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Ivy League's Campbell-McGovern Named NCAA Legislative Council Chair
NCAA.org Feature: Ivy League’s Campbell-McGovern Up to Council Challenge
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Ivy League Deputy Excecutive Director Carolyn Campbell-McGovern has been named chair of the NCAA Legislative Council for a one-year term, effective Sept. 1, 2011.
Her one-year term as chair continues her fourth year on the Legislative Council, which is the primary legislative body in the NCAA Division I governance structure, subject to Board of Directors oversight. The Legislative Council is responsible for considering every proposal in the annual legislative cycle with the caveat that the Board can examine and act on any proposal it so chooses. The Legislative Council's actions on legislation will not be considered final until the conclusion of the following Board meeting to ensure the Board has an opportunity for final review and oversight.
Campbell-McGovern has been with the Ivy League Office since since May 1993, the majority of the time as the League office's senior associate director prior to her promotion to Deputy Executive Director in July 2009. She assists the Executive Director in managing Ivy League's activities for its 33 varsity men's and women's sports and is responsible for conducting and reporting at the semi-annual meetings of various conference committees, including Presidents, Faculty Representatives, Admissions Officers, Financial Aid Officers, and Athletic Administrators.
She has been very active in the NCAA legislative structure, serving as chair of the Women’s Ice Hockey Committee and Olympic Sports Liaison Committee, as well as representing the League on the Management Council for three years. In 2009, she was named Administrator of the Year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Before joining the Ivy Office, Campbell-McGovern was an associate athletic director at Wellesley College and an assistant athletic director at Dartmouth College.
A fine athlete in her own right, she garnered All-American status as a lacrosse player at Bates College, where she earned her bachelors degree in English. She then received her MBA from Temple University and served as an assistant coach to the defending national champion Temple lacrosse team in 1985.
