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Young Athletics Leadership

5/10/2012 | Athletics, Blog

If you saw today on the official site, another new face has joined Ole Miss'athletics administration with the announcement of Derek Cowherd as the Senior Associate AD for Academic Support.

Derek continues a youth movement inthe senior leadership of Rebel Athletics. Of course, the most notable isAthletics Director Ross Bjork, who, at 39, is the youngest AD among BCSschools. Below are the rest of us 30-somethings that have joined theadministration in recent years -- a list that would have been even longer ifnot for Buffalo plucking our 32-year-old Foundation director Danny White to betheir next AD on Tuesday. (congrats Danny!)

Name

Title (Date In Position)

Current Age

Derek Cowherd

Senior Associate AD/Academic Support (May 2012)

36

Ross Bjork

Director of Athletics (March 2012)

39

Wesley Owen

Assistant AD/Ticket Operations (August 2011)ร‚ย ร‚ย ร‚ย ร‚ย ร‚ย ร‚ย 

30

Kyle Campbell

Assistant AD/Media and Public Relations (May 2011)

36

Matt Ball

Senior Associate AD/Compliance (April 2011)

33

Michael Thompson

Senior Associate AD/Marketing and Communications (August 2010)

33

Angela Robinson

Assistant AD/Finance (August 2009)

34

Jamil Northcutt

Assistant AD/Internal Operations (January 2008)

31

Shannon Singletary

Senior Associate AD/Sports Medicine, Strength & Conditioning ร‚ย  (January 2005)

39


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