{"id":93828,"date":"2018-05-22T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93828"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:52:12","slug":"chun-named-division-i-ad-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93828","title":{"rendered":"Chun named Division I AD of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Chun named Division I AD of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

NACDA, Under Armour select Raiders VP for national honor<\/em><\/p>\n

Colgate Vice President and Director of Athletics Victoria M. Chun \u201991, MA\u201994 has been named Division I FCS Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s announcement by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics places Chun in an elite group among her peers. The award highlights of Chun and athletics directors at all levels for their commitment and positive contributions to student-athletes, campuses and their surrounding communities.<\/p>\n

Under Chun\u2019s leadership, Colgate Athletics has experienced unprecedented success \u2013 and this year is no different. During the 2017-18 academic season, Colgate already has captured its second conference football title in the last three years and its second straight men\u2019s soccer crown, with the soccer team advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time in program history.<\/p>\n

Colgate women\u2019s hockey has played its way to a program-record 32 victories and debut appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Raiders host Northeastern in an NCAA quarterfinal matchup this weekend at one of the showplaces of college hockey, the Class of 1965 Arena, built under Chun\u2019s watch in 2015-16.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s basketball is playing for a Patriot League title Wednesday night at Bucknell after also setting a program record with 19 wins. Thirteen of those victories came at home, tying the Colgate record set 91 years ago.<\/p>\n

All 25 Sports Have Flourished<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chun\u2019s nearly six-year tenure as Colgate director of athletics has produced three titles in football, two in men\u2019s soccer and single championships thus far in men\u2019s lacrosse, men\u2019s rowing, women\u2019s soccer and volleyball. All 25 varsity sports have shattered records under Chun\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

The academic accomplishments by Colgate student-athletes under Chun also have been stellar. Their 98 percent graduation rate ranks Colgate No. 2 in the nation alongside peer schools Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Davidson, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford and Yale. The most recent APR report had 22 out of 24 NCAA-sponsored teams scoring a perfect score of 1,000.<\/p>\n

The fall 2016 semester saw 331 Colgate student-athletes \u2013 or 55 percent \u2013 earn a 3.25 GPA or higher for the term, with 24 student-athletes earning perfect 4.0 GPAs. And 293 — or 48 percent — made the dean’s list with a GPA of 3.3 or better. All of these milestones are all-time highs for Colgate student-athletes.<\/p>\n

For this year\u2019s NACDA Under Armour award, Chun joins Thomas Beckett of Yale, Bill Smith of Bryant and Ingrid Wicker McCree of North Carolina Central as honorees on the Division I FCS level. It was announced last month that Chun is succeeding Beckett as Yale\u2019s director of athletics\u00a0July 1<\/span>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s honorees receive their awards\u00a0June 29<\/span>\u00a0during the James J. Corbett Awards Luncheon, part of NACDA\u2019s 53rd Annual Convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chun named Division I AD of the Year NACDA, Under Armour select Raiders VP for national honor Colgate Vice President and Director of Athletics Victoria M. Chun \u201991, MA\u201994 has been named Division I FCS Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year. This week\u2019s announcement by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics places […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}