TicketsCaroline Tart joined the Cincinnati staff as the director of football recruiting in January 2023.
Tart spent the previous two seasons (2021-22) serving as the director of on-campus recruiting at Louisville where she was instrumental in securing one of the ACC’s top-ranked recruiting classes. While there, she was responsible for planning and leading official visits, unofficial visits, game day programming, junior days and other special events. In conjunction with senior sport administration, Tart worked to execute multiple all-sport recruiting events throughout the 2022 football season.
Prior to her stint at Louisville, Tart spent four seasons at Oklahoma (2017-2020) under the direction of Annie Hanson, a nationally recognized leader in recruiting. At OU, she helped land Top 10 recruiting classes every year of her tenure. The Sooners won the Big 12 title in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, made College Football Playoff semifinal appearances in 2017, 2018 and 2019 (in the Rose, Orange and Peach Bowls, respectively) and also played in the Cotton Bowl in the 2020 season.
Tart spent two seasons (2016-17) as a recruiting assistant at North Carolina at Chapel Hill assisting in recruiting efforts both as a student and an on-campus recruiting assistant upon graduation. She earned a bachelor's degree from UNC with a double major in sport administration and history in 2017.
Tart has been a long-time advocate for the Alzheimer’s Association in educating our youth about the disease and raising funds and awareness through Forget Me Not: It’s Time to Stop Alzheimer’s Now, developed by Tart for community outreach. She has spoken to more than 6,000 students in North Carolina and positively impacted patients’ families through the donation of memory boxes and blankets.
She grew up in Statesville, North Carolina, and graduated from Statesville High School.
She is married to Michael Tart, a graduate of the University of Maryland and former member of the football team (2010-14). He is currently a Division I football official.