Cleveland, Ohio — Villanova Vice President and Athletics Director Mark Jackson has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Committee, changing former Butler Athletics Director Barry Collier, who retired April 30. Jackson will fill the ultimate two years of Collier’s unique five-year time period because the Huge East Convention’s consultant on the committee.
Since Jackson assumed his position as athletics director in 2015, he has seen the Wildcats seize two nationwide championships in males’s basketball (2016 and 2018), whereas all the division has been honored for excelling at an elite degree in athletics competitors, tutorial efficiency, neighborhood service and management.
The Boston native performed defensive again on the soccer workforce at Colby and obtained a bachelor’s diploma from the faculty in 1995. He additionally earned a grasp’s diploma in public coverage from Trinity (Connecticut) in 1997. He labored for 2 Nationwide Soccer League groups, first serving as a training assistant with the New England Patriots from 1998-2000 after which as director of soccer growth for the Oakland Raiders from 2007-08.
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Nevertheless it’s within the collegiate house the place Jackson has made his mark. Along with his almost 9 years at Villanova, he additionally served as senior affiliate director of athletics and chief innovation officer at Southern California, the place he had duty for the varsity’s soccer, baseball and girls’s lacrosse groups, in addition to help companies, together with sports activities drugs, energy and conditioning, diet, and attire operations. Earlier than Southern California, Jackson labored at Syracuse as the manager senior affiliate athletics director, overseeing all elements of athletic administration and help for the varsity’s 20 males’s and girls’s packages, together with males’s and girls’s basketball.
He additionally has been closely concerned with the NCAA, helping with the event of sturdy compliance packages at Southern California and Syracuse, in addition to serving on the Division I Council. He additionally represented the council on the Strategic Imaginative and prescient and Planning Committee, which has oversight of administrative features associated to the administration of the Division I governance construction, together with enterprise and authorized affairs, strategic planning and analysis, Division I membership actions, and well being and security issues.
“It’s a nice honor to be chosen to finish the time period of Barry Collier on the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Committee,” Jackson mentioned. “Barry has been an exquisite steward of our sport as each a profitable head coach and athletics director. I’m grateful for his friendship and the knowledge he has shared with me over time. As Villanova’s athletics director, I’ve been blessed to work at an establishment with an incredible basketball historical past and in a convention, the Huge East, that has been on the forefront of school basketball since its inception. I’m grateful to the NCAA for putting its belief in me and sit up for serving with so many distinguished colleagues within the subsequent two seasons.”
