The American Volleyball Coaches Affiliation (AVCA) introduced on Thursday that Jaime Gordon will turn into its new govt director. She replaces Kathy DeBoer, who introduced her retirement from AVCA earlier this month. Gordon is predicted to start out at AVCA in June.
Gordon was a longtime coach at Morehead State and resigned final January to focus on his different job as athletic director on the Kentucky faculty. Read about it here.
“The chief director position requires a singular mixture of teaching and administrative expertise. AVCA Chairman and Minnesota coach Keegan Prepare dinner, in an AVCA information launch, mentioned Dr. “Jaime Gordon involves AVCA as a devoted and profitable skilled in each fields.”
“Jaime’s choice to step down from his position as a profitable D1 athletic director and dedicate himself utterly to AVCA is one which I completely respect. I feel this can be a second of celebration for the game of volleyball and AVCA being ready to draw a candidate as certified and skilled as Jaime.”
Gordon spent the final 20 years in athletics at Morehead State, the place he turned the varsity’s highest-paid coach in any sport earlier than ascending to the athletic director’s chair in 2019. partnerships.
“As AVCA’s govt director, I used to be blown away by this unimaginable alternative to serve the game of volleyball and the teaching occupation,” Gordon mentioned within the AVCA information launch. “I’m grateful for the belief Keegan and the Board have positioned in me to guide an affiliation that has deeply influenced me and 1000’s of different coaches over the previous 4 a long time.
“The idea of changing Kathy DeBoer is daunting. He has been a job mannequin for teaching, managing and main others. I pledge to tirelessly advance and protect the imaginative and prescient that was began 42 years in the past by Terry and Andy (Terry Liskevych and Andy Banachowski based AVCA in 1981), nurtured by Sandy Vivas and developed by Kathy over the previous 17 years.
Gordon earned his PhD in Academic Management from Morehead State in 2021.
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