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A&T names new athletics director
May 4, 2005
GREENSBORO, N.C. - NC A&T has named DeLores “Dee” Todd
as the University’s new director of intercollegiate athletics,
effective June 15. Todd ws introduced at a press conference today
by Chancellor James Renick.
“We are very pleased that we were able to recruit Dee
Todd for such an important role at A&T,” Renick said. “She
has excellent experience and the right motivation to manage
and lead our intercollegiate athletics program.”
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As the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) assistant commissioner/director
of student-athletic welfare since 2000, Todd said she was excited
and eager about her new role at A&T.
“I am extremely excited about the opportunity to take
the athletics department in the same direction as the university
with its growth,” Todd said. “I am looking forward
to doing my best to motivate, support and lead the department
to victory on the playing field, in academics and in life.”
ACC Commissioner John Swofford described the hire as a wonderful
opportunity for Todd, A&T and Greensboro. “Dee has
vast experiences as a student athlete, coach and administrator,
and she is a superb individual who knows intercollegiate athletics
in and out,” Swofford explained. “Her involvement
within the Greensboro community will be a real plus.”
Todd was the first female to serve as an assistant commissioner
in the history of the ACC and will be A&T’s first
female director of athletics. Todd has over 30 years of progressive
experience and responsibility with documented success in interscholastic
and intercollegiate athletes in planning, scheduling, training
development, Olympic sports programs and financial and human
resource management. She describes her background as “a
rare blend of knowledge, experience and love of sports and
its periphery that is uncommon and uncompromising.”
Her ACC responsibilities enabled Todd to supervise, direct
and coordinate officiating programs for baseball, as well as
plan, organize and direct men’s and women’s cross
country, men’s and women’s indoor track and field,
men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, women's
basketball and baseball championship events. She was the liaison
between those sports committees and coordinated special projects
with institutional staff members. She recently served on the
NCAA Championship/Competition Cabinet and Administration Subcommittees
and chaired the Certified Contests Subcommittee.
Todd chaired the USOC’s Minorities in Sports Task Force
and was co-founder of Project GOLD. She is past president and
former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association
of College Women Athletic Administrators. She chaired the subcommittee
of the NCAA Division I Track and Field Committee responsible
for the complete coordination of the Division I Outdoor Track
Meet from 1995-99. In 1999, she served as an assistant coach
of World Track and Field Championships in Seville, Spain. She
also served as tournament manager for NCAA East Regionals for
Women in 1999.
Todd joined the Georgia Tech staff in 1985 after serving as
head coach for four years at Northwestern University, where
she earned the 1983 Cross Country Big Ten Coach of the Year
honors. While at Georgia Tech, Todd was a three-time Georgia
State Coach of the Year, winning the Georgia State Intercollegiate
Championships from 1985-87. Todd was named ACC Coach of the
Year for Women’s Outdoor Track in 1987 after guiding
the Lady Jackets to a fourth place finish in the outdoor championships
after the school’s second year of competition in that
sport.
A native of Camden, N.J., Todd was a successful high school
coach in Illinois. She led her outdoor track teams and cross
country teams to 11 conference championships at Thornridge
High in Dolton and at Rich Central High in Olympia. She also
spent one year at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda,
Md.
Todd graduated with honors from Winston-Salem State University
in 1972 with a degree in health and physical education. She
received her masters in human relations and psychotherapy from
Governor’s State University in 1981. In 2001, she was
inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
(CIAA) Hall of Fame and in Winston-Salem State University’s
Hall of Fame in 2002.
For the past 14 years, Todd has served on various committees
in the community including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, chair
of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Commission, North Carolina
Juvenile Justice Commissioner, Board of Directors for Goodwill
Industries, Mental Health Board of Directors, YMCA Board of
Directors, Center for Creative Leadership Board of Directors,
external vice president of Women’s Professional Forum
and Board of Governors, Summit House of North Carolina. She
also works on various NCAA committees.
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