BATON ROUGE – Ashleigh Clare-Kearney Thigpen, a two-time NCAA Champion and volunteer coach for the LSU Gymnastics team, has been named LSU's associate athletic director for diversity, equity and inclusion, athletics director Scott Woodward announced.
"I am thrilled about Ashleigh's new role within our athletic department," Woodward said. "As a highly decorated student-athlete, a volunteer assistant coach, and as an attorney and law professor at Southern University, she has represented the very best of LSU Athletics, and there is no one more prepared or better qualified to help lead our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.