Duke is promoting Nina King to be the school's next director of athletics, according to Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel.
King, 42, will become the first woman and first person of color to head Duke’s athletic department. She has been with the school since 2008, most recently as senior deputy athletics director overseeing football and women’s basketball, among other duties. She will replace Mike White, who announced in January that he would be retiring from the same position this August.
King was named to Sports Business Journal's Forty Under 40 and Leaders Under 40 in 2018 as an acknowledgment of what she had already accomplished in the college athletics space.