ADMINISTRATOR BIOGRAPHIES Dan Guerrero Gavin Crew Dr. Gene Block Director of Athletics Associate Athletic Director Chancellor 17th Year 3rd Year 11h Year UCLA ‘74 UCLA ‘99 Stanford ‘77

Sixteen years and 30 NCAA Gavin Crew was named Associate Dr. Gene Block became chancellor Championships later, Dan Guerrero’s Athletic Director for Sports and of UCLA in summer 2007, taking mantra of ‘image and substance’ Administration in April 2016. He the helm of a world-class institution has clearly been established at a has spent over a decade with the comprising 37,000 students and level that few others in his profession can approach. At the Bruins, from 2001-2005 and 2008-present. 27,000 faculty and staff, with an annual budget of $3.6 department’s helm when UCLA Athletics became the first to billion. As chief executive officer, he oversees all aspects of 100 NCAA team championships, the Bruins’ current total of Crew oversees eight sports in his role - men’s soccer, women’s the university’s three-part mission of education, research 116 NCAA titles ranks second in the nation. UCLA teams soccer, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s and service. have also finished second 29 times and have totaled 123 track & field (indoor and outdoor) and women’s track & field Top 5 NCAA finishes. (indoor and outdoor). Additionally, he supervises the Camps Previously, Dr. Block served as vice president and provost & Clinics office and serves as tournament director for NCAA, of the University of Virginia, where he also held the Alumni Across all sports, UCLA teams are fixtures in the postseason, Pac-12 and MPSF Championship hosting. Crew is a member Council Thomas Jefferson Professorship in Biology. With with 88% of the Bruin teams in 2017-18 qualifying for NCAA of Athletic Director Dan Guerrero’s senior staff. academic expertise in biological clocks, he conducts research postseason play. The football team has appeared in 13 on the neurobiology of circadian rhythms in higher organisms, bowl games, while the men’s basketball team advanced to In his first stint in the UCLA Athletics Department, he oversaw leading a research lab funded by the National Institutes of consecutive Final Fours from 2006-08 and has made six trips the expansion of the Camps & Clinics office to a year-round Health (NIH). From 1991 to 2002, he directed the National to the Sweet 16. The program has also won 69 conference business operation, managing the growing demand for athletic Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center for championships in 16 different sports, produced over 700 All- camp operations in Westwood. From 2005-2008, Crew worked Biological Timing. In 1997, he was named a fellow of the Americans and featured 10 Honda Award winners, including with Excel Sports Officiating to help train and work with officials, American Association for the Advancement of Science. He two honorees in 2017-18 and the 2003-04 Collegiate Woman umpires and referees in all sports and at all levels. Upon his has invented a number of devices and holds a patent for a Athlete of the Year. In his 16 years at UCLA, the Bruins have return to UCLA in 2008, Crew once again oversaw the camp non-contact respiratory monitor for the prevention of Sudden finished second five times and third four times in the race office and added championship coordinator to his plate. In Infant Death Syndrome. for the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup. In 2017-18, UCLA addition to continuing the growth of the camp operation into recorded a school-record 1,326 points in a close runner-up a $4 million revenue generator for the Athletic Department, Dr. Block joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1978 finish for the Directors’ Cup. he has also executed several major NCAA, Pac-12 and MPSF as an assistant professor of biology. He served as vice provost Championships on campus, including the 2013 NCAA National for research from 1993 to 1998 and then as vice president Guerrero was the first athletic director at the NCAA Division Collegiate Gymnastics Championship, 2013 NCAA National for research and public service until his appointment as vice I level (FBS, FCS and NCAA Division I-AAA) to earn three Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship, 2015 Pac-12 Track & president and provost in 2001. He also headed an NIH graduate NACDA Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year awards Field Championship, 2014 and 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball training program aimed at increasing the number of scientists (2013-14 and 2006-07 at UCLA, 2001-02 at UC Irvine). In 1st/2nd Rounds, 2015 NCAA National Collegiate Men’s Water from underrepresented groups. In 1998, he received the 2017, he was honored by the National Football Foundation Polo Championships, and the 2016 NCAA National Collegiate Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Public Service Award with the John L. Toner Award, becoming the first-ever sitting Women’s Water Polo Championships. for his work with Virginia’s business community. athletics director from the West Coast to receive the honor. He was also selected as a finalist for the Athletic Director of Crew graduated with a degree in Political Science from UCLA A native of Monticello, NY, Dr. Block holds a bachelor’s degree the Year at the 2017 Sports Business Awards. in 1999. in psychology from and a master’s and Ph.D.in psychology from the University of Oregon. He also While success on the playing field with 30 NCAA Championships Originally from Irvine, Calif., Crew lives in the Silver Lake completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, working with in 15 different sports and 29 second-place finishes during his neighborhood with his wife, Cassidy. the late Colin Pittendrigh, “the father of biological timing” and tenure are extraordinary numbers, UCLA’s academic success distinguished biologist and former Stanford President, Donald under Guerrero is equally noteworthy. During the Fall 2017 Kennedy. Dr. Block and his wife, Carol, have two adult children. quarter, a record 341 student-athletes made the Director’s Honor Roll, a number that was surpassed in Winter 2018, when 351 earned that distinction. UCLA’s Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) continue to remain high nation-wide. The UCLA student-athlete GSR is Swimming & Support Staff currently at 86%, and every Bruin team maintained multi-year APR rates of 930 or above, including a school-record seven who achieved perfect scores of 1000. Nationally, Guerrero has extensive experience in committee work at both the NCAA and conference level. Currently, he serves on the Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee, which he chaired the previous two years, and he also Chairs an NCAA Working Group on behalf of the Division 1 Men’s Basketball Rice Commission. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the NABC, the Institute for Sport and Social Justice, and the United States International University Sports Federation, where he also serves as Vice President. As the Michael Teitell Ariel Guldstrand Elle Bertuccelli Simon Greiner Chair of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee in Faculty Athletic Representative Assistant Athletic Trainer Team Manager Team Manager 2009-10, he was involved with the negotiation of the new $10.8 billion, 14-year NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament television package, as well as the decision to expand the

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Built on a firm foundation of academic excellence and superior 2017-18 REVIEW Conference, 17 witnessed at least half its teams participating athletic performance, the Pac-12 Conference renewed in NCAA or other postseason action. The men sent 63 of a its undisputed claim as the Conference of Champions® The Conference’s 12 NCAA titles came in the form of nine possible 101 teams into the postseason (62.4 percent), while in 2017-18. Beyond the courts and fields, the Pac-12’s women’s and three men’s crowns. Six members claimed at the women sent 82 of a possible 130 teams (63.0 percent). accomplishments extend into the classrooms across 12 least one NCAA title and, of the five institutions in the country campuses, and outside its traditional geographic footprint to have won multiples titles, three were from the Pac-12. USC became the first South Division team to capture the Pac-12 into new corners around the world. football title. After the North Division won the Conference’s first STANFORD’s four NCAA titles this year are the most won by six Pac-12 Football Championship Games, the Trojans ended The only conference to win 500 NCAA Championships, the any school, extending its streak of winning an NCAA title to 42 the North Division streak with a 31-28 win over Stanford to Pac-12 once again led the nation in 2017-18 with 12 NCAA years, winning a third-straight championship in men’s soccer, claim their 39th conference crown. The Pac-12 placed nine crowns. This haul adds to an incredible 175 NCAA team titles claiming women’s swimming and diving for the second-straight teams in bowl games, including a pair of teams in the CFP with claimed since 1999-2000 and 317 since 1981-82, the start year in record fashion, winning an All-Pac-12 final in women’s USC in the Cotton Bowl and WASHINGTON in the Fiesta Bowl. of women’s sports sponsorship, an average of over nine per soccer and the women’s tennis crown for the second time in STANFORD running back Bryce Love became the fifth player in year. Even more impressive has been the breadth of the three years. UCLA claimed three national titles, winning the Pac-12 history to rush for 2,000 yards (2,118) and was named Pac-12’s success with championships coming in 28 different women’s gymnastics crown for the first time since 2010 on the Doak Walker Award winner as the nation’s top running men’s and women’s sports. The Pac-12 has led or tied the a pair of perfect 10s, its first-ever beach volleyball title and back. ARIZONA’s Khalil Tate became the first quarterback in nation in NCAA Championships in 52 of the last 58 years, its third men’s water polo crown in four years. Pac-12 history to rush for 1,000 yards (1,411 yards) and set the only exceptions being in 1980-81, 1988-89, 1990-91 USC won a pair of national championships this season, winning an FBS single-game rushing record by a quarterback with and 1995-96 when the Conference finished second, and only its fifth women’s water polo title in a tense All-Pac-12 finale 327 yards vs. Colorado. USC’s Sam Darnold was the No. 3 twice finished third in 1998-99 and 2004-05. ,and the women’s track & field team needed a photo finish overall pick in the NFL Draft by the New York Jets, while UCLA’s Josh Rosen was the No. 10 selection overall by the Arizona For the 13th-consecutive year, the Pac-12 had the most, in the 4x400-meter relay to claim the team national crown, its first since 2001. Cardinals. It marked the third time in Conference history that or tied for the most, NCAA titles of any conference in the two Pac-12 quarterbacks were selected in the first round, and country, winning at least six every year since 2000-01. No A playoff putt sealed the women’s golf crown for ARIZONA, the sixth time ever that multiple quarterbacks from the same other conference has won double-digit NCAA crowns in a its first since 2000; won its second rowing conference were selected in the first round. single year, the Pac-12 doing so 10 times, including a record national championship in three years; and OREGON STATE 14 in 1996-97. fought off six elimination games to win the baseball title, its Pac-12 men’s basketball sent eight teams to postseason third all-time and first in over a decade. play for the fourth time in the past six seasons, with three Spanning over a century of outstanding athletics achievements, teams - ARIZONA, ARIZONA STATE and UCLA - selected for the Pac-12 has claimed 513 NCAA Championships (300 In addition to the 12 national championships, the Pac-12 also the NCAA Tournament and a league-record five chosen to men’s, 183 women’s, 30 combined), over 200 more than had runners-up in 10 NCAA Championship events: women’s the NIT. All five NIT teams - OREGON, STANFORD, USC, UTAH the next league. soccer (UCLA), men’s water polo (USC), skiing (COLORADO), and WASHINGTON - won their opening round games, and the Pac-12 members have won 300 NCAA team championships men’s swimming and diving (CALIFORNIA), women’s swimming Utes enjoyed the deepest postseason run of any Conference on the men’s side, 83 more than the next-closest conference. and diving (CALIFORNIA), men’s indoor track & field (USC), team, advancing to New York City and Madison Square Garden Men’s NCAA crowns have come at a phenomenal rate for the softball (WASHINGTON), rowing (WASHINGTON), men’s where they defeated Western Kentucky in the NIT semifinals Pac-12 - 16 basketball titles by six schools, 54 tennis titles, 47 volleyball (UCLA) and women’s water polo (STANFORD). In 11 before falling to Penn State in the title game. Seven Pac-12 outdoor track & field crowns, and 29 baseball titles. Pac-12 sports, there were at least two teams among the final four and teams reached the 20-win plateau, equaling the most-ever members have won 25 of 48 NCAA titles in volleyball, 44 of 39 teams finished in the top four at 23 NCAA Championship for the league, highlighted by regular-season and tournament 49 in water polo, 30 in skiing, and 24 in swimming & diving events, including all-Pac-12 finals in women’s soccer, men’s champion Arizona’s 27-win campaign. water polo and women’s water polo. national championships. Pac-12 women’s basketball has enjoyed historic performances Individually, the Conference has produced an impressive Participation in the postseason was a common occurrence for over the last four years, establishing the Conference as number of NCAA individual champions. Over 2,000 (2,334) the Pac-12 in 2017-18. Of the 24 sports sponsored by the a premier league in the sport. Six teams earned NCAA individual crowns have been won by Pac-12 student-athletes over the years with 1,370 by male student-athletes. Student- athletes have also captured 186 individual titles at combined championships (i.e., skiing and fencing). On the women’s side, the story is much the same. Since the NCAA began conducting women’s championships 37 years ago, Pac-12 members have claimed at least four national titles in a single season on 27 occasions, including a current streak of 18-consecutive years, dating back to 2000. Overall, the Pac-12 has captured 183 NCAA women’s titles, easily outdistancing the SEC, which is second with 100. Pac-12 members have dominated a number of sports, winning 23 softball titles, 24 tennis crowns, 15 volleyball titles, 19 of the last 29 trophies in golf, and 16 in swimming & diving. Pac-12 women student-athletes shine nationally on an individual basis, as well, having captured an unmatched 778 NCAA individual crowns, an average of over 21 championships per season, including 29 in 2017-18. The Pac-12’s excellence is further proven in the annual Division I Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup competition, the prestigious award that honors the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the country. STANFORD won an unprecedented 24th-consecutive Directors’ Cup in 2017-18 to lead the Conference, leading a 1-2-4 finish for Pac-12 institutions. Five Pac-12 member institutions ranked among the top-25 Division I programs: No. 1 STANFORD, No. 2 UCLA, No. 4 USC, No. 19 CALIFORNIA and No. 24 OREGON. At least five member institutions have been ranked in the top 25 each of the Directors’ Cup program, with seven appearing in the top 20 on five different occasions (1998, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006).

Maria Polyakova (center) and Annika Lenz (right) stand on the podium at the 2017 Pac-12 Championships.

43 Tournament bids, marking the fifth-consecutive year at least Pacific Coast Conference play began in 1916 and, one year five teams garnered bids. Four teams advanced to the NCAA later, Washington State College (now Washington State Sweet Sixteen for the third-consecutive year and a record-tying University) was accepted into the league, with Stanford three teams were in the NCAA Elite Eight. It was the second University following in 1918. time in three years that at least that many teams advanced that far. OREGON won its first Pac-12 regular-season title In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission since 1999-2000 and first-ever Pac-12 Tournament crown. of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University The Ducks earned their highest NCAA Tournament seed, of Idaho. In 1924, the University of Montana joined the league garnering the No. 2 seed in the Spokane Regional. ARIZONA roster and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the STATE, CALIFORNIA, OREGON STATE, STANFORD and UCLA addition of UCLA. joined UO in the “Big Dance,” with UTAH earning a bid in the The Pacific Coast Conference competed as a 10-member WNIT. For the first time in Pac-12 history, three teams were league until 1950, with the exception of 1943-45 when ranked in the final top-25 of the USA Today/WBCA Coaches World War II curtailed intercollegiate athletic competition to poll, the Ducks finishing with their highest-ever final ranking a minimum. During that time, the league’s first commissioner at No. 5. UCLA was at No. 7, OREGON STATE was No. 8 and was named. Edwin N. Atherton was Commissioner in 1940 STANFORD was No. 13, appearing in the final poll for the and was succeeded by Victor O. Schmidt in 1944. In 1950, 17th-consecutive year. Four teams also appeared in the final Montana resigned from the Conference and the PCC continued Associated Press poll, the fourth-straight year the Conference as a nine-team Conference through 1958. had at least four teams in the final ranking. The Pac-12 boasts the most NCAA Tournament wins of any conference in the In 1959, the PCC was dissolved and the Athletic Association country over the last three years (41) and the best winning of Western Universities (AAWU) was formed with Thomas J. percentage among peer leagues (.695). Hamilton appointed Commissioner of the new league. The original AAWU membership included California, Stanford, STANFORD won its 17th all-time Pac-12 women’s volleyball USC, UCLA, and Washington. Washington State joined the title, advancing to its 21st all-time NCAA semifinal in 2017. membership in 1962, while Oregon and Oregon State joined in The Cardinal headlined nine league teams to earn NCAA 1964. Under Hamilton’s watch, the name Pacific-8 Conference Tournament bids, marking the fourth time in the last five years was adopted in 1968. In 1971, Wiles Hallock took over as at least eight Conference teams participated in the postseason Commissioner of the Pac-8. event. Along with Stanford, COLORADO, OREGON, OREGON STATE, UCLA, USC, UTAH, WASHINGTON and WASHINGTON Ten years later, on July 1, 1978, the STATE punched their tickets to the tournament. Eleven student- and were admitted to the league and athletes were selected AVCA All-Americans, with seven of those the Pacific-10 Conference became a reality. In 1986-87, the being sophomores or juniors on the first or second teams. league took on a new look, expanding to include 10 women’s Six teams appeared in the final AVCA Coaches poll, five of sports. Since then, the Conference has been considered the them in the top 15. The Pac-12 has won a NCAA-record 15 premier league in women’s athletics, securing the most NCAA of the 37 NCAA titles awarded. titles in women’s sports of any conference nearly every year. OREGON STATE baseball recorded the Pac-12’s 12th and final Thomas C. Hansen was named the Commissioner of the NCAA title of the 2017-18 campaign, the Beavers winning Pac-10 in 1983, a role he would hold for 26 years until 2009, the last two of the three-game championship series versus when he was succeeded by current Commissioner Larry Scott. Arkansas to claim their third all-time College World Series title and first since 2007. The Beavers had their backs against The University of Colorado accepted its invitation to join the wall since losing their opening game of the CWS, winning the Pac-12 on June 11, 2010, and on June 17, 2010, the four-straight elimination games to get to the championship agreed to join the Conference. The Buffaloes series, before winning two more versus Arkansas to claim the and Utes officially became the 11th and 12th members of crown. STANFORD claimed the Pac-12 crown for the first time the Conference on July 1, 2011, the first additions to the in 15 years and received the Conference’s automatic bid as league since 1978. four league squads earned berths. UCLA and WASHINGTON It was during the 2010-11 academic year that Scott helped rounded out the four postseason teams, the Huskies advancing deliver monumental changes that transformed the Conference for the first time ever to the CWS as well. The Pac-12 has, by into a modern 12-team league. In addition to expanding to 12 far, won the most baseball national titles of any conference in teams, member institutions agreed to equal revenue sharing the country, claiming 29 titles dating back to 1947. for the first time in the Conference’s history, created two The Pac-12 Conference has historically dominated the sport of football divisions - the North and the South, and established softball where league teams have claimed 23 NCAA titles in the a Football Championship Game for the first time. He also 37-year history of the championship. Pac-12 teams captured secured landmark media rights deals with ESPN and FOX an unprecedented nine in a row from 1988-1997, then most that dramatically increased national exposure and revenue recently claimed six-straight from 2006-11. OREGON picked for each school, in addition to establishing Pac-12 Networks up its fourth Pac-12 title in six years and seven league teams which guaranteed enhanced exposure across all sports. earned berths to the 2018 NCAA Tournament, marking the Currently, the Pac-12 sponsors 11 men’s sports and 13 23rd-consecutive year the Conference has had five or more women’s sports, with women’s lacrosse a new addition for teams advance to the postseason and has had at least three the 2017-18 academic year and beach volleyball having been berths every year since the league began sponsoring the sport added in 2015-16. Additionally, the Conference is a member in 1987. Half of the eight-team Women’s College World Series of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) in four other field was comprised of Pac-12 teams, with WASHINGTON, men’s sports and two women’s sports. ARIZONA STATE, OREGON and UCLA advancing that far. The Huskies played in the championship series, marking the 29th The Pac-12 Conference offices are located in the heart of time at least one Pac-12 team reached the finale. San Francisco in the SOMA district. PAC-12 CONFERENCE HISTORY The roots of the Pac-12 Conference date back more than 100 years, to December 2, 1915, when the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was founded at a meeting at the Imperial Hotel in Portland, Ore. The original membership consisted of four schools - the University of California at Berkeley, the , the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now ). All four are still charter members of the Conference.

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