Dear Friends,
The search for the University’s next Athletic Director will officially get underway as the new academic year begins in late August. Over the summer, we are laying important groundwork to ensure a successful search: selecting a search firm, identifying the search committee, meeting with key members of the Athletics team, and collecting input from the University community and alumni and friends, like you, who actively and enthusiastically support Spider Athletics. We are fortunate to have the leadership of David Walsh as Interim AD. I am grateful to him for taking on this important role.
I have asked Vice President for Business & Finance Dave Hale to lead the search for our next AD. Throughout his career, both here and elsewhere, Dave has worked closely with colleagues in Athletics, and I know that Dave shares my deep commitment to continuing to advance Spider Athletics and to recruiting an outstanding new AD.
I believe that the AD role at Richmond will be an enormously attractive opportunity for many exceptional candidates nationally. The next AD will build on a remarkable foundation developed over generations by talented and dedicated Athletics professionals, and others in the University family, including the members of our Spider Club. With you, I look forward to recruiting a new leader for Spider Athletics who will sustain and advance a tradition of athletic excellence at the University of Richmond.
I also wanted to inform you of an organizational announcement that I made today. Effective July 1, Athletics will report on a day-to-day basis through Dave Hale, who will become Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. The Provost, Jeff Legro, will likewise become an Executive Vice President, with other Vice Presidents reporting through him. This reorganization will enable me to spend a greater amount of time on external matters, such as alumni relations and enhancing philanthropic support for the University, including Spider Athletics.
I want to assure you that this reorganization in no way reflects a diminishment of Athletics’ stature at Richmond or the value and priority I place on it. As you well know, our Division I Spider Athletics program helps to enliven our campus, engage our alumni, and make the University of Richmond distinctive. I am immensely proud of all that our coaches, student-athletes, and Athletics Department staff have accomplished, and deeply grateful for the ways in which they represent the University. I am likewise grateful to the alumni and friends who strongly support Spider Athletics and the achievements of our student-athletes. I believe that this reorganization will strengthen further the mutually beneficial relationship between Spider Athletics and the University as a whole.
Betty and I look forward to continuing to cheer on the Spiders alongside many of you when the new academic year begins. Thank you for your outstanding support of Athletics at the University of Richmond.
Go Spiders!
Ronald A. Crutcher
President
The search for the University’s next Athletic Director will officially get underway as the new academic year begins in late August. Over the summer, we are laying important groundwork to ensure a successful search: selecting a search firm, identifying the search committee, meeting with key members of the Athletics team, and collecting input from the University community and alumni and friends, like you, who actively and enthusiastically support Spider Athletics. We are fortunate to have the leadership of David Walsh as Interim AD. I am grateful to him for taking on this important role.
I have asked Vice President for Business & Finance Dave Hale to lead the search for our next AD. Throughout his career, both here and elsewhere, Dave has worked closely with colleagues in Athletics, and I know that Dave shares my deep commitment to continuing to advance Spider Athletics and to recruiting an outstanding new AD.
I believe that the AD role at Richmond will be an enormously attractive opportunity for many exceptional candidates nationally. The next AD will build on a remarkable foundation developed over generations by talented and dedicated Athletics professionals, and others in the University family, including the members of our Spider Club. With you, I look forward to recruiting a new leader for Spider Athletics who will sustain and advance a tradition of athletic excellence at the University of Richmond.
I also wanted to inform you of an organizational announcement that I made today. Effective July 1, Athletics will report on a day-to-day basis through Dave Hale, who will become Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. The Provost, Jeff Legro, will likewise become an Executive Vice President, with other Vice Presidents reporting through him. This reorganization will enable me to spend a greater amount of time on external matters, such as alumni relations and enhancing philanthropic support for the University, including Spider Athletics.
I want to assure you that this reorganization in no way reflects a diminishment of Athletics’ stature at Richmond or the value and priority I place on it. As you well know, our Division I Spider Athletics program helps to enliven our campus, engage our alumni, and make the University of Richmond distinctive. I am immensely proud of all that our coaches, student-athletes, and Athletics Department staff have accomplished, and deeply grateful for the ways in which they represent the University. I am likewise grateful to the alumni and friends who strongly support Spider Athletics and the achievements of our student-athletes. I believe that this reorganization will strengthen further the mutually beneficial relationship between Spider Athletics and the University as a whole.
Betty and I look forward to continuing to cheer on the Spiders alongside many of you when the new academic year begins. Thank you for your outstanding support of Athletics at the University of Richmond.
Go Spiders!
Ronald A. Crutcher
President
