Fresno State Athletics
Carrie Coll Named Senior Associate AD
11/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | General
Nov. 4, 2015
FRESNO, Calif. - Director of Athletics Jim Bartko announced Monday that Carrie Coll has been hired as the new Senior Associate Athletics Director for Sport Services for Fresno State Athletics.
Coll brings 21 years of extensive experience in leadership positions with her to Fresno State. She most recently enjoyed a 14-year tenure in the Mountain West office, the last 10 years as Associate Commissioner for Championships when she served as a member of the senior staff participating in development of strategic initiatives, staff management and promotion of the league.
"Finding an individual with the expertise that Carrie Coll has will have an immediate impact on the entire department and enhance our student-athlete experience," Bartko said. "Her time in the Mountain West office, managing numerous conference championships and her NCAA familiarity make her a valued member of our senior staff."
In her role with the Bulldogs, Coll will be primarily responsible for working with all facets of administration within the athletic department. She'll serve as the athletics department chief equity officer and Senior Woman Administrator to the NCAA and MW.
"I am really looking forward to joining the Bulldog team," Coll said. "I will be a champion of the student-athletes and work hard to provide them with an experience that provides a foundation for future life successes. I am grateful to Jim Bartko and Steve Robertello for this opportunity and can't wait to do great things with the student-athletes, coaches, campus and community at Fresno State."
Coll will also have department oversight of sports medicine, be involved in student-athlete initiatives as well as serving as a sport administrator for multiple sport programs providing leadership with goal setting, performance management and budget planning and monitoring.
At the Mountain West, Coll led the governance process and league policy creation and implementation with the Senior Woman Administrators, Joint Council and Conference office staff. She also supervised 16 regular-season MW sponsored sports with a focus on short and long-range planning for competitive improvement, forecasted and managed departmental budgets and ensured gender equity in decision-making processes concerning championship sites and operations.
"Carrie combines a wealth of national contacts with a tremendous knowledge of intercollegiate athletics and vast experiences to deliver a very valuable administrator," Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said. "We are pleased that she will transfer those skills in support of Fresno State athletics, while simultaneously continuing to advance the Mountain West."
Prior to her 14-year run at the Mountain West from 2002-15, Coll was the Senior Director of Events and Elite Athlete Relations for the United States Figure Skating Association from 1998-2002.
Coll got her start in collegiate athletics as an undergrad at Colorado where she served as a student athletic trainer for the Buffaloes. Upon graduation with her Bachelor of Arts in Kinesiology from Colorado in 1996, she went on to become a certified athletic trainer and received her master's degree in sport management from Kentucky, while working as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the Wildcats.
She has served on the NCAA Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet from 2010-15, including holding the Vice Chair from 2012-15, and is presently on the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Committee. Coll was the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee Chair from 2005-06, on the soccer committee from 2002-06 and on the Division I Women's Golf Committee from 2008-10.
A Danville, Calif. native, Coll was a competitive figure skater growing up. She and her husband, Dermot, have one daughter, Reagan.
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