Lisa Love Position: Vice President of Athletics

For the love of the game (espnW, Nov. 24, 2011)

5 years later, Love still heart of ASU athletics (ASU State Press, May 4, 2010)

The Lisa Love effect--Former USC volleyball coach taking ASU to unprecedented heights (ASU State Press, July 21, 2008)

Women AD set precedent (Florida Today, July 13, 2008)

Arlington's Love among handful of female ADs at Bowl Subdivision colleges (Dallas Morning News, June 12, 2008)

ASU athletics experiencing more than just wins (East Valley Tribune, April 8, 2008)

Lisa Love was named Arizona State's Vice President for University Athletics on April 23, 2005.

At ASU, Love serves as the senior administrative officer of the university's athletic program, which features 12 women's and nine men's sports, including men's and women's basketball, men's and women's golf, swimming and diving, women's tennis, track/field and cross country; women's gymnastics, soccer, softball, volleyball, and water polo, baseball, wrestling and football.

ASU has won seven national championships since Love took over in 2005.

Love is responsible for the management and development of one of the finest and most comprehensive athletic physical plants in the nation at ASU, playing host to nearly 1 million patrons each year. ASU's athletic staff includes more than 150 full and part-time coaches and administrative and support personnel who provide services to about 500 student-athletes.

Love has served on the NCAA Leadership Council and chaired the Pac-10 Conference's Athletic Director's Revenue Sharing Committee in 2006-07. She has participated in both Teach for America and Read for America, which required teaching and reading to seventh and eighth-graders at C.J. Jorgensen School and Copper King Elementary School.

In the short time she has presided over the affairs of ASU Athletics, Love has already established herself as one of the rising administrators in the country.

ASU'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS UNDER LOVE - 2007 Women's Indoor Track and Field - 2007 Women's Outdoor Track and Field - 2008 Women's Indoor Track and Field - 2008 Men's Indoor Track and Field - 2008 Softball - 2009 Women's Golf - 2011 Softball

Love's ability to lead was evident right from the start. She had been on the job a little more than two months (officially began July 1, 2005) when ASU had to move its scheduled football game with LSU from Baton Rouge, La., to Tempe - in less than a week's time - because of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the state of Louisiana. In the end, $1 million was raised through ticket sales from the game to assist with the Hurricane relief effort.

One of only six female athletic directors out of 119 at Division I Schools with football, Love has taken important steps since her appointment to ensure that ASU remains one of the premier athletic programs in the country. She has extended the contracts of women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne (two Pac-10 Championships and eight NCAA Tournament appearances); head track and field coach Greg Kraft (four national championships); head women's tennis coach Sheila McInerney and women's golf coach Melissa Luellen (2009 national champions).

In addition, Love has received praise around the country for hiring a powerful class of head coaches, including veteran football coach Dennis Erickson, the 9th-winningest active coach in the nation and two-time national champion who helped ASU fashion a 10-3 record and a Pac-10 co-championship in 2007. In addition, she hired North Carolina State's Herb Sendek (the 2010 Pac-10 Coach of the Year), who has guided the ASU men's basketball program tothree 20+ win seasons and an appearance in the NCAA Men's Basketballtournament in 2009. She also hired softball coach Clint Myers, who coached the team to national championships in 2008 and 2011,baseball coach Tim Esmay, who led the Devils to a Pac-10 Title and College WorldSeries appearance in his first season, women's soccer coach Kevin Boyd, who ledthe Sun Devils to NCAA appearances in 2009 and 2010, and volleyball coach Jason Watson, who led BYU to the Elite Eight in 2007.

"Lisa Love has made an impact that places her along side the great collegiate athletics leaders of our nation," Arizona State President Michael Crow said. "She has set the bar high, both for athletic and academic performance. She has demonstrated strategic skill in hiring, retaining and developing an exceptional athletic staff. Her vision and personal leadership skills are laying a foundation for sustained success."

Love came to ASU from the University of Southern California where she had been since 1989 as head women's volleyball coach (1989-98) and senior administrator (1991-2005).

At USC, Love handled the day-to-day supervision of eight sports and was active in the athletic department's strategic planning, gender equity, civil rights and NCAA certification issues and she served on both the Pac-10 Council and the NCAA Management Council. She also served two stints (1992 - 1993 and 2001 - 2002) as vice president of the Pacific-10 Conference.

As a coach, Love was a master teacher at the pinnacle of her profession. She compiled an impressive 404-171 as a college head coach for 17 seasons at Texas Arlington (199-78 from 1982-88) and USC (205-93 from 1989-98). At USC, she led the Trojans to nine NCAA tournament berths and eight finishes in the national Top 15. She was selected as the Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year in 1997. She was national Coach of the Year in 1988 when Arlington went 30-4 and fell one win shy of the Final Four.

Love served as president of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) from 1997-98 and as the chair of the NCAA Division I Volleyball Committee. In 2005, Love was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame.

As a varsity athlete in the sport of volleyball, Love was elected to the Hall of Honor at Texas Tech, her alma mater, and as a coach, Love was elected to both the AVCA and Texas-Arlington Halls of Honor.


Love's Leadership Appointments

Pac-10 Council Executive - VP (until 2011)

Pac-10 Budget and Finance - Chair (until 2012)

Pac-10 Diversity Leadership Initiative Review (until 2013)

Pac-10 Recruiting Guidelines (until 2011)

Pac-10 Athletic Directors' TV - Chair (until 2011)

Rose Bowl Management committee (ex off)

Operations Review Board for Karsten Golf Course


Arizona State's Directors' Cup Finishes Under Lisa Love

2010-11 - 27th

2009-10 - 22nd

2008-09 - 12th

2007-08 - 4th*

2006-07 - 10th

2005-06 - 13th

*- Highest ever finish for ASU

Sun Devil Pac-10 Championships Under Lisa Love (14)

2010-11: Softball

2009-10: Baseball

2008-09: Baseball, Women's Golf

2007-08: Baseball, Football (co-champions), Men's Golf, Softball, Women's Track and Field

2006-07: Baseball, Women's Golf, Women's Track and Field

2005-06: Women's Track and Field, Wrestling


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PAC-10 COACHES OF THE YEAR HIRED BY LISA
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INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS AT ASU INLISA LOVE ERA (26)

ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS UNDER LISA LOVE(27)