CAROLAYNE HENRY

ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER, COMPLIANCE/SWA

Guiding the Mountain West Conference in the area of compliance and serving as the Conference's Senior Woman Administrator is Carolayne Henry. Her responsibilities at the MWC include overseeing NCAA rules compliance and governance, conducting the MWC's background check program for game officials, and serving as the staff liaison to various MWC committees.

Henry also works with conference senior woman administrators and faculty athletic representatives, as well as handling all legislative issues and coordination of the many MWC committee meetings. She was on the NCAA Academics/Eligibility Compliance Cabinet for four years (1999-2003). During this time she spent one year on the Division I Subcommittee on Financial Aid, and three years on the Division I Subcommittee for Student-Athlete Reinstatement. Henry spent six years on the reinstatement committee with three of those as chair. She also spent two years on the Division I Women's Basketball Issues Committee (2001-2003). Henry was the MWC representative to the Division I Management Council for four years (2004-2008). In this capacity she handled NCAA Management Council issues affecting the conference.

In the spring of 2008 (effective September 2008), Henry was named to the newly-created NCAA Division I Administration Cabinet. This cabinet is responsible for addressing Division I governance and membership issues. The cabinet also makes all Division I committee selections. In the spring of 2009 (effective September 2009), Henry was named to the Division I women's basketball committee, which is responsible for administering the Division I Women's Basketball Championship.

For nearly six years, Henry was a representative for NCAA membership services and coordinator for education. She interpreted and drafted legislation for the NCAA membership and acted as the liaison to several NCAA committees. In addition to her legislative duties at the NCAA, Henry prepared educational material, formulated a Division II conference seminar plan, organized videoconference presentations on NCAA rules for high schools and colleges, and coordinated NCAA regional rules seminars.

Prior to joining the NCAA staff, Henry practiced law in the private sector in the Pittsburgh area for three years. She holds court admission to the United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She was a practicing attorney from 1992-93 and a judicial law clerk from 1990-92.

A member of the University of Michigan women's basketball team from 1982-86, Henry graduated with her B.A. in political science from Michigan in 1986. She went on to study at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and earned a Juris Doctorate in 1990.

A Battle Creek, Mich., native, Henry currently resides in the Gleneagle area of Colorado Springs. She is currently serving a year-long term as the President of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA), after two stints on the the organization's Board of Directors (2000-2004, 2008-current). Henry received the 2005 NACWAA Nell Jackson Award, and attended the 2001 NACWAA Institute for Athletics Executives, the 1998 NACWAA/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement. She was a past member (1999-2003) of the Colorado Springs Girl Scouts Wagon Wheel Council Board of Directors and a member of the Black Coaches Association.