UNCG Athletic Director Search Completed by Carrick

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Kimberly S. "Kim" Record, who has held associate athletics director positions at Florida State University and the University of Virginia, will be the next director of intercollegiate athletics at UNCG.

Chancellor Linda P. Brady made the announcement today at a news conference, in conjunction with UNCG's first Blue & Gold Day of the 2009-10 academic year. The appointment is effective Oct. 1.

Record, who is a consultant with ISP Sports, was the senior associate director of athletics at Florida State from 1995 to 2008, and held a succession of positions at Virginia from 1984-1995, culminating with an appointment as associate director of athletics for administration.
She emerged from a national search that drew 125 candidates, and is UNCG's first woman athletic director. There are only 29 female athletic directors in the NCAA Division I, with five of them in the UNC system. Record is only the second woman to hold an athletic director position in the 89-year-old Southern Conference.

"I am delighted that Kim Record is joining UNCG as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics," said UNCG Chancellor Linda P. Brady. "She is the right person for this position, and she possesses the leadership, administration and fundraising skills that are essential to bringing greater success to Spartan athletics. I look forward to working with her to raise UNCG's program to a higher level of visibility and excellence."

At UNCG, Record will lead a program that fields men's and women's teams in 18 sports, 250 student-athletes, and 57 employees, including coaches and assistants. She succeeds Nelson E. Bobb, UNCG's first AD who resigned from the post in the spring, after directing Spartan athletics for 26 years.

"I knew when I met Chancellor Brady and stepped on campus that UNC Greensboro was a special place with limitless possibilities," Record said. "Being selected as the director of athletics gives me the opportunity to join a committed team of people who share my passion for intercollegiate athletics. I will honor the traditions of the past, celebrate today's successes and chart a course for the future which enriches this great institution. Graduating student-athletes, playing by the rules, being engaged members of this community and competing at the highest level is the Spartan formula for success."

UNCG Provost David H. Perrin, who chaired the national search, said, "Kim Record was selected from a very competitive field of over 125 candidates. The values she brings to UNCG are consistent with our athletic heritage - our student-athletes are students first and they compete with class and integrity. I am delighted she will be our next athletic director." The search was supported by Ken Carrick, Partner-Managing Director, Coleman Lew & Associates, a Charlotte-based executive search firm.

John Iamarino, commissioner of the Southern Conference in which UNCG plays, said, "Kim Record has an outstanding reputation in collegiate athletics. She has built up tremendous experience from working at high-profile institutions throughout her career. We are looking forward to working with her as she continues the growth of the UNC Greensboro athletics department."

Matt Brown, manager of the Greensboro Coliseum, said, "During her tenure at Florida State, Kim was instrumental in bringing the ACC women's basketball tournament to Greensboro. We have a great relationship with her as she is very familiar not only with the Greensboro Coliseum, but the entire Greensboro community. Kim will be a great addition to UNCG and is someone who can help take Spartan athletics to the next level."

Record will be responsible for the leadership, administration, organization and finances of UNCG's athletics program, which is undergoing a major shift in its men's basketball program. The Spartan men will be playing their games in the Greensboro Coliseum beginning this season.

Among other responsibilities, she will coordinate fundraising and operation of the Spartan Club with the vice chancellor for university advancement. She will oversee efforts to engage alumni, fans and the community with UNCG athletics. The AD also takes the lead role in strategic planning and in athletics facilities development. The athletics budget is approximately $8.8 million, and athletic scholarships provided for the 2009-10 academic year exceed $2.1 million.

In her 13 years at Florida State, she had a broad range of administrative duties, including serving as a member of the Executive Management Team which determined and implemented policy decisions for a 19-sport, $50 million intercollegiate program. She had directly supervised three sports programs - men's and women's basketball and women's soccer - and monitored Title IX compliance. Other areas included executive-level staffing; day-to-day departmental operations; liaison with the trademark licensing program; and oversight for marketing, media and public relations, and radio and television contracts.

In construction, she facilitated FSU's $6 million state-of-the-art soccer and softball stadium and its $10 million men's and women's basketball training center. She oversaw a project that showcased the history of athletics at FSU as part of a $100 million facilities improvement plan. Her initial responsibilities as associate director of athletics at FSU included oversight of men's and women's tennis, swimming & diving and softball. Record also held the designation of senior woman administrator.

At Virginia, she supervised all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the department and specialized in external operations. She implemented marketing and promotional strategies for all 26 sports programs as associate director of athletics for external operations. She was the executive staff member of a capital campaign team created to raise $50 million. She came up through the ranks at Virginia, where she earned her bachelor's degree, starting out as a sports information intern who was progressively promoted in the department to associate director of athletics for administration.

As a consultant with ISP, Record has provided marketing expertise in the area of athletics sports signage, including videoboards, scorer's tables and other digital signage. She has also coordinated purchase and installation between vendor, institution and ISP. A native of Charlottesville, she graduated form Virginia and earned the M.S. degree in sports management from Florida State. She has two sons - Kyle, 21, a 3rd year student at the University of Virginia, and Josh, 16, a sophomore at Leon High School in Tallahassee, Fla.

Within the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), Record has served on both the executive committee and the Director's Cup Committee. Within the NCAA, she served on the Women's Soccer Committee and the Regional Soccer Committee.

At UNCG, the athletics director reports to the chancellor and is a member of the chancellor's executive staff. In the new job, Record will need to develop a strategic plan that will:

• Develop a larger, more comprehensive role for UNCG athletics within the university and the community and as a leader in the Southern Conference;
• Address the role of maintaining student welfare and academic success while demanding best efforts in being a winning team and a winning university;
• Develop, motivate, and manage a high caliber team of coaches and staff that supports the student athlete;
• Create an expectation to post a winning season;
• Develop a compensation incentive plan that supports winning;
• Develop fundraising strategies to support facility and scholarship needs, and function as the key fundraiser, using the University Development office and coaches as key team members;
• Be highly visible among constituents by acting as the key spokesperson in public relations.
• Develop a public relations and communications plan that will improve visibility and spirit among constituents, demonstrated by sell-out crowds at games, broad media coverage and university-community pride; and
• Prioritize critical physical needs, such as a field house to serve as the home for academic study, offices for coaches and staff and a weight room.

 UNCG is a member of the Southern Conference and has played in Division I of the NCAA since 1991. The university has created a tradition of excellence in its Division I athletic programs. Its successes include 24 NCAA Championship team appearances, 25 NCAA Championship individual appearances, nine all-American Awards, 14 Academic All-America Awards, 41 conference regular season championships and 28 conference tournament championships.

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