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Staff Directory
Ryan, Heather
Heather Ryan
- Title:
- Deputy Director of Athletics/Student-Athlete Experience
and Senior Woman Administrator
- Email:
- Phone:
- (919) 681-3160
Heather Ryan joined the Duke Athletics staff in 2005 and serves as the department’s Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Student-Athlete Experience & Senior Women Administrator. She previously held positions of Academic Coordinator, Director of Academic Support and Executive Director of Academic Support and Associate Director of Athletics/Academic Services & Senior Woman Administrator before being promoted to her current position in July 2021.
Ryan’s appointment as Duke’s SWA included an initial five-year term which started in July 2020. As defined by the NCAA, the purpose of the SWA designation is to promote meaningful representation of women in the leadership and management of college sports.
Additionally, Ryan is a member of the athletics department’s Executive Staff, the top administrative leadership under Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King. Ryan has oversight of student-athlete development, equipment, be the lead contact for NIL educational efforts while serving as the secondary administrator for football. She will continue to have sport oversight of men's and women's swimming and diving.
On the national landscape, Ryan currently serves as chair of both the NCAA 4-2-4 Transfer Waiver Committee and the NCAA Region 3 Post Graduate Scholarship Committee. She also is the active vice chair of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Women’s Lacrosse Committee. On Duke’s campus, Ryan serves as a panelist for the Institutional Undergraduate Conduct Board, is a member of the Athletic Oversight Committee and mentors students as a Trinity pre-major advisor.
Ryan, who came to Duke after serving as the Director of Academic Services in the athletic department at Tulane University, spearheads academic assistance for the Blue Devil women’s basketball and football programs and coordinates day-to-day support activities in the Johnson-Campbell Academic Support Center.
A native of Goodland, Ind., Ryan graduated from Indiana University in 1997 with a degree in sports marketing and management and later earned a master’s degree in college student personnel with an emphasis in counseling and development from Purdue University in 2002. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in educational leadership, policy and human development from N.C. State University with an anticipated graduation date of May, 2021.
(updated 7/29/21)
Ryan’s appointment as Duke’s SWA included an initial five-year term which started in July 2020. As defined by the NCAA, the purpose of the SWA designation is to promote meaningful representation of women in the leadership and management of college sports.
Additionally, Ryan is a member of the athletics department’s Executive Staff, the top administrative leadership under Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King. Ryan has oversight of student-athlete development, equipment, be the lead contact for NIL educational efforts while serving as the secondary administrator for football. She will continue to have sport oversight of men's and women's swimming and diving.
On the national landscape, Ryan currently serves as chair of both the NCAA 4-2-4 Transfer Waiver Committee and the NCAA Region 3 Post Graduate Scholarship Committee. She also is the active vice chair of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Women’s Lacrosse Committee. On Duke’s campus, Ryan serves as a panelist for the Institutional Undergraduate Conduct Board, is a member of the Athletic Oversight Committee and mentors students as a Trinity pre-major advisor.
Ryan, who came to Duke after serving as the Director of Academic Services in the athletic department at Tulane University, spearheads academic assistance for the Blue Devil women’s basketball and football programs and coordinates day-to-day support activities in the Johnson-Campbell Academic Support Center.
A native of Goodland, Ind., Ryan graduated from Indiana University in 1997 with a degree in sports marketing and management and later earned a master’s degree in college student personnel with an emphasis in counseling and development from Purdue University in 2002. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in educational leadership, policy and human development from N.C. State University with an anticipated graduation date of May, 2021.
(updated 7/29/21)
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