Staff Directory

Dr. Gregg Garn

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Deputy AD / Performance Excellence
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Dr. Gregg Garn serves as the Deputy Athletics Director for Performance Excellence at the University of Oklahoma. He oversees strategy, academics, sports medicine and performance for the department and is the sport administrator for the men’s and women’s track and field, cross country and tennis programs, as well as volleyball. Prior to joining athletics full-time, he served as OU’s faculty athletics representative (FAR) for seven years, overseeing institutional integrity and governance for the Big 12 Conference, SEC and NCAA.

Garn has held a variety of leadership roles at OU, including Vice President of Online Learning. In that position, he led a team that grew enrollment to 4,300 students and managed a portfolio of 50 online programs across the university’s Norman, Health Sciences and Tulsa campuses. Garn also served as Dean of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education for seven years and as Interim Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies for two years. While serving as the Executive Director of the K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal, K20 secured over $200 million in external funding to improve educational outcomes for Oklahoma K-12 students.

Garn held the Humphreys Chair in Education and is a past recipient of the Linda Clarke Anderson Presidential Professorship, both at OU. He is also a former president of the Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutions (CADREI). In recognition of his leadership, Garn received the McVittie Emerging Leader Award from the American Association of University Administrators in 2017.

A track and field student-athlete, Garn graduating from the University of Northern Iowa in 1994 and received his master’s degree (1996) and his Ph.D. (1998) from Arizona State University. He and his wife, Jennifer, a pharmacist, have three children: Kathryn, Dylan and Allyson.