Julie Cromer

Julie Cromer is the athletic director at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and is currently serving as a co-chair of the NCAA Division I Transformation Committee.^[1] She is the first female athletics director at Ohio.

Early years[]

Julie Cromer grew up in Southern Missouri.^[2] She received her Bachelor's degree from Missouri State University. She earned a Master's degree in Policy Analysis from Indiana University^[3]

Career[]

She began her career in athletics working for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. She later served as assistant athletic director at Wright State University. She left Wright State to begin a ten year duration at the NCAA where she served as director of academic and membership affairs. She then served as executive associate athletics director and SWA at Indiana University for four years and the senior deputy athletics director at the University of Arkansas for six years.^[3]

Ohio[]

On August 31, 2019, she was hired by Ohio University to become the schools athletic director following Jim Schaus who left to become the Commissioner of the Southern Conference.^[4][5] During her first year, the Ohio Football Team won the Idaho Potato Bowl.^[6] The following year the Ohio Men's Basketball Team won the 2020 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament^[7] and upset ACC regular season champion Virginia Cavaliers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.^[8] This was the school's first tournament win since a sweet sixteen appearance in 2012.^[9]

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