Judy Sweet Senior Vice President, Championships and Education NCAA

Judy Sweet currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Championships and Education/Senior Woman Administrator at the NCAA.  She previously served as Director of Athletics at the University of California, San Diego for 24 years. When chosen as Athletic Director in 1975, she became one of the first women in the nation to direct a combined men's and women's intercollegiate athletics program. The UCSD Athletics Program involves 23 varsity teams. The UCSD program won the Sears Directors Cup in 1998, recognizing it as the nation's most successful Division III program that year.

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Judy is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She earned a Master's of Science Degree from the University of Arizona, Tucson and a Master's of Business Administration Degree from National University, San Diego.  Prior to her Faculty appointment at UC San Diego in 1973, she taught at the University of Arizona and Tulane University.

Judy was elected to a two year term as President of the NCAA in January 1991 and was Secretary-Treasurer of the NCAA from 1989 to 1991, becoming the first woman to serve in each of those positions. She was Division II Vice President, the presiding officer of that division, from 1986-88.  She has chaired the NCAA Budget Committee and the Special Advisory Committee to Review Recommendations Regarding Distribution of Revenues.  That committee was formed as a result of the successful negotiations with CBS television personnel, which resulted in a seven year television contract beginning in 1991, worth $1 billion.  Judy served as a member of the Negotiating Committee for that TV contract also.

Judy has also served on the Boards of Directors for the National Association of College Directors of Athletics and National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators.

In 1990 Judy was selected by Los Angeles Times as the Top Southern California College Sports Executive of the 80's.  In 1992 Judy was named Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Administrators and she received the W. S. Bailey Award from the Touchdown Club of Auburn-Opelika as the nation's distinguished athletic administrator.  She further was honored with a 1992 Giant Steps Award in Athletic Administration from the Center for the Study of Sport in Society.  She has received two honorary doctorate degrees.  In 1993 Judy was selected by the California State Senate as District 38 Woman of the Year and in 1995 she received a Big Ten Conference Centennial Award.  In 1998 she received The Honda Award for Outstanding Achievement in Women's Collegiate Athletics.