I am pleased to share that Virginia Wesleyan University has recruited
one of the most experienced and respected athletic administrators in the
NCAA Division III to serve as the successor to Joanne Renn, our
retiring Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Tina
Hill, who is currently in her 10th year as athletics director at
Randolph College and also chair of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference
(ODAC) Board of Directors, will join the Marlin family this summer as
Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. In this role, she will
also serve as a member of the President's Cabinet.
Tina has
spent the past 28 years in the field of NCAA Division III athletics. In
addition to Randolph, she has worked at Cornell College, California
Lutheran University, and Elizabethtown College. As the Randolph College
athletics director, Tina coordinates the daily operations and long-term
objectives of the school’s 19-sport intercollegiate athletics program.
Prior
to Randolph, she served for five years as the director of athletics at
Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. As the college’s first full-time
athletics director, she was responsible for the complete administration
of 17 NCAA varsity sports and the intramural program. She served as the
associate director of athletics at California Lutheran University from
1997-2002, assisting with the administration of the university’s
15-sport athletics program. She worked at Elizabethtown College in
Pennsylvania from 1990-1997, beginning her career as an intern before
eventually serving as the associate director of athletics and as a staff
instructor in physical education during her final four years at the
college.
Tina received her B.S. in physical education from the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and her M.S. in sports management
from the University of Richmond. As an undergraduate at
Wisconsin-Stevens Point, she was a two-time, first-team, all-conference
volleyball player and earned academic honors including The Chancellor's
Leadership Award, Outstanding Senior Student and Outstanding Female
Athlete Award.
She is a member of the National Association of
Collegiate Directors of Athletics and has served on various NCAA and
conference committees—including a term as the chair of the NCAA Division
III Women’s Volleyball Committee. She currently serves on the NCAA
Division III Financial Aid Committee and, as I mentioned earlier, as
chair of the ODAC Board of Directors.
I wish to thank Mort Gamble
(Senior Vice President), David Black (Executive-in-Residence), and
Joanne Renn for their assistance with this important search. With 22
sports and a distinguished record of academic and athletic achievements
by our students, Virginia Wesleyan looks forward, under Tina's
leadership, to building on a prominent list of athletic successes and
facility improvements in recent years. Committed to the excellent
tradition of Division III student-athletes on campus and within the
ODAC, we welcome Tina as our newest Marlin and an accomplished
professional in this significant area of campus life.
