TicketsPROVIDENCE, R.I. - University of Cincinnati senior associate athletic director/senior women's administrator Maggie McKinley was appointed by the Division I Board of Directors to the NCAA Division I Council, American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco announced Wednesday.
McKinley replaces Connecticut's Warde Manual, who recently accepted the director of athletics position at the University of Michigan, as the American Athletic Conference's representative on the Council. "Maggie is a talented administrator and will do an outstanding job as our Conference's representative on the Council," Aresco said. "She is well-respected at her institution and in our league. Maggie is a former track and field student-athlete at Cincinnati, and has a terrific understanding of today's intercollegiate landscape and the goals and needs of our student-athletes. She has assumed leadership roles at Cincinnati, The American and the NCAA. All of us at The American look forward to working with Maggie in her new role." The NCAA Council is charged with implementing the overall vision of the college presidents and includes athletic directors, conference-level representatives, senior women administrators, faculty athletics representatives and current student-athletes. McKinley also serves on the NCAA Division I Legislative Committee. She has been a member of the Cincinnati athletics department staff since 2001 and was elevated to her current role in June 2014. McKinley has administrative oversight of the baseball, cross country, swimming and diving, track and field and volleyball programs in addition to her day-to-day role in the compliance office. She currently serves as chair of The American Track & Field Committee.
In addition to McKinley's appointment, Dr. David Szymanski, UC's faculty athletics representative, has been appointed to the Division I Two-Year Governance Structure Review Ad Hoc Working Group.
Szymanski was selected as Cincinnati's FAR in July 2012. He joined the UC faculty in 2010 from Texas A&M University and currently serves as Ddean and Professor of Marketing in UC's Carl H. Linder College of Business. He previously was the JC Penney Chair of Retailing Studies and served as director of the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M.