Dallas, Texas
- The John McLendon Minority Scholarship Foundation, in partnership with the
National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) is proud to
announce that NACDA Past President and current Vice President and Director of
Athletics at the University at Albany Lee
McElroy was inducted into the John McLendon Minority Athletics
Administrators Hall of Fame as the NACDA representative on the evening of June
27, 2012. The induction ceremony was held in conjunction with the 47th
Annual NACDA Convention at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
McElroy, who
is in his 12th year as the Albany's vice president and director of
athletics, provides leadership for Albany's NCAA Division I 19-sport
intercollegiate athletics program for men and women. He served as NACDA's
President in 2006-07 and was recognized as the Under Armour Division I Football
Championship Subdivision (FCS) Northeast Region Athletic Director of the
Year. In 2010, McElroy was selected to the Minority Opportunities
Athletic Association (MOAA) Board of Directors.
During
his tenure, UAlbany has won 50 conference championships and made 19 NCAA
appearances in men's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, softball, women's
volleyball, baseball, women's field hockey and men's and women's track and
field. In 2004-05, the Great Danes were awarded the Commissioner's Cup as
the America East Conference's top athletics program.
He
was a key figure when the University successfully completed the NCAA's second
cycle of Division I athletics certification. He was honored with the 2004
General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletic Director Award by the
All-American Football Foundation.
McElroy,
who played football at UCLA in the late 1960s, was previously American
University's director of athletics for four years, where he also served as
president of the America East Conference Executive Committee in 2003-04.
In 1998, McElroy was named to the NACDA Executive Committee for the University
Division and chaired the Learfield Sports (previously Sears) Directors' Cup
Committee.
McElroy also spent time as the director of athletics
at California State University Sacramento and worked at the University of
Houston from 1981 to 1988 as assistant director of men's and women's sports and
as associate director of athletics, and for one year as the director of
athletics at The University of the District of Columbia.
