Anne Saunders "Sandy" Barbour (born December 2, 1959) is an American athletic administrator who served as the athletic director at the Pennsylvania State University from 2014 to 2022, the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2014, and Tulane University from 1996 to 1999.[1]
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| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2, 1959 Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Wake Forest University (B.S.) University of Massachusetts Amherst (M.S.) Northwestern University (M.B.A.) |
| Playing career | |
| Field hockey | |
| 1977–1980 | Wake Forest |
| Basketball | |
| 1977–1978; 1979–1980 | Wake Forest |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Field hockey | |
| 1981 | UMass (asst.) |
| 1982–1984 | Northwestern (asst.) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1982–1984 | Northwestern (dir. recruiting services) |
| 1984–1989 | Northwestern (asst. AD) |
| 1991–1996 | Tulane (assoc. AD) |
| 1996–1999 | Tulane |
| 2000–2002 | Notre Dame (assoc. AD) |
| 2002–2004 | Notre Dame (deputy AD) |
| 2004–2014 | California |
| 2014–2022 | Penn State |
Penn State
editBarbour directed the Penn State athletic programs, which have approximately 800 students in 31 sports (16 men’s/15 women’s) and an Intercollegiate Athletics staff of more than 300.[citation needed]
In 2020, Barbour was among the honorees on Sports Illustrated’s "The Unrelenting" list of powerful, influential and outstanding women in sports.[2]
In 2018, she was named one of five finalists for Sports Business Journal’s prestigious Athletic Director of the Year.[3]
Barbour is a member of the NCAA Football Oversight Committee, serving as Chair beginning in July 2021 for a term to end June 2023[4] and represents the Big Ten Conference on the NCAA Division I Council.[5] In 2017, she was selected as one of the inaugural members of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s (USOC) Collegiate Sports Sustainability Think Tank. The Think Tank is charged with bridging the gap between high-contributing collegiate stakeholders and the Olympic Movement.
In March 2022, Barbour announced she would retire from Penn State in Summer 2022.[6]
Cal and Tulane
editBarbour was the director of athletics at Cal from 2004-14.
Barbour served as athletic director at Tulane University from 1996 until resigning in 1999, having joined the staff as an associate athletic director in 1991.[7]
References
edit- ^ Jon Wilner (26 June 2014). "Cal's Sandy Barbour out as athletic director". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "The Unrelenting". SI.com. Sports Illustrated. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Athletic Director of the Year". Sports Business Journal. Leaders Group. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Division I Football Oversight Committee". NCAA.org. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Division I Council". NCAA.org. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sandy Barbour to Retire". GoPSUSports.com. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ Sandy Barbour Resigns as Athletics Director, Aug. 9, 1999