NICKI WEBBER MOORE

NICKI WEBBER MOORE, has been named director of athletics and physical education at Cornell University. She will become the university’s first female director of athletics when she begins her new role on Jan. 17. Moore currently serves as VP and director of athletics at Colgate University. At Cornell, Moore will succeed J. Andrew Noel, who took over as director of athletics in 1999 and has led the Big Red to 105 Ivy League team titles and 35 national championships (17 team, 18 individual). She takes the reins of an athletics program that features 37 Division I varsity sports, the fourth-largest portfolio of any school in the U.S., Cornell says. Moore has spent the last 18 years in athletics administration roles at the University of Oklahoma, the University of North Carolina, and Colgate. In addition to intercollegiate athletics, Moore will oversee Cornell’s recreation programs, physical and outdoor education programs, and campus athletics facilities. Moore was recognized as 2022 FCS Executive of the Year, by the organization Women Leaders in College Sports. She also recently served as president of the FCS Athletics Directors Association. Moore received her bachelor’s degree (1996), master’s (1998) and Ph.D. in counseling psychology (2002) from the University of Missouri, where she was a four-time captain on the track and cross-country teams.