University of Memphis hires former HBCU Director of Athletics

Courtesy: College of Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The College of Memphis has named Dr. Ed Scott as its subsequent Senior Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, efficient July 22, 2024. Scott has served as Deputy Athletics Director on the College of Virginia since January 2022 and involves Memphis with earlier athletics director expertise at Morgan State College.

Scott shall be launched throughout a press convention on Friday, June 28. Particulars shall be shared with the media as soon as they’re finalized.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Scott and his household to Memphis,” mentioned U of M President Invoice Hardgrave. “Our objective on this in depth search was to discover a forward-thinking, transformative chief with the imaginative and prescient to assist us obtain the complete potential of Tiger Athletics. Whereas there have been many distinctive candidates, we discovered that chief in Dr. Scott. We’re lucky to have him be a part of the Tiger Household, and we stay up for persevering with towards our promising future in athletics underneath his steerage.”

Scott’s tasks at Virginia have included oversight of sports activities drugs, energy and conditioning, diet, sport psychology, males’s basketball, baseball, swimming & diving, monitor & subject and cross nation and variety, fairness and inclusion. He additionally assisted in soccer oversight as a particular advisor to the top soccer coach.

Previous to his time at Virginia, Scott served because the Vice President and Director of Athletics at Morgan State from October 2016 till assuming his present function at Virginia. Because of reaching unprecedented ranges of success at Morgan State, he was named the 2021-22 Cushman & Wakefield Athletic Director of the Yr by the Nationwide Affiliation of Collegiate Administrators of Athletics.

“The College of Memphis is a vacation spot for me, and it has been on my radar for a while,” Scott mentioned. “With distinctive student-athletes, coaches and employees which have the backing of a proud and motivated metropolis, the chance is right here to perform nice issues as we proceed ahead in a brand new period of intercollegiate athletics. I wish to thank President Hardgrave for giving me this chance. My household and I are excited to hitch Tiger Nation.”

Scott was the primary athletics director to serve on the President’s Cupboard at Morgan State whereas overseeing the day-to-day operations of the athletics division and its 14 Division I applications. He additionally launched the division’s first annual fund (Morgan Bear Membership) and negotiated Morgan State’s first-ever complete attire take care of Below Armour®. A number of Morgan State amenities had been improved or renovated underneath Scott’s management, totaling roughly $25 million of enhancements to athletic and leisure amenities over his 5 years.

“After we began this search, I mentioned we had been searching for an revolutionary, daring chief who will convey our athletic program into the following period, and Ed Scott is that chief,” mentioned Dave North, Chair of the Athletics Director Search Advisory Committee and College of Memphis Board of Trustees member.

A standout baseball student-athlete at Albany, Scott earned CoSIDA Educational All-American standing, was named America East Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Yr and obtained America East First Group All-Convention honors as a centerfielder. Along with incomes his bachelor’s and grasp’s levels from Albany, Scott has a PhD from Binghamton College’s College of Neighborhood and Public Affairs. He and his spouse, Tara, have a daughter, Tia.

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