CARRIE COLL

ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER, CHAMPIONSHIPS

Carrie Coll, who was promoted to Associate Commissioner for Championships in July 2006, is charged with directing the 14 Mountain West Conference championships and supervises 17 regular-season MWC sponsored sports. Coll works with institutional and organizational hosts of the Conference championships to implement three fall, four winter and seven spring championships. Additionally, she oversees game management policies, creates conference schedules and works with MWC broadcast partners VERSUS, CBS C and The Mtn. on televised Mountain West games and events.

Coll is the staff liaison to the various MWC Sport Committees and is one of the liaisons to the Joint Council Senior Woman Administrators. She also works with the Conference's representative to the NCAA Championships/Sport Management Cabinet regarding issues affecting the Conference. Additionally, Coll was a member of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee from 2002- 2005; serving as chair of the Committee her final year and is currently serving a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee.

Before her move to the conference office, Coll spent four years at the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA), most recently as the Senior Director of Events and Elite Athlete Relations. Coll joined the USFSA as an events coordinator in 1998 and was promoted to Director of Events in 1999 and to her senior director position that same year. At the USFSA, she directed international and domestic televised figure skating events, including the State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships and served as the primary production contact for ABC Sports. Her other responsibilities included managing bid proposals, selecting event sites, and negotiating venue contracts. Coll is credited with developing an event management and accreditation software package designed to facilitate event planning and tighten event security. During her tenure, she raised over $650K for the USFSA Memorial Fund by producing a star-studded figure skating exhibition at Madison Square Garden in New York. Coll also provided consultation on the Olympic figure skating events for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee and served as Chief of Sport Services during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

A graduate of the University of Colorado, Coll earned her undergraduate degree in kinesiology, and started her career as a student athletic trainer in CU's sports medicine program. She went on to become a certified athletic trainer and received her master's degree in sport management from the University of Kentucky while working as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the Wildcats.

A native of Danville, Calif., Coll lives in the Pine Creek community of Colorado Springs with her husband, Dermot, an Associate Athletic Director at the Air Force Academy. They are expecting their first child in September.