Julie Soriero Director of Athletics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Julie Soriero began her new position of Athletic Director at MIT in the summer of 2007. Previously working as Athletic Director in 2004 at Colorado College.

Julie had performed top-level administrative duties in Colorado College’s athletic department for nearly four years, including two separate stints as interim director.

A former basketball coach, Soriero gained a wealth of experience in her previous role as senior associate athletics director, focusing on budget management, gender equity oversight, NCAA compliance, scheduling and daily oversight of staffing matters. She recently served as a member of the NCAA women’s basketball rules committee and has served on the Division III Independent Executive Committee. Recently, she was appointed to the NACDA Executive Committee and also serves on the NACWAA Nominating Committee. 

In January of 2004, the NCAA voted overwhelmingly in favor of amended legislation that permitted Colorado College and seven other Division III institutions to continue to grant financial aid to student-athletes who compete in Division I programs. The outcome preserved men’s ice hockey and women’s soccer at the Division I level at Colorado College and other historic sports programs at Clarkson University, Hartwick College, Johns Hopkins University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rutgers-Newark, St. Lawrence University, and SUNY-Oneonta.

Soriero stepped down from the coaching ranks in 2001 after 21 seasons behind the bench, including two at the Lady Tigers’ helm. She held head positions in all three NCAA Divisions, including a full decade (1989-99) at Division I University of Pennsylvania before coming to Colorado College.  She got her start at Haverford College, founding the Division III program there in 1980, then moved to the Division II ranks at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences (now Philadelphia University) in 1982.  

She has received numerous honors during her distinguished career, including the 1987 Philadelphia Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Coach of the Year. She also was named Northeast Region Coach of the Year in 1987 by the American Women Sports Foundation, an organization that recognized her as an All-American Coach for three consecutive seasons, as well as Philadelphia Big Five Coach of the Year in 1991-92 and 1997-98. Other contributions she has made to women’s basketball include a three-year term on the Converse District II Coach of the Year Committee, voting on the CNN/USA Today Top 25 and serving as chairperson of the Ivy League Women’s Basketball Association.

Originally from New Hope, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, Soriero graduated from Penn State University in 1974 with a Bachelor’s degree in health and physical education, then went on to earn her Master’s in sports psychology from Temple University in 1982. In addition, Julie is a 2001 NACWAA/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement graduate.