NORMAL — Illinois State has taken a major step toward naming its next athletic director by selecting four finalists.
Three men and a woman will participate in virtual interviews Monday through Thursday with what a university announcement called "campus constituencies."
The most familiar name is Eastern Illinois athletic director Tom Michael, a former University of Illinois basketball player.
Other finalists are Kyle Brennan, deputy athletic director and chief operating office at Utah; Tamica Smith Jones, the director of intercollegiate athletics at California-Riverside; and Derek van der Merwe, the assistant vice president and chief operating officer at Arizona.