Kansas City, Mo.—Women Leaders in College Sports, the nation’s premier women’s athletic leadership association, has selected Val Ackerman, commissioner of the BIG EAST Conference; Joeleen Akin, associate athletic director, student-athlete development at Georgia Tech; Kelley Kish, director of athletics at Lake Erie College; and Adrianne Swinney, chief operating officer at the University of Connecticut to serve as 2018-2019 board of directors members. Jacqie McWilliams, commissioner of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association will serve as president in 2019-2020.
“Women Leaders continues to be the premier organization promoting the empowerment of women in college athletics,” McWilliams says.