Peg Bradley-Doppes Position: Director of Athletics Institution: University of Denver

Peg Bradley-Doppes was appointed the University of Denver's (DU) 12th director of athletics and recreation on March 28, 2005. A 27-year veteran of NCAA Division I programs where she served as head coach for 11 years and an athletics administrator for 16 years, Bradley-Doppes served as director of athletics and recreation at DU her first season prior to being promoted to vice chancellor of athletics and recreation and Ritchie Center operations in July of 2006. Bradley-Doppes took over a Pioneer program that has developed rapidly since moving to NCAA Division I nine years ago, and currently fields 17 intercollegiate sports programs with 305 student-athletes in five conferences.

An energetic leader of collegiate athletics as a student-athlete, head coach and athletics director, Bradley-Doppes is recognized as one of the nation's most effective athletics administrators. Her career in intercollegiate athletics spans several NCAA Division I programs in four conferences. Bradley-Doppes' 12 years of NCAA committee service includes Management Council, Division I Women's Basketball, the Committee on Women's Athletics, Division I Volleyball, and the Peer Review Team.

Bradley-Doppes was director of athletics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1999 to 2004. She joined UNCW following a successful stint at Michigan, where she served as senior associate athletics director and senior women's administrator, overseeing 130 employees and managing a budget of $20 million.

As a successful volleyball head coach at Michigan (1990-91), North Carolina (1984-90) and Miami University (1979-83), Bradley-Doppes compiled a 304-144 (.679) overall record with four conference championships and three Coach of the Year honors (1980, 1983 and 1989).

In July of 2004, Bradley-Doppes was named the General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletics Director by the All-American Football Foundation, and that October the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators named her Administrator of the Year in Division I-AAA (non-football programs).

The Cincinnati, Ohio, native received her bachelor's degree in health and physical education from the Mount St. Joseph in 1979, and completed her master's degree in health and physical education from Miami (Ohio) in 1981.