Sandy Barbour Position: Director of Athletics Experience: 3rd Year at Cal Alma Mater: Wake Forest

In just over three years, Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour has molded the University of California Athletic Department into a model program that has achieved unprecedented success in the athletic arena while continuing to see its student-athletes perform at an exemplary level in the classroom and the community. The 2006-07 seasons saw Cal capture team championships in rugby and men's water polo, as well as a school-record 11 individual titles. In addition, Cal posted a top-10 finish in the Directors' Cup standings - its fourth top-10 finish in the past five years. Since Barbour began her tenure in Berkeley on Sept. 15, 2004, the Golden Bears have earned seven national team championships and 23 individual titles. In addition, the Cal football team has won back-to-back bowl championships - the Las Vegas Bowl in 2005 and the Holiday Bowl in 2006 - while sharing the Pac-10 championship for the first time since in 21 seasons in 2006. In each of the last three seasons, the Bear football program has been ranked in the top 10 in the country while also expanding its national television appearances. On the academic front, over half of Cal's student-athletes earned a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in 2006-07, and 10 of the 13 men's teams and eight of Cal's 14 women's programs earned cumulative GPAs higher than their historical average. In the most recent Academic Progress Report, six of Golden Bear teams earned perfect scores, including football, for the 2005-06 academic year. Over 175 student-athletes have earned academic all-conference recognition in each of the last three years. In May of 2007, the NCAA certified a comprehensive self-study of Intercollegiate Athletics at Cal, confirming that the Athletic Department is operating in full compliance of the organization's operating principles. The recognition demonstrates that the University is committed to sustaining a broad-based, nationally competitive athletics program that supports student-athlete academic needs and interests. Named one of the "100 Most Influential Women in Business" in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times, Barbour has also been chosen a 2006 Woman of Distinction by the East Bay Business Times and as the 2006 National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) Division I-A National Administrator of the Year. Barbour is an active member of several committees on both the national and conference levels. Currently chair of the Pac-10 Bowl Committee, she is also a member of the Pac-10 Executive Committee and the Pac-10 Television Committee and will serve as vice president of the conference for 2007-08. In addition, Barbour is on the NCAA Diversity Leadership Strategic Planning Committee and the NCAA Women's Basketball Discussion Group. Prior to moving to Berkeley, Barbour was the deputy director of athletics at Notre Dame, serving as the university's senior athletic administrator under Athletic Director Kevin White from July 2003 to September 2005. She previously held an associate athletic director position there starting in 2000. Barbour's career in intercollegiate athletic administration spans 26 years, beginning as a field hockey assistant coach and lacrosse administrative assistant at the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She has since served as assistant athletic director at Northwestern and in 1991 was recruited to Tulane as an associate athletic director. While at Tulane, Barbour also worked for White - then Tulane's athletic director. At the age of 36, she was appointed Tulane's director of athletics when White left in 1996 for a similar position at Arizona State. During her three years as athletic director, Tulane teams won 12 conference championships. In her first year in the position, Tulane won four conference titles, a feat never before accomplished in that school's history. She also hired Tommy Bowden as Tulane's head football coach during her first year. Bowden proceeded in 1997 to post the Green Wave's first winning season (7-4) in 16 years, and then directed the school to a 12-0 record, a Conference USA championship and a No. 7 national ranking the following season as 1998 Liberty Bowl champions. In her position at Notre Dame, Barbour oversaw facilities and event operations for the school's 26-sport program, including football game management and the department's two golf courses. She was also responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing Notre Dame's $127 million athletics facilities master plan. Additionally, her role at Notre Dame included responsibilities for women's lacrosse, men's and women's cross country, indoor and outdoor track, men's and women's swimming and men's golf. She also assisted White with the administration of women's basketball. Born Dec. 2, 1959, in Annapolis, Md., Barbour grew up in a military family. Her father was a career aviator in the U.S. Navy, and her family lived in various U.S. locations, as well as in Western Europe during her childhood. Barbour graduated cum laude in 1981 with a B.S. degree in physical education from Wake Forest, where she was a four-year letterwinner and served as captain of the field hockey team. She also played two varsity seasons of women's basketball. Barbour earned advanced degrees at both Massachusetts (an M.S. in sports management in 1983) and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management (an MBA in 1991). Between master's programs, Barbour served as assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at Northwestern from 1982-84. She also held the position of director of recruiting services during that period, before being promoted to assistant athletic director for intercollegiate programs in 1984, a position she held until 1999. Prior to joining Tulane, Barbour worked in programming and production for FOX Sports Net in Chicago during the summer of 1990.