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ADMINISTRATOR BIOGRAPHIES Dan Guerrero Chris Carlson Dr. Gene Block Director of Athletics Associate Athletic Director Chancellor 18th Year 6th Year 12th Year UCLA ‘74 UC Santa Barbara ‘93 Stanford ‘77

Seventeen years and 32 NCAA Chris Carlson, who previously served Dr. Gene Block became chancellor Championships later, Dan Guerrero’s the men’s basketball program at of UCLA in summer 2007, taking mantra of ‘image and substance’ UCLA for five years, begins his the helm of a world-class institution has clearly been established at a sixth year as an Associate Athletic comprising 37,000 students and level that few others in his profession can approach. At the Director supervising men’s tennis. Carlson also supervises 27,000 faculty and staff, with an annual budget of $3.6 department’s helm when UCLA Athletics became the first to women’s tennis, men’s basketball and men’s and women’s golf. billion. As chief executive officer, he oversees all aspects of 100 NCAA team championships, the Bruins’ current total of the university’s three-part mission of education, research 118 NCAA titles ranks second in the nation. UCLA teams Prior to returning to UCLA, Carlson worked one year as an and service. have also finished second 29 times and have totaled 130 Associate Commissioner for the West Coast Conference. Top 5 NCAA finishes. Previous to that position, he was the head men’s basketball Previously, Dr. Block served as vice president and provost coach at UC San Diego, where he guided the Tritons to the of the University of Virginia, where he also held the Alumni Across all sports, UCLA teams are fixtures in the postseason, Division II NCAA Tournament in three of his six seasons. Council Thomas Jefferson Professorship in Biology. With with 20 Bruin teams in 2018-19 qualifying for NCAA postseason academic expertise in biological clocks, he conducts research play. The football team has appeared in 13 bowl games, while Carlson served five years (2003-07) as Director of Operations on the neurobiology of circadian rhythms in higher organisms, the men’s basketball team advanced to consecutive Final for former UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland. At UCLA, leading a research lab funded by the National Institutes of Fours from 2006-08 and has made six trips to the Sweet 16. Carlson was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Health (NIH). From 1991 to 2002, he directed the National The program has also won 73 conference championships program and served as a liaison to the athletic administration Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center for in 16 different sports, produced nearly 800 All-Americans and other school officials. Additionally, he assisted in scheduling Biological Timing. In 1997, he was named a fellow of the and featured 11 Honda Award winners, including 2018-19 and recruiting.Prior to that, Carlson served in the same capacity American Association for the Advancement of Science. He Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Rachel Garcia. In his for two years (2002-03) at the University of Pittsburgh. has invented a number of devices and holds a patent for a 17 years at UCLA, the Bruins have finished second five times Originally from the San Diego area, Carlson joined the Pittsburgh non-contact respiratory monitor for the prevention of Sudden and third four times in the race for the Learfield IMG College staff (where Howland was the head coach) in the summer of Infant Death Syndrome. Directors’ Cup. In 2017-18, UCLA recorded a school-record 2001. Before joining Howland at Pittsburgh, Carlson was on 1,326 points in a close runner-up finish for the Directors’ Cup. Dr. Block joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1978 Howland’s coaching staff at Northern Arizona for one season as an assistant professor of biology. He served as vice provost Guerrero was the first athletic director at the NCAA Division (1998-99). Howland left NAU a year later to take the Pittsburgh for research from 1993 to 1998 and then as vice president I level (FBS, FCS and NCAA Division I-AAA) to earn three head coaching position. Carlson remained at NAU for two more for research and public service until his appointment as vice NACDA Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year awards years (1999-2001), where he worked with the Lumberjacks’ president and provost in 2001. He also headed an NIH graduate (2013-14 and 2006-07 at UCLA, 2001-02 at UC Irvine). In post players, along with recruiting and scheduling. training program aimed at increasing the number of scientists 2017, he was honored by the National Football Foundation Prior to working at Northern Arizona, Carlson served as an from underrepresented groups. In 1998, he received the with the John L. Toner Award, becoming the first-ever sitting assistant coach at his alma mater, UC Santa Barbara, from Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Public Service Award athletics director from the West Coast to receive the honor. 1994-98. for his work with Virginia’s business community. He was also selected as a finalist for the Athletic Director of the Year at the 2017 Sports Business Awards. Carlson was also an assistant coach at Dos Pueblos HS in A native of Monticello, NY, Dr. Block holds a bachelor’s degree Goleta from 1991-93. in psychology from Stanford University and a master’s and While success on the playing field with 32 NCAA Championships Ph.D.in psychology from the University of Oregon. He also in 15 different sports and 29 second-place finishes during his His administrative basketball experience includes his one completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, working with tenure are extraordinary numbers, UCLA’s academic success year at the West Coast Conference (2013) and 12 years as a the late Colin Pittendrigh, “the father of biological timing” and under Guerrero is equally noteworthy. During the Fall 2017 game management assistant for the National Association of distinguished biologist and former Stanford President, Donald quarter, a record 341 student-athletes made the Director’s Basketball Coaches All-Star Game. Carlson has also worked Kennedy. Dr. Block and his wife, Carol, have two adult children. Honor Roll, a number that was surpassed in Winter 2018, when four NCAA Tournament West Regionals. 351 earned that distinction. UCLA’s Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) continue to remain Carlson is a 1993 graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a high nation-wide. The UCLA student-athlete GSR is currently bachelor’s degree in History. He is married to Karen Nance at an all-time high 90%, and every Bruin team maintained and they have two sons, Nicklas,15, and Charlie, 12. multi-year APR rates of 930 or above, including four who achieved perfect scores of 1000. Guerrero continued playing career, he was inducted into the UCLA Baseball Hall Guerrero has extensive experience in committee work at of Fame in 1996. Guerrero earned a Master’s degree in Public both the NCAA and conference level. Currently, he serves on (1992-2002), helping to elevate that program to unprecedented Administration in 1982 from Cal State Dominguez Hills and the Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee, which success. Prior to arriving at UCI, Guerrero worked at Cal was named to the Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society for Public he previously chaired for two years, and he also recently State Dominguez Hills, where he led that program to national Affairs and Public Policy that same year. chaired an NCAA Working Group on behalf of the Division 1 prominence while serving as Athletic Director for five years Men’s Basketball Rice Commission. He is a member of the (1988-92). Guerrero was raised in Wilmington, CA. He is married to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Basketball former Anne Marie Aniello, and they have two grown daughters. Coaches (NABC), the Institute for Sport and Social Justice, A proud alumnus of UCLA, Guerrero received his Bachelor’s the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, and the United States degree from the University in 1974 and played second base International University Sports Federation, where he also serves for the Bruins for four years. Known as “Warrior” during his as Vice President. Women’s Tennis Support Staff Resource development has been a core tenet of Guerrero’s tenure. During this recent UCLA Centennial Campaign, from 2014 through July 2019, Guerrero and his external development team have raised in excess of $325 million in fundraising support to the program. He also secured major long-term apparel and rights-holder contracts with Under Armour and WME-IMG that, at the time of their signing, were the largest collegiate deals nationally in their respective areas. During his tenure, he has spearheaded in excess of $430 million in new and renovated UCLA athletic facilities. Guerrero came to UCLA from UC Irvine, where he had served as UCI’s fifth permanent Director of Athletics for 10 years Michael Teitell Linda Lassiter Daniel Rivas Ariel Guldstrand continued on right Faculty Athletic Representative Senior College Academic Assistant Athletic Assistant Athletic Trainer Counselor Performance Coach

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33 PAC-12 CONFERENCE

Built on a firm foundation of academic excellence and superior STANFORD’s tied the single-season NCAA record for most Participation in the postseason was a common occurrence for athletic performance, the Pac-12 Conference renewed NCAA titles with six, a record the Cardinal had set in 1996- the Pac-12 in 2018-19. Of the 24 sports sponsored by the its undisputed claim as the Conference of Champions® 97. The Cardinal extended its streak of winning an NCAA Conference, 19 witnessed at least half its teams participating in 2018-19. Beyond the courts and fields, the Pac-12’s title to 43 years with the women’s volleyball team capturing in NCAA or other postseason action. The men sent 63 of a accomplishments extend into the classrooms across 12 its second crown in three years and NCAA-leading eighth possible 95 teams into the postseason (66.3 percent), while campuses, and outside its traditional geographic footprint national championship all-time. The Cardinal women’s the women sent 79 of a possible 130 teams (60.8 percent). into new corners around the world. swimming and diving team won a third-straight title, won its sixth men’s gymnastics crown, captured its NCAA-leading WASHINGTON won its second Pac-12 Football Championship The only conference to win 500 NCAA Championships, the seventh women’s water polo national championship, claimed Game in three years, and 17th overall, with a 10-3 win over Pac-12 once again led the nation in 2018-19 with 13 NCAA its nation-leading 20th women’s tennis title, wrapping up the UTAH. It was the seventh time in the last eight seasons where crowns. This haul adds to an incredible 188 NCAA team titles year with men’s golf winning its first NCAA Championship the North Division won the Conference championship. With claimed since 1999-2000 and 330 since 1981-82, the start since 2007, upsetting three higher-seeded teams along the Utah’s participation in the Championship Game, the South of women’s sports sponsorship, an average of nearly nine way. Stanford was one of just five teams in the nation to win Division has now sent all six teams to the Pac-12 Championship per year. Even more impressive has been the breadth of the multiple NCAA Championships in 2018-19 and the only one Game in its eight-year existence. Pac-12’s success with championships coming in 28 different to win more than a pair. men’s and women’s sports. The Pac-12 has led or tied the Washington LB Ben Burr-Kirven was named the Pac-12’s Pat nation in NCAA Championships in 53 of the last 59 years, Also a multiple championship winner, UCLA defended its Tillman Defensive Player of the Year and earned first team with the exceptions coming no lower than third. beach volleyball title winning an All-Pac-12 final and claimed All-America status by the Football Writers’ Association and its NCAA-leading 12th softball crown, the Conference’s first the Associated Press. He was also recognized as the Pac-12 For the 14th-consecutive year, the Pac-12 had the most, since 2011. Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year. WASHINGTON STATE, or tied for the most, NCAA titles of any conference in the which tied Washington atop the North Division, was victorious country, winning at least six every year since 1999-2000. Led by senior Dani Jones who claimed the individual crown, in the Alamo Bowl to cap an 11-2 season. Quarterback No other conference has won double-digit NCAA crowns COLORADO dominated the women’s cross country field Gardner Minshew II, the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, in a single year, the Pac-12 doing so 11 times, including a to claim its third all-time title. USC won its 10th national led the Cougars to their most wins in a season in school record 14 in 1996-97. championship in men’s water polo, playing in its NCAA-record history, establishing a new Pac-12 single-season passing 14th-consecutive final. UTAH skiing won its second title in three mark as he threw for 4,779 yards. OREGON DB Ugochukwu Spanning over a century of outstanding athletics achievements, years and 12th all-time while CALIFORNIA men’s swimming Amadi received the Lombardi Award honoring the top FBS the Pac-12 has claimed 526 NCAA Championships (304 and diving built a commanding 85-point cushion over the player regardless of position. It is the second-straight season men’s, 191 women’s, 31 combined), over 200 more than second-place team to win its first national crown since 2014 a Pac-12 player earned the award. Three players earned the next league. and sixth in program history. WASHINGTON women’s rowing Google Academic All-America Honors — Oregon QB Justin Pac-12 members have won 304 NCAA team championships swept all three grand finals to win the NCAA Championship Herbert was named a first team selection, and tabbed as the on the men’s side, 85 more than the next-closest conference. for the second time in three years. Academic All-America Team Member of the Year; UW LB Ben Men’s NCAA crowns have come at a phenomenal rate for the Burr-Kirven and OREGON STATE WR Timmy Hernandez were In addition to the 13 national championships, the Pac-12 also second-team honorees. A total of 33 Pac-12 players were Pac-12 - 16 basketball titles by six schools, 54 tennis titles, 47 had runners-up in six NCAA Championship events: men’s outdoor track & field crowns, and 29 baseball titles. Pac-12 selected in the NFL Draft and now have had three or more water polo (STANFORD), women’s swimming (CALIFORNIA), players selected in the first round since 2011. members have won 25 of 49 NCAA titles in volleyball, 45 of women’s indoor track & field (USC), women’s water polo 50 in water polo, 31 in skiing, and 25 in swimming & diving (USC), beach volleyball (USC) and wiomen’s track & field Led by OREGON’s surprising four-wins-in-four-days run to the national championships. (USC). In nine sports, there were at least two teams among Pac-12 Tournament title in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena, Pac- On the women’s side, the story is much the same. Since the the final four and 33 teams finished in the top four at 21 12 men’s basketball sent three teams to the NCAA Tournament NCAA began conducting women’s championships 38 years NCAA Championship events, including all-Pac-12 finals in (ARIZONA STATE, OREGON and WASHINGTON) and a fourth to ago, Pac-12 members have claimed at least four national beach volleyball, men’s water polo and women’s water polo. the NIT (COLORADO) in 2018-19. The Ducks continued their titles in a single season on 29 occasions, including every postseason success into the Sweet 16 for the third time in year except one since 2000-01. Overall, the Pac-12 has captured 183 NCAA women’s titles, easily outdistancing the SEC, which is second with 103. Pac-12 members have dominated a number of sports, winning 24 softball titles, 25 tennis crowns, 16 volleyball titles, 19 of the last 30 trophies in golf, and 17 in swimming & diving. Individually, the Conference has produced an impressive number of NCAA individual champions. Over 2,000 (2,378) individual crowns have been won by Pac-12 student-athletes over the years with 1,384 by male student-athletes. Pac-12 women student-athletes have captured an unmatched 806 NCAA individual crowns, an average of over 21 championships per season, including 29 in 2018-19. Student-athletes have also captured 188 individual titles at combined championships (i.e., skiing and fencing). The Pac-12’s excellence is further proven in the annual Division I Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup competition, the prestigious award that honors the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the country. STANFORD won an unprecedented 25th-consecutive Directors’ Cup in 2018-19 to lead the Conference, leading a 1-5-6 finish for Pac-12 institutions. Six Pac-12 member institutions ranked among the top-25 Division I programs: No. 1 STANFORD, No. 5 USC, No. 6 UCLA, No. 18 CALIFORNIA, No. 19 ARIZONA STATE and No. 24 WASHINGTON. At least five member institutions have been ranked in the top 25 each year of the Directors’ Cup program. 2018-19 REVIEW The Conference’s 13 NCAA titles came in the form of eight women’s, four men’s crowns and one from a combined sport. Seven Conference members claimed at least one NCAA title and, of the five institutions in the country to have won multiple titles, two were from the Pac-12. Head coach Billy Martin and the Bruins took the top spot at the 2018 Pac-12 Championships in Ojai, Calif.

34 PAC-12 CONFERENCE four seasons before bowing out to eventual national champion Conference teams earned trips to the NCAA Tournament, for each school, in addition to establishing Pac-12 Networks Virginia, while the Buffaloes reached the NIT quarterfinals the 24th-consecutive year the Pac-12 has had five or more which guaranteed enhanced exposure across all sports. before falling on the road to eventual champion Texas. The teams advance to the postseason, including at least three Huskies claimed the outright Pac-12 regular-season title, berths every year since the league began sponsoring the Currently, the Pac-12 sponsors 11 men’s sports and 13 clinching the crown in late February thanks to the fifth-best sport in 1987. The Pac-12 had the most representation in women’s sports, with the most recent additions coming in the start in Conference history at 10-0 en route to a 15-3 league the NCAA Women’s College World Series with the Huskies 2017-18 (women’s lacrosse) and 2015-16 (beach volleyball) mark. It marked just the ninth time in Conference history the and ARIZONA joining the Bruins in Oklahoma City. ARIZONA academic years. Additionally, the Conference is a member of same school won outright league titles in both football and STATE and STANFORD also earned postseason bids. Led by the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) in four other men’s basketball in the same academic year. two-time national player of the year Rachel Garcia, UCLA’s men’s sports and two women’s sports. appearance in the championship series marked the 30th time The Pac-12 Conference offices are located in the heart of Pac-12 women’s basketball has been riding a wave of success at least one Pac-12 team reached the finale. over the last five years, establishing itself as a premier league San Francisco in the SOMA district. in the sport. After defending its Pac-12 regular-season title, PAC-12 CONFERENCE HISTORY OREGON advanced to its first-ever NCAA Women’s Final Four marking the 10th time in 12 years a league team has The roots of the Pac-12 Conference date back more than reached the national semifinal. With at least half the league 100 years, to December 2, 1915, when the Pacific Coast earning a NCAA Tournament bid for the third-straight year, Conference (PCC) was founded at a meeting at the Imperial the Pac-12 went a combined 11-1 in the first two round, the Hotel in Portland, Ore. The original membership consisted best record for a conference since 1997. Five teams advanced of four schools - the University of California at Berkeley, the to the Sweet 16 for the second time in three years and was University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon the only league to have at least two teams in the Elite Eight Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). All four are the last four years. Joining the Ducks in the postseason were still charter members of the Conference. ARIZONA STATE, CALIFORNIA, OREGON STATE, STANFORD Pacific Coast Conference play began in 1916 and, one year and UCLA. ARIZONA represented the Conference in the WNIT, later, Washington State College (now Washington State capturing the tournament crown in front of a Pac-12 record University) was accepted into the league, with Stanford and sold out crowd of 14,644. The Wildcats recorded the best University following in 1918. turnaround in the country, going from six wins to 24 in 2018- 19. The Cardinal claimed its 13th all-time Pac-12 Tournament In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission crown which was held for the first time in Las Vegas at the of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University MGM Grand Garden Arena. For the first time ever, five Pac- of Idaho. In 1924, the University of Montana joined the league 12 teams appeared in the Associated Press final poll, with roster and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the two ranked in the top 10, extending the Conference’s streak addition of UCLA. of two top-10 ranked teams to five-consecutive years. UO junior Sabrina Ionescu continued to set NCAA triple-doubles The Pacific Coast Conference competed as a 10-member records, owning the most in a career by any man or woman league until 1950, with the exception of 1943-45 when (18), and also set the single-season mark. She was tabbed the World War II curtailed intercollegiate athletic competition to WBCA and John R. Wooden National Player of the Year. Cal’s a minimum. During that time, the league’s first commissioner Kristine Anigwe was selected the WBCA National Defensive was named. Edwin N. Atherton was Commissioner in 1940 Player of the Year. and was succeeded by Victor O. Schmidt in 1944. In 1950, Montana resigned from the Conference and the PCC continued STANFORD won its won its 18th all-time Pac-12 women’s as a nine-team Conference through 1958. volleyball title en route to winning its NCAA-leading eighth NCAA title in the sport with two-time AVCA National Player In 1959, the PCC was dissolved and the Athletic Association of the Year and Pac-12 Player of the Year Kathryn Plummer of Western Universities (AAWU) was formed with Thomas J. leading the way. Eight league teams earned NCAA Tournament Hamilton appointed Commissioner of the new league. The bids, marking the fifth time in the last six years at least eight original AAWU membership included California, Stanford, Conference teams participated in the postseason event. USC, UCLA, and Washington. Washington State joined the Along with Stanford, COLORADO, OREGON, USC, UTAH, membership in 1962, while Oregon and Oregon State joined in WASHINGTON and WASHINGTON STATE punched their tickets 1964. Under Hamilton’s watch, the name Pacific-8 Conference to the tournament. Thirteen student-athletes were selected was adopted in 1968. In 1971, Wiles Hallock took over as AVCA All-Americans, with eight of those being sophomores Commissioner of the Pac-8. or juniors. Six teams appeared in the final AVCA Coaches Ten years later, on July 1, 1978, the University of Arizona poll. The Pac-12 has won a NCAA-record 16 of the 38 NCAA and Arizona State University were admitted to the league and titles awarded. the Pacific-10 Conference became a reality. In 1986-87, the UCLA won its 10th all-time Pac-12 baseball title, setting new league took on a new look, expanding to include 10 women’s program records for wins (52) and league wins (24). The Bruins sports. Since then, the Conference has been considered the led the country with a .855 regular-season winning percentage, premier league in women’s athletics, securing the most NCAA earning the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. The titles in women’s sports of any conference nearly every year. league earned five tournament berths for the most since Thomas C. Hansen was named the Commissioner of the 2015, with invitations given to ARIZONA STATE, CALIFORNIA, Pac-10 in 1983, a role he would hold for 26 years until 2009, OREGON STATE and STANFORD, in addition to the Bruins. when he was succeeded by current Commissioner Larry Scott. OSU’s Adley Rutschman had one of the most memorable seasons in collegiate baseball history, winning nearly every The University of Colorado accepted its invitation to join major award this season, including becoming the second- the Pac-12 on June 11, 2010, and on June 17, 2010, the straight Pac-12 student-athlete to claim the Golden Spikes University of Utah agreed to join the Conference. The Buffaloes Award and ninth all-time in Pac-12 history, the most for any and Utes officially became the 11th and 12th members of conference. The Pac-12 has, by far, won the most baseball the Conference on July 1, 2011, the first additions to the national titles of any conference in the country, claiming 29 league since 1978. titles dating back to 1947. It was during the 2010-11 academic year that Scott helped UCLA softball recorded the Pac-12’s 13th and final NCAA deliver monumental changes that transformed the Conference title of the 2018-19 season. The Pac-12 Conference has into a modern 12-team league. In addition to expanding to 12 historically dominated the sport, claiming 24 NCAA titles teams, member institutions agreed to equal revenue sharing in the 38-year history of the championship. Pac-12 teams for the first time in the Conference’s history, created two captured an unprecedented nine in a row from 1988-1997, football divisions - the North and the South, and established then claimed six-straight from 2006-11. The Bruins and a Football Championship Game for the first time. He also WASHINGTON shared the Pac-12 crown, earning the No. 2 secured landmark media rights deals with ESPN and FOX and No. 3 seeds, respectively, in the NCAA Tournament. Five that dramatically increased national exposure and revenue