Beth Presley
Assistant Athletic Director/SWA
Phone: 479-788-7575
Email:
bpresley@uafortsmith.edu
During her 10 years as executive director of The First Tee of Fort Smith, Beth Presley built the program into one of the best of its kind in the nation.
A proven athletic administrator at the collegiate and community level, Presley begins here third season as assistant athletic director and senior woman administrator.
A senior woman administrator is the highest-ranking female involved with the management of a member institution’s intercollegiate. She is a member of the senior management team, a key decision-maker directly involved with the athletic department, a management team member collaboratively addressing department goals, a management team member collaboratively supporting and managing gender equity and Title IX matters.
She also is an advocate of issues important to female and male student-athletes, coaches and staff; an educator on issues concerning both men and women, a role model and resource for students, coaches, administrators and others; and an administrator assisting student-athletes in balancing academics and athletics.
Presley, a Springfield, Mo., native, has a bachelor’s degree in education with an emphasis in health and coaching from Missouri State University and has a master’s degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in sports administration, marketing and promotions from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
Prior to joining the UA Fort Smith athletic staff, Presley was an athletics marketing and promotions assistant for the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and the director of external affairs for intercollegiate athletics at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs before taking over The First Tee of Fort Smith program.
Presley is married to husband Darryl, and the couple has two daughters, MaKenzie and Camryn.
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