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Pac-10 Conference Larry Scott Commissioner PAC-10 CONFERENCE LARRY SCOTT COMMISSIONER Larry Scott succeeded Tom Hansen as the sixth Commissioner of the Paci!c-10 Conference on July 1, 2009. Scott joined the Pac-10 after serving six years as Chairman and Chief Executive Of!cer of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour (Women’s Tennis Association), where he helped gener- ate unprecedented growth and popularity for women’s professional tennis on a global scale. He has established a solid track record of innovation and growth -- across a range of dif- ferent sports, at both the college and professional levels -- grounded in deep experience that goes back to his student-athlete days at Harvard. At the WTA Tour Scott achieved the long-sought goal of equal prize money for women in tennis’ grand slam events. He also became the architect of the largest-ever sponsorship in both women’s sports and professional tennis, a six-year $88-million landmark title sponsorship agreement with Sony Ericsson. Among his many other WTA achievements are the largest tele- vision deal in women’s tennis history, and a reform package that led to a 40 percent increase in prize money – a record $86 million – and $750 million in facilities investment. More recently, in just one year as Pac-10 Commissioner, his successful recruitment of the University of Colorado and the University of Utah expanded the Conference for the !rst time since 1978. He has also orchestrated a rebranding of the Conference, with messages of innovation, excellence, and the advantages of West Coast location at its core. Scott has earned major recognition for his visionary leadership: In 2008 the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was nominated by Sports Business Journal as Sports League of the Year and was SCOTT QUICK FACTS the recipient of the Women’s Sports Foundation Billie Jean King Contribution Award. In 2008, Scott was named to Time Magazine’s list of best global sports executives. CURRENT POSITION: Commissioner Scott’s career in athletics extends back to his captaincy of Harvard’s tennis team, where Pacific-10 Conference he was named an All-American, earned a B.A. in European History in 1986, and gained a life- July 1, 2009-Present long appreciation for the importance of maintaining a careful balance between academics and sports. He went on to play tennis professionally on the ATP circuit, winning one title, and then PREVIOUS POSITION: going on to serve for more than a decade in key posts, including Chief Operating Of!cer, Presi- Chairman & CEOtWTA Tour April 15, 2003-June 30, 2009 dent of ATP Properties, and Executive Vice President of the International Group. In these roles, which included postings in Sydney, Monte Carlo and London, he was credited with signi!cantly HONORS: growing the global popularity of men’s tennis, establishing the Tennis Masters Cup as one of tTIME Magazine’s List of Best Sports the sport’s most successful events, negotiating the renewal of the ATP’s 13-year partnership Executives, 2008 t4QPSUT#VTJOFTT+PVSOBMSports with Mercedes-Benz -- which remains one of the preeminent sponsorship agreements in ten- League of the Year Nominee, 2008 nis history -- and launching tournaments in such developing regions as China and the Persian Gulf. EDUCATION: Larry and his wife, Cybille, live in Danville, Calif., and have three children, Alexander, Harvard University, B.A. European Sebastien and Alannah. History 1986 graduate with Honors ATHLETIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS: All-American tennis player at Harvard Three-year professional tennis player, winning one ATP title PREVIOUS PAC-10 COMMISSIONERS EDWIN N. VICTOR O. THOMAS J. WILES THOMAS C. LAWRENCE G. ATHERTON SCHMIDT HAMILTON HALLOCK HANSEN SCOTT 1940-1944 1944-1959 1959-1971 1971-1983 1983-2009 2009-Present 84 2010-11 BASKETBALL PAC-10 PAC-10 CONFERENCE U.S. SPORTS ACADEMY DIRECTORS’ CUP CONFERENCE Seven Pac-10 Conference institutions !nished the 2009-10 academic year ranked in the !nal U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup Top-25, including !ve in the top 15, the most of BREAKDOWN any conference. Conference Top-15 Schools The Conference of Champions® was represented by three members in the Directors’ Cup 1. Pac-10 (10) 5 Top-10. STANFORD won its 16th-consecutive Directors’ Cup with a national championship 2. ACC (12) 4 in men’s volleyball and women’s tennis, and runner-up !nishes in women’s soccer, women’s 3. Big 12 (12) 3 basketball, men’s gymnastics and women’s water polo. The Cardinal boasted an impressive 4. Big Ten (11) 2 5. SEC (12) 1 10 top-!ve !nishes this season, accummulating 1,508.50 points. UCLA !nished fourth in the Cup standings with 1,124.00 points, while CALIFORNIA WHERE PAC-10 SCHOOLS placed ninth with 1,013.50. Placing among the top 15 were USC (906.50) and OREGON RANKED (878.50), who ranked 13th and 14th, respectively. Rounding out the top 25, were ARIZONA School Total Pts STATE, who placed 22nd with 792.50 points and WASHINGTON at 24th with 770.75 points. 1. Stanford 1,508.50 On the right sidebar is the conference breakdown of institutions ranked in the top-10 of 4. UCLA 1,124.00 the !nal 2009-10 U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings (number in parenthesis 9. California 1,013.50 indicates conference membership total). 13. USC 906.50 14. Oregon 878.50 22. Arizona State 792.50 24. Washington 770.75 30. Arizona 683.50 68. Oregon State 284.50 79. Washington State 217.50 TOM HANSEN CONFERENCE MEDAL WINNERS A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution’s outstanding senior male and female stu- dent-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership. In 2009, the Pac-10 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10. The Tom Hansen Conference Medal winners will be honored at the State Farm Pride of the Pac-10 Breakfast held in Los Angeles in conjunction with the 2011 Pac-10 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments in March, 2010. Following are the 2009-10 award winners: 2009-10 PAC-10 TOM HANSEN CONFERENCE MEDAL WINNERS School Men Women Arizona Jean Basson, Swimming Justine Schluntz, Swimming Arizona State Ryan Whiting, Track & Field Liz Harkin, Soccer California Jerome Randle, Basketball Hana Cutura, Volleyball Oregon Ashton Eaton, Track & Field Keshia Baker, Track & Field Oregon State Diego Velasquez, Golf Mandi Rodriguez, Gymnastics Stanford Toby Gerhart, Football Carly Janiga, Gymnastics UCLA Mustafa Abdul-Hamid, Basketball Kaitlin Sather, Volleyball USC Jeff Byers, Football Kally Lucas, Water Polo Washington Nick Taylor, Golf Danielle Lawrie, Softball Washington State Matt Lamb, Track & Field Kiersten Dallstream, Soccer 2010-11 BASKETBALL PAC-10 85 PAC-10 CONFERENCE KEVIN WEIBERGt%FQVUZ$PNNJTTJPOFSBOEø$IJFG0QFSBUJOH0GmDFS Working as the key lieutenant to Commissioner Scott, Deputy Commissioner Kevin Weiberg has full responsibility for all aspects of the Pac-10 Conference’s administrative operations. He has oversight responsibility for the Conference’s daily operations, including governance, enforcement, compliance, sport management, championships, football bowl relationships, of!ciating, and television administration. Prior to joining the Pac-10, Weiberg was the Chief Executive Of!cer of iHoops, a joint venture between the NCAA and NBA, formed to develop a structure and programs to improve the quality of youth basketball in the United States. Weiberg has extensive experience in college athletics, as well. He served as vice president of university planning and development for the Big Ten Network, expanding the range and scope of network programming during early stages of its development. In addition, he served as deputy commissioner of the Big Ten Conference under Jim Delany from 1989 to 1998, and was instrumental in the integration of Penn State University into the Conference. Weiberg served as commissioner of the Big 12 Conference from 1998 to 2007, overseeing its transformation into one of the most com- petitive and !nancially successful conferences in the country. WOODIE DIXONt(FOFSBM$PVOTFMBOE71#VTJOFTTø"GGBJST Woodie Dixon joined the Pac-10 in April 2010 and manages all in-house legal needs, football administration and human resources. Dixon has spent the last six years as General Counsel for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs overseeing all legal matters for the franchise, including player, marketing, sponsorship, stadium operations, special event and sales contracts, litigation and licensing. Previously, he has practiced law with the NFL, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood LLP in Chicago, and Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, Minn. Dixon is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the University of Massachusetts graduate program in sports management and Amherst College. DANETTE LEIGHTONt$IJFG.BSLFUJOHø0GmDFS Danette Leighton joined the Pac-10 Conference in April 2010 as the Conference’s !rst Chief Marketing Of!cer. Her responsibilities include leading the Conference in the development and implementation of strategic marketing and communication programs, as well as integrating and supporting the marketing interests of the member institutions. An Arizona graduate, Leigton returns to the Pac-10 where she began her career as a public relations intern. Most recently, she acted as Vice President of Marketing and Brand Development for Maloof Sports & Entertainment. She spent the last decade overseeing all market- ing and branding efforts for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and ARCO Arena, as well as the business operations for the WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs. Previously, she led Sony’s sports marketing division, focusing on the PGA Tour and the Sony Open in Hawai’i. She also served as the executive director of the 1999 NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four at Stanford and worked in public relations for the Fiesta Bowl.
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