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Joe Castiglione is the new NACDA president. |
Castiglione Chosen NACDA President
June 20, 2002
Norman, Okla. - The members of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) have chosen Joe Castiglione, director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma, to serve as president for 2002-03. Castiglione was elected during NACDA's 37th Annual Convention, held June 16-19 at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
Castiglione, who began his tenure in 1998, is the 11th person to serve as director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma. He has made fund raising a priority, and it is at an all-time high, both in annual campaigns and through the capital campaign. He cultivated an $8.1 million donation, the largest capital gift in history for athletics at OU.
Castiglione also has overseen the completion, construction, development and renovation of several Sooner athletics facilities. Ground was broken in July 2000 on a $16.8 million renovation of Lloyd Noble Center, which will give the Sooner basketball programs one of the best competitive and practice facilities in the nation. The Sooner football practice fields have been redesigned and the all-weather surface replaced. The Sooner wrestling program cut the ribbon on the Port Robertson Wrestling Facility in February 2000 and a new soccer facility is being built. Additional renovations to L. Dale Mitchell Park and the Charlie Coe Golf Learning Center and Barry Switzer Center were completed. A master plan has been developed, which includes additional renovations to the Sooner softball facility, new tennis courts, renovation of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, the track and field facility and an indoor practice facility.
In 1999-2000, for the first time in his Sooner tenure, the University of Oklahoma ranked in the top 25 in the Sears Directors' Cup competition and have moved higher in the standings each year, placing 16th in 2001-02. OU earned the NCAA/CHAMPS Life Skills Program of Excellence award in the fall of 1998 given by the Division IA Athletic Directors Association. Additionally, Castiglione was named NACDA's 2000 Central Region AD of the Year. Castiglione had previously served as AD at the University of Missouri, from 1993-98. He was a leader in the creation of the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA), and served as its president for four years (1990-93). In 1997, he was honored by NACMA for his contributions to intercollegiate sports marketing.
Also elected to serve NACDA for the 2002-03 term are 1st Vice President Judy Rose, director of athletics at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte; 2nd Vice President Gene DeFilippo, director of athletics at Boston College; 3rd Vice President Tim Curley, director of athletics at Penn State University; and Tim Gleason, commissioner of the Ohio Athletics Conference, to the third year of a fiveyear term as secretary.
New Executive Committee members selected include athletics directors Rick Greenspan of the U.S. Military Academy; Chris Hill of the University of Utah; Ted Leland of Stanford University; Bob Roller of Samford University; and Tim Weiser of Kansas State University as University Division representatives. College Division representatives include athletics directors Ed Farrington of Western Connecticut State University; Walter Johnson of North Central College; Gene Marshall of Ramapo College of New Jersey; and Joan McDermott of Metropolitan State College of Denver. The new Community College representative is John Jackson of Dean College. New At-Large representatives include Bob Casciola of the National Football Foundation; Natalie Cronkhite of the NAIA; Cheryl Marra of the University of Wisconsin; Mike Slive of Conference USA; and Barbara Walker of Wake Forest University.
NACDA, now in its 37th year, serves as the professional and educational association for more than 6,100 college athletics directors, associates, assistants and conference commissioners at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Through its series of management seminars and clinics, it offers educational opportunities to its members. Additionally, NACDA administers the Sears Directors' Cup program, which honors the all-sports champion in each of the NCAA Divisions I, II and III and the NAIA. NACDA also publishes Athletics Administration, an informative national magazine considered the voice of college athletics administration, six times a year.
