Executive Director Floyd Keith Resigns to Pursue Other Professional Opportunities
Indianapolis, IN- February, 21, 2013 - Floyd A. Keith will resign the position of executive director of Black Coaches & Administrators (BCA) effective March 14, 2013 to pursue other professional opportunities. Keith will consult with the NCAA Office of Inclusion and Leadership Development and will serve as one of the senior advisors for the DeVos Sports Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida.
“It has been my distinct privilege and honor to have served as executive director for the country’s leading sports advocacy group for minority issues, specifically collegiate sports hiring issues. Upon reflection, my time with BCA translates into 25% of my professional career on promoting the mission of BCA,” Keith stated.
“We are appreciative of Floyd’s dedication and passionate service to BCA. We thank him for his leadership and wish him nothing but the best as he pursues new professional endeavors.” stated BCA President of the Board, Carol Owens.
Keith said the following regarding his departure, “I believe we have advanced the opportunities for coaches and administrators of color and have made a difference in the areas of hiring equity; professional development and advancement; participation; post graduate scholarships and youth in the past decade. To coin a phrase I often reference from Dr. Richard Lapchick’s repertoire; I believe we (BCA) stood up for justice and did not block its path.”
Floyd has received numerous awards and honors for his dedication of work, including the 2004 Executive Director of the Year recognition by the All-American Football Foundation. During Keith’s 12 year tenure as BCA’s executive director, the membership of the association grew from 172 in 2001 to currently 4,000+. Also, the BCA corporate sponsors expanded from one (1) in 2001 to all-time high of 26. Additionally, Keith was responsible for establishing the BCA’s Hiring Report Card for NCAA football head coaches in 2003 and the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball head coaches hiring process. [U1]
Excited about a new venture, Keith stated, “I have been close to the students in the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program as well as with program Chair, Dr. Richard Lapchick. Having the opportunity to work with women’s rights pioneer Judy Sweet, Dan Guerrero (UCLA AD) and Donna Orender (former WNBA President) as fellow Senior Advisors for DeVos is an honor and unique opportunity. I have also been asked by Dr. Lapchick to play a role with The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport Diversity which publishes the Racial and Gender Report Cards as well as the BCA’s Hiring Report Cards for football and women’s basketball.”
About the Black Coaches & Administrators
The Black Coaches & Administrators (BCA is a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to foster the growth and development of ethnic minorities at all levels of sports both nationally and internationally. The BCA is committed to creating a positive enlightened environment where issues can be examined closely, debated sincerely and resolved honestly. The BCA's focus involves the concerns of its colleagues in professional sports, NCAA (Division I, II, and III), NAIA (Division I and II), junior college and high school levels.
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Professional Development Enhanced
BCA Professional Development Offerings Are Enhanced for 2013
Indianapolis, IN - Black Coaches & Administrators (BCA) announced on October 18, 2012 the decision to conduct a unique professional development and networking symposium in conjunction with the 2013 American Football Association (AFCA) convention, the 2013 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) convention and the 2013 convention of Women Basketball Coaches Association. The sport specific meetings will replace the previously conducted annual BCA convention and expositions.
The new format will allow BCA membership to maximize expenses in attending both their professional organization meetings and the programming offered by the BCA. “As a member-driven organization, it is our desire to be sensitive to the current budget restraints facing coaches and administrators across the country. We believe this format will provide a great opportunity for our association to serve our membership in a beneficial and cost effective manner.” said Floyd Keith, BCA Executive Director.
2013 BCA-AFCA SESSION
Saturday, January 5, 2013
THANK YOU TO THOSE THAT ATTENDED! WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE AFCA IN INDIANAPOLIS - JANUARY, 2014.
2013 BCA-NABC SESSION
Thursday, April 4, 2013
4.30PM-6.30PM (Local Time)
HILTON ATLANTA DOWNTOWN
ROOM 204-207
255 COURTLAND STREET NE
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303
FREE TO REGISTER and ATTEND
REGISTRATION IS OPEN. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
BCA-NABC SESSION AGENDA (Subject to change)
-Welcome and Opening Remarks
Cliff Warren, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Jacksonville University & BCA Board Member
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Keynote PresentationDr. Derrick Gragg, Vice President & Athletic Director, University of Tulsa
-BCA Membership Update
Kennedy D. Wells, Director of Membership Services
-NCAA Enforcement and Regulation Updates
James Garland and Frank Smith, NCAA Enforcement Staff
-BCA Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year Presentation
-CLOSING REMARKS
2013 BCA-WBCA SESSION
Sunday, April 7, 2013
12.30pm-2.30pm (Local Time)
ERNEST N. MORIAL CONVENTION CENTER
ROOM LOCATION TBA
900 CONVENTION CENTER BLVD.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130
FREE TO REGISTER and ATTEND.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
2013 BCA-Minority Opportunities Athletic Association (MOAA) SESSION
(NACDA Convention)
June 12-13, 2013
TIME/DATE/EVENT LOCATION TBA
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Contact BCA office at 1-877-789-1222 or 317-829-5600 for additional information.
BCA Board Member Browne Sanders becomes NCAA Vice President
After three years at the University at Buffalo, Anucha Brown Sanders is moving on to a position with the NCAA. This week, Brown Sanders was named the NCAA's vice president of women's basketball championships.
In her new role, she will be the liason between the NCAA and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the Division I, Division II and Division III women's basketball committees. She will help with "strategic oversight" of the process to determine championship locations.
Brown Sanders was the senior associate athletic director and senior women's administrator at UB. She was the adminstrative supervisor for men's and women's basketball, volleyball, softball, swimming, diving and rowing. She also worked to improve Buffalo's marketing, corporate partnerships and community relations.
"It’s an exciting time for the game of women’s college basketball and I am thrilled and honored to have been selected for the challenge of leading the championships into the next phase of growth and development,” Browne Sanders in the release from the NCAA. “Basketball has provided me with numerous opportunities in my life and I hope to take that experience and build upon it as we enhance the student-athlete experience at all championship levels.”
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David Roach named Director of Athletics at Fordham University
BCA Treasurer appointed to lead Fordham University Athletics
Sept. 26, 2012
New York, N.Y. - After an extensive national search, Fordham University announced today the appointment of David T. Roach as the new director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation. Roach, who saw 75 of his teams win league championships in 22 years as an athletic director and who served as the president of the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors in 2010-2011, will begin his tenure on October 15.
"In David Roach, we have found an athletic director with a demonstrated ability to inspire the best performances from his student-athletes, both on the field and in the classroom," said Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham. "David's approach - giving equal weight to athletics and scholarship - makes him an ideal fit for Fordham. We are confident that our student-athletes will benefit greatly under his leadership."
"I'm extremely excited about joining the Fordham University family," said Roach. "I cannot wait to get to campus and begin working with Father McShane, the University administration, campus community, outstanding coaches and athletic staff to accomplish great things for Fordham student-athletes. I have always admired Fordham's educational mission and the role that intercollegiate athletics plays in accomplishing that mission. I'm honored and humbled to have been selected as Fordham's Director of Athletics."
Roach arrives at Fordham after spending the past eight years as the director of athletics at Colgate University, where he managed the university's programs in physical education, recreation, and competitive athletics for 25 Division I men's and women's teams, as well as intramural and club sports.
During his eight-year tenure at Colgate, the Raiders placed 14 teams in NCAA tournaments and captured 17 Patriot League titles or ECAC championships. Colgate student-athletes earned 18 All-American honors and 34 students were named Academic All-American scholars. In 2010-11, Colgate was No. 1 in NCAA Division I with its 100 percent graduation rate.
While at Colgate, Roach coordinated the development of a new athletic brand and mascot; enhanced Colgate's scoreboards and overall look of its athletic venues; started the Raider Academic Honor Roll honoring student-athletes for academic accomplishments; increased ticket sales for football, hockey, basketball, and lacrosse; increased revenue from corporate sponsorships from $18,000 to more than $200,000 per year; and signed an agreement with Time Warner Cable Sports to televise selected athletic events.
Roach has also been very active in shaping the landscape of intercollegiate athletics, currently serving on the board of directors and as treasurer of the Black Coaches and Administrators (BCA) organization. He has also served as president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) in 2010-2011 and, prior to that, was a member of the NACDA Executive Committee as an officer from 2002-2010. He also served on the NCAA Diversity Leadership Strategic Planning Committee, the NCAA Management Council, the NCAA Championships and Competition Cabinet, the NCAA FCS Football Championship Committee, the joint NCAA OSL Sub Committee with the U.S. Olympic Committee and the National Governing Bodies and as chair of both the NCAA Swimming and Diving Committee and the NCAA Olympic Sports Liaison Committee.
Prior to Colgate, Roach served as the Director of Athletics at Brown University for 14 years. In 2002, Brown's athletics program was honored by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 20 athletics programs in the nation.
Under his tutelage, Brown won seven national championships and 58 Ivy League/Eastern titles with the Bruins appearing in 34 NCAA championships. Seven Brown student-athletes received NCAA or NACDA Post Graduate Scholarships.
Off the playing fields at Brown, Roach created the school's first Student Athlete Advisory Board and implemented new sports marketing/promotions programs, including a new athletic logo and corporate sponsorship program. He helped increase endowment for athletics from $10 million to $45 million and oversaw $16 million in capital improvements.
At both schools, Roach instituted a program where each varsity team adopted a local school. The student-athletes mentor the students at the school, helping guide them academically and help the classroom teacher achieve the set goals for the school year.
Prior to his time as an athletic director, Roach served the head swimming coach at the University of Tennessee from 1986-1990 and at Brown from 1978-1986. At Tennessee, he was named SEC Coach of the Year in 1988 and 1989, coached 26 All-Americans and had a 23-13-1 dual meet record. He helped improved the Volunteers' national recognition by moving the program from 39th to fourth at the NCAA Division I Championship.
As the head coach at Brown, Roach guided the Bruins to a 74-6-1 dual meet record, three Ivy League team championships and two Eastern team titles.
Roach was inducted into the Rhode Island Aquatic Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Brown University Hall of Fame in 1989. In 1985, he was appointed as assistant coach of the United States National Swimming Team which competed at the World University Games in Kobe, Japan.
A native of Waterbury, Conn., Roach received his bachelor's degree from Springfield College in 1971, and earned a master of science degree in physical education from the school in 1972. He was a member of the Springfield College men's varsity swimming team that won three consecutive New England Conference championships, serving as the team's co-captain in 1971.
Roach and his wife, Anne, have three daughters, Elizabeth, Michelle and Alexandra.
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to approximately 14,700 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in Westchester, the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre at Heythrop College in the United Kingdom.
Bernard Muir named Director of Athletics at Stanford
Bernard Muir, director of athletics and recreation services at the University of Delaware, has been selected as Stanford's next Jaquish and Kenninger Director of Athletics. He was appointed to his new position by Provost John Etchemendy.
Muir will begin work in mid August.
"Bernard Muir has a national reputation as a superb athletic administrator," said Etchemendy. "He also has a deep personal understanding of what it means to be a scholar-athlete, performing at the very highest levels both academically and athletically. In Bernard Muir, we are confident we have a leader with the integrity, experience and commitment to ensure that Stanford's athletic legacy continues."
Muir has nearly 25 years of athletic administrative experience at Delaware, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Butler, Auburn and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). He has directed Delaware's athletic program since 2009 and, before that, was director of athletics at Georgetown from 2005 to 2009. As an undergraduate at Brown University, Muir was a four-year letter winner in basketball.
In February 2012, Muir was named to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee. The committee oversees all aspects of NCAA collegiate men's basketball at the Division I level and serves as the selection committee for the NCAA Tournament. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of USA Basketball.
At Delaware, Muir is credited with increasing the competitiveness of Blue Hen varsity sports, helping secure NCAA Division I tournament games on campus and enhancing athletic facilities.
"I'm thrilled to be joining the Stanford community," Muir said. "This is a wonderful opportunity for our family. I'm looking forward to being part of the world-class tradition of excellence that characterizes the student-athlete experience at Stanford."
At Stanford, Muir will succeed Bob Bowlsby, who left Stanford in June to become commissioner of the Big 12 Conference. Patrick Dunkley, deputy director of athletics, has served as interim athletic director since Bowlsby's departure.
The Stanford program Muir will head has won 18 consecutive Directors' Cup trophies as the top overall athletic program in the country. Stanford athletic teams have won at least one national championship annually for the past 36 years, the longest such streak in the nation. Stanford teams have won 103 NCAA Championships, ranking second in the nation. No other school has won more than Stanford's 423 individual national titles. All 35 programs exceed the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate.
The Stanford Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation supports 35 varsity sports as well as campus-wide recreation, fitness and wellness programs. The university employs about 100 coaches and assistants. Ten current coaches have led their teams to one or more NCAA titles.
Muir has earned the respect of collegiate athletic administrators nationwide, including Kevin White, director of athletics at Duke University, who is widely regarded as the dean of athletic directors.
"Simply put, Stanford University made a brilliant hire," White said. "Bernard Muir has already distinguished himself as a truly great leader. Bernard is terribly humble, incomparably intelligent and just drips with integrity. Moreover, Bernard is empathetic to a fault, inordinately task oriented, both clearly adaptable and situational, and ridiculously passionate about the plight of the student-athlete."
Muir was selected after a nationwide search headed by Robert Simoni, the Donald Kennedy Chair in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of biology, and Jeff Wachtel, senior assistant to the president.
"I could not be more delighted that Bernard will join the Stanford family," said Simoni. "He shares every value we have as an institution and that we expect for our athletic program. He also shares our absolute commitment to integrity and a passion to provide our remarkable students with every opportunity for academic and athletic success. It's a great day for the future of Stanford athletics."
Before joining the athletics administration at Georgetown, Muir served as deputy director of athletics/administration and facilities at the University of Notre Dame from 2004 to 2005. He also served at Notre Dame as senior associate athletic director for student welfare and development from 2003 to 2004 and as associate athletic director for student welfare and development from 2000 to 2003.
Muir worked for the NCAA from 1998 to 2000 as director of operations for the Division I men's national basketball championship and from 1992 to 1998 as assistant director of the Division I men's national basketball championship. He began his career in athletics administration as an athletic administrative assistant at Butler University in 1990, and subsequently held positions with Auburn University and Streetball Partners International of Dallas.
In 2007 Muir was named to Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal's "Top 40 Under 40."
Muir earned a bachelor's degree in organizational behavior and management from Brown University in 1990 and a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1992.
Muir and his wife, Liz, have two daughters.
Kate Chelsey, University Communications and Jim Young, Stanford Athletics