Joe Tubb Position: Director of Athletics Institution: South Plains College

Joe Tubb is in his 25th year as Athletic Director at South Plains College. His multifaceted duties include supervising all sports programs and coordinating other activities specifically designed to promote athletics at the college. In addition, he is responsible for the Texan Dome, the intramurals and recreational program and Texas High School University Interscholastic League events hosted by the college.

During Tubb's tenure at the college, the SPC track and cross country teams have won a combined 14 national titles. The Lady Texans and Texans basketball teams have won the WJCAC title a combined 16 times, while both teams have won the Region V tournament en route to the NJCAA National tournament seven times, most recently the Texans in 2008 and the Lady Texans in 2005. The SPC men's basketball team won the 2008 NJCAA National Championship. The college has also hosted seven National Championship events, most recently the 2008 NJCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Tubb is most proud of the success of the athletes in other avenues. Since 1983, almost 90 percent of scholarship athletes have graduated and an even higher percentage have moved on to four-year colleges or universities. He gives most of the credit to the high quality of coaches that South Plains College has been able to attract and to ASAP (Assistance for Student Athlete Program) that was installed over the years. This includes mandatory study halls, drug testing, faculty mentor program, special classes on time management, drug abuse, test taking and sex education, among others.

Tubb also oversees the operation of the Texan Club, the athletic booster club at SPC comprised of civic leaders and local business men and women. Tubb knows the value of student athletes at SPC. He played on the men's intercollegiate golf team under head coach Bill Powell as a student at SPC during the 1966-67 school years. He later transferred to West Texas A&M University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics with a minor in physical education and graduated as a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society in 1971. He earned a Master's degree in physical education in 1981 from Sul Ross State University. In 1982, Tubb was selected as an Outstanding Young Man of America. He returned to his alma mater as Director of Athletics in 1983 after a 12-year career as a high school coach and teacher.

Active in the community, Tubb is a past president and a Rotarian since 1983, past president of the Levelland Country Club, served as a local board member of the American Cancer Society, and past director of the George White District of Boys Scouts of America. He and his wife Kathy have been married 40 years and have a son Chad attending Sul Ross State University, and a daughter Lesli who is a coach's wife and teacher in Lubbock, Texas. Leslie has two children, Kayli and Kade.

Professionally, Tubb is a lifelong member of the Texas High School Coaches Association and a former member of the Basketball Advisory Committee. He has been Region Director for NJCAA Region V since 1999 and a member of the National Association of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators since 1989. He has sat on the NATYCAA board since 2001. In 2006 he was named Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA).