Stacy Martin Position: Senior Associate Athletics Director/ SWA Institution: San Jose State University

A San Jose State alumna, Stacy Martin was promoted to the position of Senior Associate Athletics Director/Chief Operating Officer in June 2008. Martin also begins the current academic year as the department's Senior Woman Administrator.

Having served the university in increasingly progressive and vital administrative roles, she recently was the Associate Athletics Director for Business and Finance. For two full years and part of a third, Martin had fiscal oversight for the department's $20-million annual budget that includes 16 sports, 28 departments and 115 employees. In a first for the Spartans, San Jose State finished each of the last three academic years with a budget surplus.

Martin's professional career started as a San Jose State ticket office employee in 2002. She moved to the business office in January 2003 and was promoted to Athletics Business Manager in 2004. In 2006, she was named an associate athletics director.

She is a member of NACDA (National Association of College Directors of Athletics), CABMA (College Athletic Business Management Association), Beta Gamma Sigma (International Honors society for studies in Business), WISC (Women In Sports Careers), NACWAA (National Association Of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators) and the Golden Key International Honor Society.

Additionally, Martin is a graduate of the Sports Management Institute - a collaboration of the Universities of Southern California, Notre Dame and North Carolina. The Sports Management Institute provides a specialized executive management program for sports management professionals. At the conference level, Martin is San Jose State's representative on the Western Athletic Conference finance, championships, gender equity and code book committees.

A four-time letterwinner and former captain of the Spartan women's gymnastics team, Martin has bachelor's and master's degrees from San Jose State University. The 2002 graduate majored in business administration and corporate financial management. She earned an M.B.A. in finance in 2005.