Dr. Tina R. Cheatham Associate Commissioner Southland Conference

Tina Cheatham is the associate commissioner for championships and sports administration at the Southland Conference. Cheatham is responsible for overseeing championship events and sports programs, as well as handling conference scheduling, administrating the league's awards program, overseeing officiating programs, and serving as a liaison to numerous committees. She also serves as the conference's senior woman administrator.

Cheatham was formerly the associate athletic director and senior woman administrator at Texas A&M University, a position she had held since 2000. Cheatham has a broad-based background in all areas of athletic administration, including game day oversight, sports program administration, serving as an NCAA governance and legislative liaison, NCAA sports committee service, and NCAA and Big 12 Conference championships administrations.

Cheatham has also served on the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Committee, which provides administrative and competitive oversight for the game and its national championship tournament. In addition, she has served in various capacities at over thirty NCAA championship events, including basketball, soccer, volleyball and softball championships.

A native of El Dorado, Ark., Cheatham was a basketball, volleyball and tennis student-athlete at Southern Arkansas University, where she earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude in physical education. She went on to complete her master's degree at Texas Women's University, and followed that by earning her Ph.D. in Health Sciences-Athletic Administration from TWU.

She began her professional career in 1980 as an educator and coach in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch (Texas) Independent School District, followed by an athletics administration internship at the Southwest Conference office in 1990. She joined the Texas A&M athletic department in 1990, and served in the capacities of assistant for women's athletics and assistant athletic director for women's sports before assuming her associate athletic director duties.

In addition to her campus responsibilities, Cheatham has also served on numerous Big 12 Conference sports and administrative committees, and has served as a member of the NCAA Midwest Regional Softball Advisory Committee. She also served as a board member of the Brazos Valley Sports Foundation.