [8] who served as interim athletic director until the hiring of Desireé Reed-Francois which was announced on February 19, 2024.
In 2018, Brooks became a deputy athletic director, and in 2019 became the senior deputy athletic director. In 2021, following the departure of Greg McGarity, Brooks became the athletic director for the University of Georgia. [2] In his first two years as athletic director, Georgia won back-to-back national championships in football in 2021 and ...