Richard Stockton College has
selected Corrinne Wright as its Associate Director of Intercollegiate
Sports. Wright
will serve as the senior woman administrator, supervise the coaching
staff, and perform duties such as compliance, scheduling, team travel
and advising the student-athlete advisory committee for Stockton's
17-sport intercollegiate athletics program. She will begin at Stockton
on July 5.
Wright will join the Stockton athletics department after four years as
an Assistant Commissioner of the 11-member Northeast Conference. At the
NEC, Wright was responsible for all matters relating to NCAA compliance
including interpreting NCAA and conference legislation, conducting
on-campus compliance reviews and assisting with the NCAA certification
process. Wright also supervised numerous conference championships at the
NEC including women's volleyball, women's soccer, swimming & diving and
softball.
"We are very pleased to add Corrinne to our staff," said G. Larry James,
Stockton Dean of Athletics and Recreational Programs and Services. "Corrinne
has a strong background in college athletics as an administrator and
former student-athlete. We look forward to her contributing to the
continued growth and success of intercollegiate athletics at Stockton."
Wright also possesses experience from stints as the Assistant Director
of Athletic Compliance at Syracuse University and Assistant Athletic
Director at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. She graduated from
the University of Georgia in 1991 with a degree in Social Work and
earned her Juris Doctorate from the New York Law School in 1996. As a
student-athlete at Georgia, Wright was a nine-time All-American in
gymnastics who won the NCAA all-around and floor exercise titles in
1989. She helped lead the Bulldogs to two gymnastics national
championships and she later was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of
Fame.