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Jeff Bourne is in his 10th year as JMU's athletics director after working as an administrator in successful programs at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech for 13 years. At JMU, he directs a program that is competitive within the Colonial Athletic Association and at regional and national levels and that has positioned itself to continue play a major role in intercollegiate athletics. Bourne has overseen recent restructuring to bring JMU's program into full compliance with gender equity guidelines. He also has led plans to help insure the academic success of JMU student-athletes and is coordinating a facilities planning process that will provide the university with outstanding competition and fan venues for years to come. Under Bourne's leadership, JMU also has developed an enhanced volunteer fundraising network and a point-priority system to recognize donor participation and has implemented programs to increase game attendance and address the needs of athletics infrastructure. A major enhancement of JMU's sports medicine operation has taken place; yearly fundraising totals have increased significantly; and a strategic planning process to enhance the organizational structure of the athletics division is being implemented. During Bourne's tenure more than 1,000 conference academic honors have been given to JMU student-athletes, including CAA scholar-athletes, CAA commissioner's academic award winners and ECAC scholar-athletes of the year. JMU also has had four student-athletes receive NCAA post-graduate scholarships. Bourne served in several athletics roles at Virginia Tech from 1986-97 and was senior associate athletics director at Georgia Tech from 1997-99. At Georgia Tech, he supervised finance, marketing and promotions, ticketing, sports information, and radio and television broadcasts and production. He also was liaison to the Alexander-Tharpe fund, the university's development arm, and administered baseball and golf. At Virginia Tech, he was associate athletics director during his final two years, and he co-chaired a committee that reviewed gender equity at the school. A Salem, Va., native, Bourne was Virginia Tech's athletics business manager and then associate athletics director for administration and finance. Bourne received his Bridgewater College degree in business administration and accounting in 1981 and completed his master's degree in education and sports management at Virginia Tech in 1994. He worked for five years in public accounting and received his certification in public accountancy before moving to Virginia Tech, where he first was an internal auditor and a consultant to the athletic business office. He is a 1994 graduate of the Sports Management Institute Executive Program from the University of North Carolina and the University of Southern California. Bourne's wife, the former Mary Lou Garber, is a Harrisonburg area native and a Bridgewater graduate. They have two sons -- Jason (19), a JMU student, and Kyle (16). |
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