Wilcox And Corrigan Join Staff; Kennedy Promoted To Deputy Director Of Athletics

DURHAM, N.C. ? Duke University Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White announced on Tuesday the that long-time administrator Chris Kennedy was promoted to Deputy Director of Athletics, and that Stan Wilcox and Boo Corrigan have joined the Blue Devil athletics department senior administrative staff. Wilcox joins the staff as Deputy Director of Athletics while Corrigan will serve as the department's Senior Associate Director of Athletics for External Affairs.

Kennedy, a member of the Duke Athletics staff since 1977, has served in several capacities in the department during his tenure, including academics coordinator, compliance director, Senior Associate Director of Athletics for the past 11 years and the Interim Director of Athletics in 2008. His role will include oversight of the compliance and academic support areas, as well as additional administrative duties.

“Chris is deserving of this promotion,” said White. “As a faculty member, he completely understands -- and adheres to -- the values of Duke University. He has played an integral role in the growth and long-term success of the Duke Department of Athletics. No one is more loyal to Duke and this department and I am thrilled he has accepted this new assignment.”

Under Kennedy's oversight, Duke has won the College Academic Achievement Award a record 12 times, including five consecutive years from 1993-97, for the graduation rate of its football student-athletes. Kennedy has been presented five times with a special citation from the CFA for his excellence in academic advising. Additionally, Duke consistently ranks among the nation's best in overall graduation rates of its student-athletes. In compliance, Kennedy has overseen the growth of a department that now includes three full-time positions, two of whom hold law degrees.

A 1971 graduate of Georgetown, Kennedy is a Peer Reviewer for the NCAA Certification Committee and served as Duke's athletics department liaison as it went through the process twice in the past 10 years.

Kennedy earned his master's degree from Georgetown in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Duke in 1979. He still serves as an adjunct assistant professor of English at Duke. He and his wife, Ana Beamud, have two children ? Joe, a 2005 graduate of Duke and former captain of the school's men's lacrosse team, and Marion, currently a senior at Duke.

Both Wilcox and Corrigan worked with White at Notre Dame for the past three years.

“We are incredibly fortunate to attract both of these talented professionals to Duke University,” White said. “Both bring excellent skill sets and passion to their jobs every day. Stan and Boo will be integral parts to our future success in Duke Athletics. Simply put, I could not be happier they've decided to join our senior leadership team.”

Wilcox, a former basketball letterman at Notre Dame, spent the last three years as the deputy director of athletics at his alma mater. Prior to returning to South Bend in 2005, he served 11 years as an associate commissioner of the BIG EAST Conference. At Duke, Wilcox's duties will include managing the day-to-day operation of the department and oversight of the football program. Other areas within athletics he will oversee are Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Human Resources, Sports Medicine and the Strength and Conditioning departments. In addition, Wilcox will be responsible for coordinating scheduling and will serve as the department's primary liaison with Duke's legal counsel.

While working at the BIG EAST Conference, Wilcox was the league's representative to the NCAA Management Council from 2000-05 and served on the Management Council subcommittees on incentives and disincentives, governance, nominations and the task force to review the NCAA's one-time transfer exception rule. Also, he spent time on the NCAA recruiting task force and the basketball issues committee. For the BIG EAST, Wilcox, who in 2001-02 received the National Association of Athletics Compliance Coordinators Outstanding Achievement Award, was responsible for the league's NCAA governance, legislative, enforcement and compliance services.

Additionally, Wilcox is a past president of the Black Coaches Association (BCA), having held the post from June, 2003 to June, 2005. Overall, he served 11 years on the BCA's Board of Directors.

Before his tenure at the BIGEAST Conference, Wilcox worked as a legislative assistant at the NCAA from 1989-94. Prior to that, he worked as a senior court analyst for the King County Supreme Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1982-89. Following his graduation from Notre Dame in 1981 with a degree in economics, he spent one year as an account executive for Serres, Visones & Rice Insurance in New York, N.Y.

A native of North Babylon, N.Y., Wilcox played in 100 career games on the hardwood for the Fighting Irish and was a member of Notre Dame's 1978 club that faced Duke in the NCAA Final Four in St. Louis, Mo. He helped the Irish to a four-year ledger of 92-26 with four NCAA Tournament berths. Wilcox went on to earn a juris doctor degree from the Brooklyn Law School in 1988 and is a member of the New York State Bar Association. He is married to the former Ramona Harrell. Stan has three daughters, Soraya, Yasmeen and Nadia, and Ramona has three sons, James, Brian and Charles.

Corrigan's chief responsibilities at Duke will involve corporate partnerships and oversight of the Blue Devils' Marketing, Promotions, Ticket, Internet Operations, Sports Information and Video Services departments. For the past three years, he oversaw Notre Dame's corporate relations and marketing as an associate athletic director. Before joining the staff at Notre Dame, Corrigan spent nearly three years as the associate athletic director for marketing at the United States Naval Academy.

He previously spent a year as a partner in Corrigan Sports Enterprises, an entrepreneurial sports marketing company, in the Baltimore area -- and also worked two years as an equity partner in mrgoodbucks.com, an e-commerce program that involved creation of affinity business relationships. Corrigan also served two years as vice president of EMCEE Sports, a Baltimore-based sports marketing company with a focus on professional golf from 1997 through '99. In that role, he was responsible for a $2.5 million operating budget for the State Farm Senior Classic. He worked for Host Communications for two years, helping create relationships with various college and university athletic departments, and served as assistant director of marketing at Florida State from 1992-95.

The youngest son of former ACC commissioner and Duke graduate Gene Corrigan, he is a 1990 University of Notre Dame graduate with a degree in economics. He and his wife, the former Kristen Aceto, are the parents of three children, Finley, Tre and Brian.

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