Peg Bradley-Doppes Position: Director of Athletics Institution: University of Denver

Peg Bradley-Doppes is in her fourth year at DU after being appointed the University's 12th Director of Athletics and Recreation on March 28, 2005. A 28-year veteran of NCAA Division I programs where she served as head coach for 11 years and an athletics administrator for 17 years, Bradley-Doppes served as Director of Athletics and Recreation at DU her first season prior to being promoted to Vice Chancellor of Athletics and Recreation and Ritchie Center Operations in July of 2006.

Bradley-Doppes' 13 years of NCAA committee service includes Management Council, Division I Women's Basketball, the Committee on Women's Athletics, Division I Volleyball, Peer Review Team, Olympic Sports Liaison Committee and the newly-formed prestigious NCAA Division I Leadership Council.

In 2007-08, The Pioneers finished a school-best No. 47 in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup and ranked No. 1 among all I-AAA, Sun Belt Conference and Front Range institutions. Eight coaches earned Coach of the Year accolades. For her efforts, Bradley-Doppes was named AstroTurf AD of the Year by NACDA.

Bradley-Doppes was director of athletics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1999 to 2004. She joined UNCW following a successful stint at Michigan, where she served as senior associate athletics director and senior women's administrator, overseeing 130 employees and managing a budget of $20 million.

As a successful volleyball head coach at Michigan, North Carolina and Miami University, Bradley-Doppes compiled a 304-144 (.679) overall record with four conference championships and three Coach of the Year honors.

In July of 2004, Bradley-Doppes was named the General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletics Director by the All-American Football Foundation, and that October the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators named her Administrator of the Year in Division I-AAA (non-football programs). The Cincinnati, Ohio, native received her bachelor's degree in health and physical education from the Mount St. Joseph in 1979, and completed her master's degree in health and physical education from Miami (Ohio) in 1981.