The American Athletic Conference

PROUDLY THE AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

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American Athletic Conference Football ...... 2 Commissioner Mike Aresco ...... 3 Conference Staff ...... 4-7 15 Park Row West • Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Switchboard - 401.244-3278 • Communications - 401.453.0660 Future Membership ...... 8 www.TheAmerican.org Bowl Championship Series ...... 9 American Bowl Lineup ...... 10 American Athletic Conference Staff National Bowl Calendar ...... 11 Commissioner ...... Mike Aresco American Athletic Conference Notebook ...... 12-13 Senior Associate Commissioner (Football & Marketing) ...... Nick Carparelli, Jr. Officiating Performance Standards ...... 14 Senior Associate Commissioner (Administration) ...... Donna DeMarco Egan Senior Associate Commissioner (Men’s Basketball) ...... Paul Brazeau Instant Replay ...... 15 Senior Associate Commissioner (Broadcasting & Digital Content) ...... Tom Odjakjian The American On Television ...... 16-17 Chief Financial Officer ...... John Larson 2013 Nonconference Opponents...... 18-20 Associate Commissioner (Compliance and SWA Liaison) ...... Jennifer Condaras Associate Commissioner (Women’s Basketball) ...... Danielle Donehew Associate Commissioner (Olympic Sports) ...... James Siedliski The Teams Assistant Commissioner (Women’s Basketball Officiating) ...... Barbara Jacobs UCF Knights ...... 21-26 Senior Director of Digital Media ...... Mark Hodgkin School Quick Facts ...... 21 Director of Business Affairs ...... Sue Eaton Storylines & Schedule ...... 22 Director of Communications ...... Sara Naggar Director of Communications ...... Chuck Sullivan Coaching Staff ...... 23 Director of Compliance ...... Kenny Schank Coaching Records ...... 24 Director of Football & Video Administration ...... Michael Costa 2012 Statistics & Results ...... 25 Director of Men’s Basketball Operations ...... Shawn Murphy Director of Sport Administration ...... Kristen Brown Year-By-Year Results ...... 26 Director of Sport Administration ...... Bobby Weygand Cincinnati Bearcats ...... 27-32 Assistant Director of Broadcast Scheduling ...... Michael Coyne UConn Huskies ...... 33-38 Assistant Director of Sport Administration ...... Patrick Colbert Houston Cougars ...... 39-44 Coordinator of Football Officiating ...... Terry McAulay Branding and Event Coordinator ...... Catherine Carmignani Louisville Cardinals ...... 45-50 Digital Communications Coordinator...... Jamie Corun Memphis Tigers ...... 51-56 Assistant to the Commissioner ...... Lisa Zanecchia Rutgers Scarlet Knights ...... 57-62 Executive Administrative Assistant ...... Lois DeBlois USF Bulls ...... 63-68 Administrative Assistant ...... Wanda Factor Administrative Assistant ...... Linda Yates SMU Mustangs ...... 69-74 Receptionist ...... Kathy Kirkpatrick Temple Owls...... 75-80 Communications Assistant ...... Megan Erbes Communications Assistant ...... Jordan Ozer Digital Network Assistant ...... Allison White

American Athletic Confrence Almanac Series Results ...... 82-84 Credits National Award Winners ...... 85-89 Editor: Chuck Sullivan All-Time Polls ...... 90-100 All-Time Bowl Appearances ...... 101 Editorial Assistance: Sara Naggar, Megan Erbes, Jordan Ozer Composite Bowl Won-Loss Records ...... 102 Printing: Charles Guillette - Colonial Lithograph, Inc. National Bowl Results ...... 103-107 Attleboro, Mass.

Photography: Ben Solomon, Associated Press, J. Meric, Bruce American Athletic Conference Media Services ...... 108 Schwartzman and member school communications Media Relations Directory ...... IBC offices. Cover photo by Ben Solomon.

Special Thanks: The American Athletic Conference would like to thank the athletics communications departments of its member schools for their valuable assistance and cooperation in producing this publication.

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Not entirely unlike the which will give the conference unprecedented tion of American teams after the conference’s nation that provides its national exposure. The football portion of the BCS representative is determined. The Atlantic namesake, the American contract, which begins in the 2014 season, Coast Conference will provide the opposition Athletic Conference calls for nearly 90 percent of conference-con- for the Russell Athletic Bowl, which is played in was born from an ideal trolled games on national broadcast or national Orlando, Fla. in which members with cable platforms. The first American Athletic The American also is a partner with the ambitious goals are pro- Conference Football Championship, which will Belk Bowl in Charlotte, N.C. Played in Bank of vided with the means to be played in 2015, will be carried either on ABC America Stadium, the Belk Bowl will select its succeed in their quests or ESPN on Championship Saturday. American Athletic Conference participant after for excellence. In men’s basketball, the new television deal the Russell Athletic Bowl with the ACC again With roots that extend calls for all conference-controlled games to providing the opponent. to three conferences, be televised, with more than 63 percent slot- The American and the Big 12 conferences the American Athletic Conference member- ted for national broadcast or national cable partner for the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at ship in 2013 – its debut season – consists of 10 – a minimum of 107 games. The entire postsea- Yankee Stadium in New York City. In the event institutions: the University of Central Florida, son tournament will be televised, including the that the Big 12 is unable to send an eligible team the University of Cincinnati, the University of championship game, which will be either on to the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Notre Dame Connecticut, the University of Houston, the ABC or ESPN. Sixty percent of the American’s could step in as the American team’s opponent. University of Louisville, the University of women’s basketball games will be carried on An American representative will face either Memphis, Rutgers University, Southern either national cable, regional sports networks an opponent from the Southeastern Conference Methodist University, the University of South or ESPN3. or the Conference USA champion as part of Florida and Temple University. American Athletic Conference teams will arrangements with the BBVA Compass Bowl In 2014-15, East Carolina University, Tulane have access to the pinnacle of college foot- in Birmingham, Ala., and the AutoZone Liberty University and the University of Tulsa come ball’s postseason structure, both in the coming Bowl in Memphis. aboard. The 2015-16 season sees the U.S. Naval season and beyond. In 2013-14, the league The league also holds a partnership with the Academy join the ranks in football only. champion will receive an automatic bid for Beef ‘O’Brady’s Bowl at Tropicana Field in St. The American, which operated as the Big East the final edition of the Bowl Championship Petersburg, Fla. The Beef ‘O’Brady’s Bowl pairs Conference from 1979 to 2013, will immediately Series, including a spot in the VIZIO National the American representative against an oppo- take a place at the forefront of Division I athlet- Championship Game if it is ranked No. 1 or No. 2 nent from Conference USA. ics, with schools that have played in a combined in the final BCS standings. Moving forward, The The postseason lineup gives American five Bowl Championship Series games, won four American champion would be chosen for the Athletic Conference teams access to at least NCAA men’s basketball titles since 1999, and College Football Playoff semifinals if it is among six postseason games. won eight NCAA women’s basketball champion- the top four teams following the regular season. The American Athletic Conference adminis- ships since 1995. Otherwise, the league would place its champion ters to its membership from a state-of-the-art Among the league’s 2013 members, seven of in either the Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl or Peach office located in Providence, R.I. The location The American’s 10 football teams have been Bowl if it is ranked higher than the champi- of the conference headquarters – just steps ranked in the top 13 in the BCS since 2006. Eight ons of Conference USA, the Mid-American from the city’s Amtrak station and 10 minutes of the 10 teams have been in the BCS top 25 in Conference, the Mountain West Conference from T.F. Green International Airport – gives the that span. The 2013-14 membership will also and the Sun Belt Conference. conference easy access to its member schools. include the most recent NCAA men’s basketball The American has additional partnerships The conference headquarters is equipped (Louisville) and women’s basketball (UConn) with a number of bowl games that match confer- with a complete video production studio and champions. ence teams against opponents from the Atlantic small- and large-scale meeting rooms to accom- The 2013 season will mark the final year of Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the modate the many coaches’ and administrators’ a six-year arrangement with ESPN that gives Southeastern Conference and Conference USA. meetings held on-site each year. The American national exposure on ABC televi- The Russell Athletic Bowl has the first selec- sion and the ESPN family of networks. ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC will carry a minimum of 19 American home football games each season. Championship Week in December includes three American games on either ABC, ESPN or ESPN2. At least four American games are featured on ESPN’s Thursday-night package. In addition, ESPN Regional Television will continue to produce and distribute its Game of the Week package to a nationally syndicated audience, reaching more than 30 million homes. Most of these games also will be available as part of the ESPN GamePlan subscription ser- vice. Finally, a minimum of five home games will be carried on ESPNU. Following the 2013 football season, the American Athletic Conference enters new television partnerships with ESPN and CBS Sports

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Mike Aresco Commissioner Mike Aresco, one of the most influential lead- was the spearheading of expansion efforts, tiple new media rights ers in sports television and collegiate sports, which resulted in the addition of Tulane for CBS, CBS Sports was named Commissioner of the Big East University and the University of Tulsa and the Network and CBS Conference on August 14, 2012, and has over- transition to membership in all sports for East Interactive. He forged seen the successful rebranding of the league as Carolina University, which was originally admit- numerous basketball the American Athletic Conference. ted to the league for football only; the planning agreements with major In his first year as commissioner, Aresco for a conference digital network; successful conferences, including has overseen a strategic reinvention of the negotiations for the 2014 men’s and women’s the Big East, ACC, Big Conference which will keep The American at basketball championships at FedEx Forum in Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12. Aresco recently negoti- the forefront of Division I college athletics. Memphis, Tenn., and Mohegan Sun Arena in ated 10-year extensions of the Army-Navy and By the 2015-16 academic year, the American Uncasville, Conn., respectively; and the launch- Notre Dame-Navy football rivalries. Athletic Conference will include 11 all-sports ing of a brand marketing campaign. He is cur- Aresco was the creator and executive pro- members and Navy as a football-playing mem- rently working on the conference’s future bowl ducer of The Tony Barnhart Show, the criti- ber. The Conference will launch a football lineup. cally- acclaimed college football show, as well championship game for the first time in 2015 Aresco came to the conference from CBS as Courtside with Seth Davis, a highly-regarded and is the first league to explore staging its own Sports where he was Executive Vice President, weekly show devoted to college basketball, postseason bowl game. Programming. He was responsible for all col- both of which air on the CBS Sports Network. Aresco’s first months were marked by his suc- lege sports programming for CBS Sports and In 2004, he was appointed by the late NCAA cessful efforts to ensure the Conference’s place CBS Sports Network. Aresco oversaw the President Myles Brand to the Basketball within the College Football Playoff – the new acquisition and management of CBS Sports Partnership, a select panel whose mission was system that will determine the national cham- college properties, including the NCAA Men’s to explore ways to improve and promote col- pion, beginning in 2014. Aresco was instrumen- Basketball Championship, regular-season college basketball. He is a charter member of the tal in securing the arrangement that will put lege basketball and football, conference basket- steering committee of the Columbia University/ the American Athletic Conference champion ball championship games, football bowl games New York City Chapter of the National Football in a New Year’s Day system bowl if it is the and other programming. His responsibilities Foundation and serves on the board of the highest-ranked team among the champions of included game selection and scheduling, day- National Sports Marketing Network. five conferences. to-day operations, contract negotiations, iden- Aresco joined CBS Sports from ESPN where In the wake of the changes created by college tification of future acquisitions, development he was responsible for overseeing the acquisi- sports realignment, Aresco moved quickly to of programming strategies and coordination of tion, scheduling and development of long-term solidify the conference, leading negotiations new media and marketing initiatives. strategies for all ESPN college sports proper- that resulted in the most favorable financial Aresco played an integral role in the land- ties. Earlier in his tenure at ESPN, he was terms for the conference’s football schools, mark deal that created the CBS Sports-Turner responsible for programming a wide variety of after the withdrawal of the non-football-playing Broadcasting partnership, which resulted in sports properties, including College Football schools, who were referred to unofficially as the acquisition of the NCAA Men’s Division I Association, Big 10, and Pac-10 college foot- the Catholic 7. Basketball Championship rights through 2024. ball, NCAA events, including early rounds of He simultaneously led the negotiations that He managed the complex 14-year agreement the NCAA basketball tournament, the College resulted in television contracts with ESPN that provides expanded national broadcast and World Series and various professional sports and CBS Sports, which will give the American cable coverage of the NCAA basketball cham- events, including thoroughbred racing, Top Athletic Conference unprecedented national pionship. Aresco also was instrumental in Rank Boxing, CFL football, Australian Rules exposure with the two industry leaders in sports the CBS Television Network’s groundbreaking Football, rodeo and yachting. He was the archi- television. bundled rights agreement with the NCAA which tect of ESPN’s signature Thursday night college Aresco then quickly and successfully orga- granted CBS exclusive rights to the NCAA football series and helped develop ESPN’s Bowl nized the process whereby the conference was Tournament from 2003 through 2010. The 2010 Week. He joined ESPN in 1984 as Counsel and renamed the American Athletic Conference – a NCAA Championship won a Sports Emmy in was named Assistant General Counsel in 1988 name that was immediately accepted in the the Outstanding Playoff Coverage category. before moving to the programming department. college landscape – and he also oversaw the Aresco also played a key role in negotiating Aresco is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts process that resulted in the new conference’s NCAA marketing agreements and in creating a University (B.A., magna cum laude, history), popular graphic identity. partnership with IMG and the NCAA to assist in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at He has also successfully worked with the acquiring new NCAA corporate sponsors. He Tufts (M.A., international relations), where he conference schools to arrive at an equitable also was a significant contributor in the devel- held a John Moors Cabot Scholarship, and the distribution of existing revenue for the current opment of new media platforms for the NCAA University of Connecticut Law School (J.D.). He and new conference institutions, bringing about Championship, including March Madness on practiced law privately in Hartford, Conn., for a period of cohesiveness that is unprecedented Demand, a highly successful streaming plat- several years. in the league’s history. He has restructured the form. Aresco and his wife, Sharon, have two adult conference office staff to maximize efficiency In 2008, Aresco negotiated a historic 15-year sons, Matthew, an Emmy-nominated television and better serve the needs of the membership. agreement with the Southeastern Conference producer who owns a production company in Among his other significant accomplishments to televise the league’s football and basketball Connecticut, and Brett, an aspiring actor who on behalf of the American Athletic Conference games. The agreement also provided mul- lives in New York City.

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Nick Carparelli, Jr. Donna DeMarco Egan Senior Associate Commissioner Senior Associate Commissioner (Football & Marketing) (Administration)

Nick Carparelli joined the conference staff in England Patriots during Donna DeMarco 2002 as an associate commissioner and was their first Super Bowl Egan has been part of promoted to his current position in 2009. He is championship season. the conference staff the conference’s primary football administrator, Working with legend- since 1988 and has been Senior Associate overseeing operations, officiating, bowl rela- ary head coach Bill Commissioner for tionships, television and scheduling. Belichick, Carparelli coordinated team travel, Administration since Carparelli also serves as the conference’s directed the club’s summer training camp, was 2009. liaison with the league’s sponsorship and mar- involved with player personnel and supervised She is responsible for keting partners. gameday operations. He also coordinated all the daily management During his tenure with the conference, aspects of the Patriots’ participation in Super of the conference office and represents and Carparelli has become one of the foremost Bowl XXXVI. assists the commissioner with overall admin- administrators in college football. He serves as Before working for the Patriots, Carparelli istration and management of league matters. chair of the NCAA Football Issues Committee was a football administrator at the University of Before taking on her current role, DeMarco had been Associate Commissioner for and its postseason bowl licensing subcommit- Notre Dame, where he coordinated all recruit- Women’s Basketball from 2006-09 and was tee and formerly served on the NCAA Rules ing efforts, created travel and gameday itiner- Associate Commissioner for Olympic Sports Committee. aries and oversaw NCAA football compliance from 1996-2006. She began her career as an Carparelli’s annual work with constructing the matters. He spent two years as a graduate administrative assistant for Public Relations conference schedule has helped contribute to assistant coach at Syracuse University, where & Championships in 1988 before being pro- some of the highest-rated telecasts in college he helped the Orange to a win against Colorado moted to Director of Championship Operations football history. in the 1993 Fiesta Bowl. Between Notre Dame and subsequently Assistant Commissioner for He was instrumental in the assembly of the and Syracuse, Carparelli assisted in the recruit- Championships. conference’s current bowl structure — its most ment of several players who moved on to the DeMarco is a 1987 graduate of the University of Connecticut with a bachelor’s degree in lucrative and successful group of partnerships NFL, including Donovan McNabb and Justin communications and journalism. in league history — and led the way in the cre- Tuck. ation of the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Originally from Cheshire, Conn., Carparelli Tom Odjakjian Stadium. He also helped establish the Beef ‘O’ is a 1990 graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Senior Associate Commissioner Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla. University with a bachelor’s degree in mechani- (Broadcasting & Digital Content) Before coming to the conference, Carparelli cal engineering. He added a master’s degree had been the director of operations for the New from Syracuse in 1994. Tom Odjakjian has served as Associate Commissioner at the John Larson conference since 1995. Chief Financial Officer His primary responsibilities include televi- John Larson joined sion negotiations for the conference staff as all sports, football tele- Interim Chief Financial vision scheduling and Officer in February 2013 assembly of the annual and was appointed on men’s basketball schedule. a full-time basis in July. Odjakjian was promoted to his current posi- Larson, who holds tion in 2013. CPA and CCM des- Before coming to the conference office, ignations, oversees Odjakjian served various roles at ESPN from all accounting and 1981-94, including as the director of college financial policies for the American Athletic sports. He was responsible for negotiation, Conference. acquisition, scheduling and budget supervision Larson has an extensive background in trea- for the network’s collegiate sports program- sury operations and accounting experience in ming. the financial services, insurance and public Odjakjian also served as Associate accounting industries. Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Larson holds an undergraduate degree in Conference and Assistant Sports Information economics from Georgetown University and Director at Princeton University. earned a master’s degree in accounting from Odjakjian is a 1976 graduate of Lafayette with the University of Hartford. a degree in economics and business.

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Paul Brazeau Jennifer Condaras Terry McAulay Senior Associate Commissioner Associate Commissioner Coordinator of Football Officiating (Men’s Basketball) (Compliance)

Paul Brazeau joined the conference staff in Jennifer Condaras Terry McAulay has 2012 as Senior Associate Commissioner for was promoted been the conference’s Men’s Basketball. to her current Coordinator of Football Brazeau is the lead administrator for all facets role as Associate Officiating since 2008. of the league’s men’s basketball operations, Commissioner for He is responsible for including direct involvement with coaches, Compliance in 2012. She the development, train- administrators, game officials, television part- had been an Assistant ing, recruitment and ners and sponsors. Commissioner since evaluation of football Before joining the conference, Brazeau served she joined the confer- officials within the con- as Vice President of Basketball Operations for ence in 2006. ference. the National Basketball Association. He worked Condaras’ responsibilities include coordina- McAulay has served as an NFL referee since with the NBA for more than a decade, oversee- tion and administration of the conference’s 2001 and he has worked five conference cham- ing game operations, scheduling, playing rules, day-to-day compliance services with member pionship games and two Super Bowls (XXXIX conduct and discipline. institutions. She provides interpretative sup- and XLIII). He was a side judge for four years Brazeau was the head men’s basketball port and rules education and is a liaison to the before becoming a referee. coach at Hartford from 1992-2000 and has been Senior Woman Administrators Committee. Before working at the NFL, McAulay was a as assistant at Ohio State and Boston College. Before joining the conference staff, Condaras referee with the Atlantic Coast Conference and A native of North Adams, Mass., Brazeau had served as Director of Compliance at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. His col- earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston Georgia Tech from 2001-05. She joined the lege officiating career began in 1989. College in 1981 and added a master’s degree Yellow Jacket staff as an assistant director in While working for the ACC, McAulay was the from that institution in 1988. 1999. referee for the 1998 BCS Championship Game A native of Charleston, W.Va., Condaras which was played at the Orange Bowl in Miami. earned a bachelor’s degree in business admin- McAulay earned a bachelor’s degree from istration and a master’s degree in sport man- LSU in 1981 and master’s degree from Johns agement from West Virginia University. Hopkins in 1989.

Danielle Donehew James Siedliski Michael Costa Associate Commissioner Associate Commissioner Director of Football & (Women’s Basketball) (Olympic Sports) Video Administration

Danielle Donehew has James Siedliski was Michael Costa joined served as the conference’s promoted to his current the full-time confer- Associate Commissioner position of Associate ence staff in 2011 as for Women’s Basketball Commissioner for Assistant Director since 2009. Olympic Sports in of Football & Video Donehew oversees 2006. He serves as Administration and was all aspects of women’s the league’s primary promoted to his current basketball operations, Olympic sports admin- position in 2013. including television, istrator, overseeing Costa assists in all scheduling, brand- management and oper- football administrative ing and messaging, and management of the ations of the conference’s 21 Olympic sport tasks and coordinates the conference’s football conference championship. She is the primary programs. video operations. liaison between the conference and member Siedliski has been a member of the NCAA Costa spent the 2010-11 season as the confer- institutions in women’s basketball matters. Divsion I Men’s Lacrosse Committee for the ence’s football and video administration assis- Before coming to the conference, Donehew past two years and will chair the committee tant. had been Executive Vice President of the in 2013. Before coming to the conference, Costa WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, where she was Siedliski came to the conference in 1998 served as a football game day operations intern involved with all areas of the franchise’s opera- as Director of Sport Administration and was with the Atlantic Coast Conference and assist- tions. She also spent seven years in vari- promoted to Assistant Commissioner for Sport ed with the South Florida Host Committee for ous capacities at the University of Tennessee, Administration in 2000. Before coming to the Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. most recently as Assistant Athletic Director for conference, Siedliski had been Executive Originally from Lynchburg, Va., Costa is a Women’s Basketball. Director of the New Jersey Association of USA graduate of Guilford College and holds a mas- Donehew is a graduate of Georgia Tech, Track & Field. ter’s degree in sports management from Florida where she was a member of the Yellow Jacket Siedliski is a 1989 graduate of Rutgers State University. basketball team. University.

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Mark Hodgkin Barbara Jacobs Kenny Schank Director of Digital Media Assistant Commissioner, Director of Compliance Women’s Basketball Officiating Joined Conference Staff: 2008 Mark Hodgkin joined Joined Conference Staff: 1995 the conference staff in 2009 as Director of Internet Services. He was named Senior Director of Digital Media in 2013. Hodgkin is responsible for the conference’s new media efforts, including the official website, social media Susan Eaton Shawn Murphy platforms and online marketing. He also assists Director of Business Affairs Director of in the management of The American’s Digital Men’s Basketball Operations Joined Conference Staff: 1991 Network. Joined Conference Staff: 2001 Hodgkin came to the conference from Boston College, where he served as an Athletic Marketing and Media Relations Assistant. He also previously served as Director of Marketing at Bryant University. Hodgkin is a 2006 graduate of the University of Texas. He added a master’s degree from Bryant University in 2008. Hodgkin is active with the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators and with the Sports Video Group. He is also on Sara Naggar Bobby Weygand the planning board of the Collegiate Athletics Director of Communications Director of Sport Administration Internet/Digital Association Joined Conference Staff: 2010 Joined Conference Staff: 2004

Chuck Sullivan Director of Communications

Chuck Sullivan was named Director of Communications at the conference in August 2007. He serves as the primary external rela- Kristen Brown Michael Coyne tions contact for foot- Director of Sport Administration Assistant Director ball and men’s basket- of Broadcast Scheduling Joined Conference Staff: 2010 ball and is the media Joined Conference Staff: 2006 relations coordinator for the conference’s annual baseball championship. Sullivan served as Director of Athletic Communications at Harvard from 2003-07, where he managed the external and internal communications efforts for the nation’s largest intercollegiate athletics program. Sullivan also served as Assistant Director of Athletics for Communications at Bryant from 1999-2003. He was Sports Information Director Patrick Colbert Catherine Carmignani Assistant Director Branding & Event Coordinator at the UMass Boston from 1995-99 and served of Sport Administration as an Athletic Communications Assistant at Joined Conference Staff: 2012 Princeton from 1993-95. Joined Conference Staff: 2012 Sullivan is a 1993 graduate of Boston University with a degree in broadcasting and film.

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Jamie Corun Lisa Zanecchia Lois DeBlois Digital Communications Assistant to the Commissioner Senior Administrative Assistant Coordinator for Basketball & Administration Joined Conference Staff: 1982 Joined Conference Staff: 2012 Joined Conference Staff: 1991

Megan Erbes Jordan Ozer Allison White Communications Assistant Communications Assistant Digital Network Assistant

Joined Conference Staff: 2013 Joined Conference Staff: 2013 Joined Conference Staff: 2013

Wanda Factor Linda Yates Kathy Kirkpatrick Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant Receptionist

Joined Conference Staff: 1999 Joined Conference Staff: 2002 Joined Conference Staff: 1990

American Athletic Conference Headquarters

The American Athletic Conference adminis- ters to its membership from a state-of-the-art office located in Providence, Rhode Island. The location of the conference headquarters — sit- uated just steps from the city’s Amtrak station and 10 minutes from T.F. Green International Airport — gives the conference easy access to its member schools and a direct connection to all of the major cities in the Northeast. The conference has been in its current location since 2010. The office is equipped with a complete video production studio, and small- and large-scale meeting rooms to easily accommodate the many coaches’ and administrators’ meetings held on-site each year.

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Future Membership By the 2015-16 academic year, the American Athletic Conference will consist of 12 institutions spanning 10 states.

University of University of University of Central Florida Cincinnati Connecticut Orlando, Fla. Cincinnati, Ohio Storrs, Conn.

East Carolina University of University of University Houston Memphis Greenville, N.C. Houston, Texas Memphis, Tenn.

United States University of South Southern Methodist Naval Academy Florida University Annapolis, Md. Tampa, Fla. Dallas, Texas

Temple University Tulane University University of Philadelphia, Pa. New Orleans, La. Tulsa Tulsa, Okla.

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