On April 1st, Erika Hanson Barnes’ run as the Arizona Wildcats interim athletic director will come to an end, but her influence on the current student-athletes will likely live on forever.
Barnes, a former softball player at The University of Arizona until 2001, originally came back to her alma mater because she cared so much about the place.
“I’m so blessed to be working here,” she said on her final Sunday as head of the Arizona Athletics department. “The place I love, the place I’m so passionate about. It’s really neat and an easy thing to sell with these student-athletes.