Beth Goetz Named Deputy Athletics Director and COO

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The College of Iowa Athletics Division has named Beth Goetz as Deputy Director of Athletics and Chief Working Officer (COO). The announcement was made Wednesday by Gary Barta, Henry B. and Patricia B. Tippie Director of Athletics Chair. Goetz will exchange Barbara Burke, who beforehand introduced she is going to retire on the finish of the 2022-23 educational yr.

Goetz joins the Iowa athletics workers from Ball State College, the place she has served as Director of Athletics since Could, 2018. At Ball State, she instantly supervised 19 Division I Intercollegiate sports activities groups, all head coaches, and the senior athletics division skilled workers. Goetz has earlier Huge Ten expertise, serving as Minnesota’s Deputy Athletics Director from 2013-15 and interim Athletics Director through the 2015-16 season.

“Beth is a confirmed, skilled, and revered chief in faculty athletics,” mentioned Barta. “We’re excited to have her be part of the Hawkeye household.”

“The College of Iowa has a storied custom, and I wish to thank Gary Barta and President Barb Wilson for the chance to affix the Hawkeye household,” mentioned Goetz. “I look ahead to working with such an impressive group.”

Ball State has received 10 Mid-American Convention championships since Goetz was named athletics director, together with seven through the 2021-22 athletics marketing campaign, essentially the most since 1999-2000. Goetz has additionally guided Ball State to robust marks within the Reese and Jacoby Trophy standings, which honors the highest males’s and girls’s athletics applications within the MAC, respectively. The Cardinals positioned third within the Reese Trophy standings in 2021-22, their finest end since taking second in 2013.

Along with her function with the Cardinals, Goetz has been chosen for nationwide management duties. Goetz was named vice chair of the NCAA Division I Girls’s Basketball Committee previous to 2021-22 and is at the moment serving as chair in 2022-23. She was named by Girls Leaders in School Sports activities because the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS Nike Government of the Yr.

Goetz was acknowledged by the Indianapolis Enterprise Journal (IBJ) as one of many publication’s 2021 Girls of Affect, as Ball State student-athletes reached heights by no means earlier than achieved within the classroom. Ball State Athletics earned its highest-ever Tutorial Progress Fee (APR) with a rating of 992 in 2020-21, besting the earlier mark of 991 achieved in 2018-19.

As well as, Ball State produced back-to-back years with a Commencement Success Fee (GSR) of 90 %, which was a report excessive for the Cardinals and 23 factors larger than the numbers launched in 2013-14. Ball State is one among solely 4 colleges within the MAC to report consecutive years of 90 % GSR during the last two studies.

Among the many first initiatives Goetz tackled was the creation of a five-year strategic plan titled, Onward, which was created previous to 2019. The plan goals to foster an atmosphere that breeds educational success, impactful student-athlete expertise, aggressive excellence, neighborhood engagement, a way of spirit & custom, a Cardinal Tradition and monetary accountability, whereas embracing Ball State’s enduring values of Beneficence.

Goetz’ fundraising acumen has been on full show whereas at Ball State, highlighted by quite a few capital initiatives, together with the completion of the college’s $15 million Scheumann Household Indoor Follow Facility, which was financed totally with non-public donations.

Previous to arriving at Ball State, Goetz was the chief working officer/senior girl administrator on the College of Connecticut from 2016-18. She was the affiliate athletics director at Butler College from 2008-13 following a 13-year stint on the College of Missouri-St. Louis, the place she was an assistant girls’s soccer coach (1996), head girls’s soccer coach (1997-2008) and assistant athletics director/senior girl administrator (2001-08). Goetz was inducted into the UMSL Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2014.

Throughout her faculty profession Goetz was an achieved Division I student-athlete, taking part in soccer at Clemson College. She earned All-America recognition at Brevard School (N.C.), the place she was inducted into the faculty’s Corridor of Fame in 2017. Goetz earned an affiliate of arts diploma from Brevard in 1994 and a bachelor of arts diploma from Clemson in 1996. She earned her grasp’s diploma from the College of Missouri-St. Louis in 2000.

The Goetz File
2018-Pres.: Director of Athletics, Ball State
2016-18: Chief Working Officer/SWA, UConn
2015-16: Interim Director of Athletics, Minnesota
2013-15: Deputy Athletics Director/SWA, Minnesota
2008-13: Affiliate Athletic Director/SWA, Butler
2001-08: Assistant Athletic Director/SWA, Missouri-St. Louis
1997-2008: Head Girls’s Soccer Coach, Missouri-St. Louis
1996: Assistant Girls’s Soccer Coach, Missouri-St. Louis

Alma Mater: Clemson (1996)
Grasp’s: Missouri-St. Louis (2000)