CINCINNATI’S MAGGIE MCKINLEY APPOINTED TO NCAA DIVISION I COUNCIL
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Commissioner Mike Aresco is pleased to announce that Maggie McKinley, senior associate athletic director/senior women’s administrator at the University of Cincinnati, was appointed by the Division I Board of Directors to the NCAA Division I Council. McKinley replaces Connecticut’s Warde Manual, who recently accepted the director of athletics position at the University of Michigan, as the American Athletic Conference’s representative on the Council.
“Maggie is a talented administrator and will do an outstanding job as our Conference’s representative on the Council,” Aresco said. “She is well-respected at her institution and in our league. Maggie is a former track and field student-athlete at Cincinnati, and has a terrific understanding of today’s intercollegiate landscape and the goals and needs of our student-athletes. She has assumed leadership roles at Cincinnati, The American and the NCAA. All of us at The American look forward to working with Maggie in her new role.”
The NCAA Council is charged with implementing the overall vision of the college presidents and includes athletic directors, conference-level representatives, senior women administrators, faculty athletics representatives and current student-athletes.
McKinley also serves on the NCAA Division I Legislative Committee. She has been a member of the Cincinnati athletics department staff since 2001 and was elevated to her current role in June 2014. McKinley has administrative oversight of the baseball, cross country, swimming and diving, track and field and volleyball programs in addition to her day-to-day role in the compliance office. She currently serves as chair of The American Track & Field Committee.
In addition to McKinley, several other administrators at the Conference’s member institutions have been appointed to key NCAA committees and ad hoc working groups. Ellen Ferris, associate commissioner for governance and compliance at The American, has been chosen to serve on the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeal Committee; Gabe Feldman, associate provost for NCAA Compliance and director of the Tulane University Law Program, has been named to the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS); Susan A. Vollmerhausen, assistant athletics director for student and eligibility at Southern Methodist University, has been selected to the NCAA Division I Initial-Eligibility Waivers Committee; Dr. Derrick Gragg, vice president and director of athletics at the University of Tulsa, will serve as a member of the Ad Hoc Postseason Football Bowl Games Working Group; and Dr. David Szymanski, faculty athletics representative at the University of Cincinnati, has been appointed to the Division I Two-Year Governance Structure Review Ad Hoc Working Group
Ferris, who joined The American in October 2013, began her three-year term appointment in the Fall of 2015. She has extensive experience both at the NCAA as well as at the institutional and conference levels. Prior to assuming her position with The American, she was a member of the compliance staff at the University of Southern California for seven years, where she served as the Associate Vice President for Athletic Compliance from 2010-13. Ferris sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Athletic Compliance and has been a member of the NAAC Reasonable Standards Committee, the NCAA Division I Legislative Review and Interpretations Committee, the Division I Management Council and the Division I Men’s Tennis Committee.
Feldman is a noted leader in the field of sports law and the editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal. Named the Paul and Abram B. Barron Associate Professor of Law in 2015 at Tulane, he joined the Tulane Faculty in 2005. He has a comprehensive background in sports law that includes representing a variety of sports entities while he was in private practice, and remains as a consultant for a number of clients in the sports industry. Feldman’s term as a member of the CSMAS runs through August
31, 2019.
Vollmerhausen has been a member of the SMU athletics staff since fall 2011. In her role with the Mustangs, she serves as the department’s liaison to the admissions office, facilitates the athletic certification process and monitors student-athlete eligibility. She also oversees the Life Skills program and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Gragg is in his third year as vice president and director of athletics at Tulsa. He served for seven years as director of intercollegiate athletics at Eastern Michigan University prior to his appointment at Tulsa. His career spans more than 20 years at the universities of Arkansas, Michigan, Missouri and Vanderbilt. Gragg also has served as a member of the NCAA’s Legislative Council and currently is a member of the American Athletic Conference’s Athletic Directors’ Executive Committee.
Szymanski was selected as Cincinnati’s FAR in July 2012. He joined the UC faculty in 2010 from Texas A&M University and currently serves as Ddean and Professor of Marketing in UC’s Carl H. Linder College of Business. He previously was the JC Penney Chair of Retailing Studies and served as director of the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Commissioner Mike Aresco is pleased to announce that Maggie McKinley, senior associate athletic director/senior women’s administrator at the University of Cincinnati, was appointed by the Division I Board of Directors to the NCAA Division I Council. McKinley replaces Connecticut’s Warde Manual, who recently accepted the director of athletics position at the University of Michigan, as the American Athletic Conference’s representative on the Council.
“Maggie is a talented administrator and will do an outstanding job as our Conference’s representative on the Council,” Aresco said. “She is well-respected at her institution and in our league. Maggie is a former track and field student-athlete at Cincinnati, and has a terrific understanding of today’s intercollegiate landscape and the goals and needs of our student-athletes. She has assumed leadership roles at Cincinnati, The American and the NCAA. All of us at The American look forward to working with Maggie in her new role.”
The NCAA Council is charged with implementing the overall vision of the college presidents and includes athletic directors, conference-level representatives, senior women administrators, faculty athletics representatives and current student-athletes.
McKinley also serves on the NCAA Division I Legislative Committee. She has been a member of the Cincinnati athletics department staff since 2001 and was elevated to her current role in June 2014. McKinley has administrative oversight of the baseball, cross country, swimming and diving, track and field and volleyball programs in addition to her day-to-day role in the compliance office. She currently serves as chair of The American Track & Field Committee.
In addition to McKinley, several other administrators at the Conference’s member institutions have been appointed to key NCAA committees and ad hoc working groups. Ellen Ferris, associate commissioner for governance and compliance at The American, has been chosen to serve on the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeal Committee; Gabe Feldman, associate provost for NCAA Compliance and director of the Tulane University Law Program, has been named to the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS); Susan A. Vollmerhausen, assistant athletics director for student and eligibility at Southern Methodist University, has been selected to the NCAA Division I Initial-Eligibility Waivers Committee; Dr. Derrick Gragg, vice president and director of athletics at the University of Tulsa, will serve as a member of the Ad Hoc Postseason Football Bowl Games Working Group; and Dr. David Szymanski, faculty athletics representative at the University of Cincinnati, has been appointed to the Division I Two-Year Governance Structure Review Ad Hoc Working Group
Ferris, who joined The American in October 2013, began her three-year term appointment in the Fall of 2015. She has extensive experience both at the NCAA as well as at the institutional and conference levels. Prior to assuming her position with The American, she was a member of the compliance staff at the University of Southern California for seven years, where she served as the Associate Vice President for Athletic Compliance from 2010-13. Ferris sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Athletic Compliance and has been a member of the NAAC Reasonable Standards Committee, the NCAA Division I Legislative Review and Interpretations Committee, the Division I Management Council and the Division I Men’s Tennis Committee.
Feldman is a noted leader in the field of sports law and the editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal. Named the Paul and Abram B. Barron Associate Professor of Law in 2015 at Tulane, he joined the Tulane Faculty in 2005. He has a comprehensive background in sports law that includes representing a variety of sports entities while he was in private practice, and remains as a consultant for a number of clients in the sports industry. Feldman’s term as a member of the CSMAS runs through August
31, 2019.
Vollmerhausen has been a member of the SMU athletics staff since fall 2011. In her role with the Mustangs, she serves as the department’s liaison to the admissions office, facilitates the athletic certification process and monitors student-athlete eligibility. She also oversees the Life Skills program and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Gragg is in his third year as vice president and director of athletics at Tulsa. He served for seven years as director of intercollegiate athletics at Eastern Michigan University prior to his appointment at Tulsa. His career spans more than 20 years at the universities of Arkansas, Michigan, Missouri and Vanderbilt. Gragg also has served as a member of the NCAA’s Legislative Council and currently is a member of the American Athletic Conference’s Athletic Directors’ Executive Committee.
Szymanski was selected as Cincinnati’s FAR in July 2012. He joined the UC faculty in 2010 from Texas A&M University and currently serves as Ddean and Professor of Marketing in UC’s Carl H. Linder College of Business. He previously was the JC Penney Chair of Retailing Studies and served as director of the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M.