NJAC NEWS ARCHIVE

 2004-05

April 28, 2005


WRIGHT NAMED ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS
AT RICHARD STOCKTON


HALL OF FAME GYMNAST TO JOIN OSPREY STAFF ON JULY 5 


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.