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May 29, 2003
NACMA Inducts Plonsky Into Hall of Fame
The induction ceremony will occur on Sunday, June 15 at the NACDA Directors' Cup Awards Luncheon during NACMA's 12th Annual Workshop at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. NACMA is the first organization of its kind to provide educational and networking opportunities, enhancement of acceptable operating standards and ethics, and establishment of the overall prestige and understanding of the profession of athletics marketing administrators. NACMA is administered by NACDA, which is now in its 38th year. NACDA serves as the professional and educational association for more than 6,100 college athletics directors, associates, assistants and conference commissioners at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. Through its series of management seminars, clinics and workshops and publication of the bi-monthly magazine Athletics Administration, NACDA offers educational opportunities to its members. More than 1,200 athletics administrators annually attend the NACDA Convention. Additionally, the Association operates the NACDA Directors' Cup program, which honors the all-sports champion in each of the NCAA Divisions -- I, II, III -- and the NAIA, for a total of four trophies. Plonsky is in her 15th year with the University of Texas. Since October, 1993, she has supervised external services for both the men and women's departments. In April, 2001, she was named interim director of women's athletics. In September, 2002, she took on that role on a permanent basis. Plonsky is the 2003 chair of the NCAA Division I Management Council and was vice chair in 2002; and serves on both NACDA and the NCAA's Executive Committees. She is also on the board and awards committee of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. She is a past president of NACMA and was on the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four Media Coordination Committee from 1987-2002. Additionally, she has worked with USA Basketball for nearly a decade and is currently a member of the organization's executive committee, serving a second term as vice president for women's programs. She is chair of the USA Basketball Women's Collegiate Committee and was recently appointed to the newly-formed FIBA Commission for Women's Basketball. Prior to her tenure at Texas, Plonsky worked at the Big East Conference for seven years where she was public relations director, assistant commissioner for public relations and associate commissioner for administration. She had also been the sports information director at Texas and Iowa State University. Plonsky graduated magna cum laude from Kent State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1979 and lettered in women's basketball from 1975-78. While attending Kent State, she was the women's basketball team co-captain as a junior and Kent's women's SID for three years as an undergraduate.
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