Back to the Big East Newsfeed

Ackerman named to Women Leaders in College Sports Board of Directors

Kansas City, Mo.—Women Leaders in College Sports, the nation’s premier women’s athletic leadership association, has selected Val Ackerman, commissioner of the BIG EAST Conference; Joeleen Akin, associate athletic director, student-athlete development at Georgia Tech; Kelley Kish, director of athletics at Lake Erie College; and Adrianne Swinney, chief operating officer at the University of Connecticut to serve as 2018-2019 board of directors members. Jacqie McWilliams, commissioner of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association will serve as president in 2019-2020.

“Women Leaders continues to be the premier organization promoting the empowerment of women in college athletics,” McWilliams says.