SAN FRANCISCO – The Pac-12 introduced Thursday that Oregon Deputy Athletic Director and Senior Lady Administrator Lisa Peterson has been named the Convention’s Senior Affiliate Commissioner for Sports activities Administration. Peterson, who will report back to Deputy Commissioner Teresa Gould and start her duties with the Pac-12 on October 17, will serve on the Pac-12 Management Group and be chargeable for the great administration and oversight of the league’s 21 Olympic sports activities.
“We’re ecstatic to have the ability to add somebody of Lisa’s caliber to the Convention workers,” Gould mentioned. “Not solely did we rent a veteran administrator with the entire credentials we have been on the lookout for on this place, we additionally added a valued and beloved member of the Pac-12 household to our crew. Her in depth expertise might be an incredible asset because the Convention continues to raise its service to the membership throughout all sports activities and championships.”
“I’m so grateful to Teresa Gould and George Kliavkoff for the prospect to work for a Convention with a mission that aligns with my values,” Peterson mentioned. “It’s an unbelievable alternative for me, each personally and professionally, and I’m very excited to work intently with so many great folks and contribute to the continued success of the Pac-12. I’m additionally extraordinarily grateful for my time on the College of Oregon and to work for nearly three many years with Rob Mullens, an incredible chief and one that I like and respect significantly.”
Peterson joins the Convention following 11 years on the Senior Management Group at Oregon, which included supervision of a lot of sports activities, together with ladies’s basketball, ladies’s lacrosse, ladies’s soccer, softball, seashore volleyball, ladies’s volleyball and acrobatics and tumbling, along with the executive items of athletic drugs, data know-how and student-athlete growth.
Peterson was a member of the Pac-12 Council, the governing physique tasked with creating insurance policies and procedures for the league’s 21 Olympic sports activities and ladies’s basketball. She served on the Pac-12 ImPACt Management Council, the social outreach initiative for the convention, and was a member of the Pac-12 Variety Mentorship Program Management Group for girls’s volleyball.
Peterson has additionally been engaged on quite a few nationwide committees, together with because the chair of america Olympic and Paralympic Legislative Process Drive, a bunch that introduced new insurance policies supporting nationwide crew athletes into adoption in January 2020. The present vice chair of the Division I Girls’s Basketball Committee, she beforehand served on the Division I Volleyball Committee from 2014-18 and chaired the group the ultimate two years.
Peterson was on the Neighborhood and Inclusion Committee for UO Athletics, was the chief liaison with the Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee and was one of many leaders on all instructional applications and conversations throughout the division and with student-athletes on the subject of social justice. She additionally served because the Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Oregon Athletics.
Final August, Peterson was honored by Sports activities Enterprise Journal as a part of its Sport Changers Class of 2021, which acknowledged 50 ladies in sports activities for his or her management, innovation and impression all through the business.
Previous to becoming a member of the Geese, Peterson spent practically 9 years at Kentucky, working because the Senior Affiliate Athletic Director for Inner Operations for one yr, an Affiliate Athletic Director of Finance for 4 years and an Assistant Athletic Director of Enterprise for 3 years. She additionally served because the Senior Lady Administrator in her last 5 years in Lexington.
Earlier than her time at UK, Peterson labored at Maryland for six years, ending her tenure because the Assistant Athletic Director for Enterprise and Finance. She was at Miami (FL) as an Assistant Athletic Enterprise Supervisor from 1995 to 1996.
A 1994 graduate from St. John’s with a bachelor’s in enterprise administration, Peterson earned her grasp’s in enterprise administration in 1998.
