MILWAUKEE — Marquette athletic director Invoice Scholl says he plans to retire and finish his decade-long tenure as quickly as the college names his successor.
Scholl, who took over as Marquette’s athletic director in 2014, introduced his determination Tuesday.
“It has been an honor to work at such a particular place surrounded by outstanding individuals,” Scholl mentioned in a press release. “I’m most pleased with our student-athletes, who’ve excelled not solely in competitors however within the classroom and the group as ladies and men for others. My household and I deeply admire how this group has welcomed us from the beginning. Marquette will all the time have a particular place in our hearts.”
Marquette is starting a nationwide seek for a brand new athletic director with assist from Collegiate Sports activities Associates. The search committee will probably be chaired by Kati Berg, a school athletics consultant and affiliate professor at Marquette’s Diederich Faculty of Communication.
Scholl helped spark the rejuvenation of the Marquette males’s basketball program in 2021 by hiring Shaka Good away from Texas after firing Steve Wojciechowski. Marquette has posted a 75-30 report below Good and has reached the NCAA Event in every of his three seasons. The Golden Eagles reached the Candy 16 this yr after successful the Large East’s regular-season and match titles in 2023.
Final month, Scholl employed Cara Consuegra from Charlotte to take over the ladies’s basketball program after Megan Duffy left for Virginia Tech. Scholl had employed Duffy, who went 110-46 in 5 seasons at Marquette.
Scholl got here to Marquette after working as Ball State’s athletic director from 2012-14. He spent 23 years at Notre Dame and rose to the extent of deputy athletics director earlier than Ball State employed him.
Since Scholl arrived at Marquette, greater than $10 million has been raised for Marquette’s varied sports activities excellence funds. Marquette opened a $3.6 million dome in 2017 that gives indoor competitors and coaching house for the college’s soccer, observe, golf, and males’s and girls’s lacrosse packages.
The college opened its Athletic and Human Efficiency Analysis Middle in 2019 to offer workplaces, locker rooms and workforce house for golf and males’s and girls’s lacrosse. The constructing consists of an indoor coaching facility for males’s golf. Funds are being raised for a second part of the middle that may embody males’s basketball apply services, sports activities medication house for student-athletes and locker rooms for Olympic sports activities groups.
“Invoice had two targets when he arrived at Marquette — to convey excellence and accountability inside the athletics division, and to offer for, nurture and develop student-athletes,” Marquette President Michael Lovell mentioned in a press release. “He achieved these targets and contributed to the legacy of our athletics program in numerous ways in which have benefited our student-athletes, coaches and athletics workers, and for that, our Marquette group will all the time be grateful.
“I admire all he has executed for our athletics program and for Marquette College. Amy and I’ll miss him and his spouse Julie significantly.”