Collegiate Athletic Conferences - On Campus Podcast

On Campus - with CITI Program

Tiffany D. Tucker is the Deputy Director of Athletics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). She is the chief operations officer responsible for the department’s day-to-day operations. She is one of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Influential Black Women in Sports. Tiffany is the 2022 recipient of the NIKE Nell Jackson Executive of the Year Award, the UNCW Kathleen Berkeley Inconvenient Woman Award for her activism on behalf of others and issues of social justice and gender equality, and a nominee for the 2022 WILMA Magazine Women to Watch Award. Tiffany recently partnered with Yahoo Sports and Degree to launch the Bracket Gap Challenge and Gender Equity Initiative. She is a graduate and former women’s basketball player at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a two-time ACC Champion. She received her master’s degree from Hampton University and is a former women’s basketball coach.

Over the past several years, many collegiate athletic conferences have changed their membership structures overall. The realignment of conferences will have financial benefits and impacts for institutions, implications for student-athletes, and a new way of thinking for college administrators. More realignments between the collegiate athletic conferences will likely occur over the coming years.

Learn more about CITI Program: https://about.citiprogram.org/

References:

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/08/07/college-sports-conference-realignment/
• https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/athletics/2023/08/07/conference-reshuffling-bodes-big-time-instability-college-sports
• https://www.chronicle.com/article/conference-realignment-is-sweeping-college-sports-heres-why-it-matters