Joseph Robert Castiglione (born October 8, 1957) is vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics Programs and Director of Athletics at the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...

. Since his arrival at Oklahoma in April 1998, the school has won a total of twenty-five national championships in football (2000); softball (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); men's golf (2017); men's gymnastics (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018); and women's gymnastics (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023).

Early career

Castiglione is a 1979 graduate of the

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, where he played

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as a

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for the Terrapins. He was the athletic director at the

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from 1994 to 1998.

Oklahoma athletic director

Among his earliest and best-known moves as OU's AD came in December 1998 with the hiring of head football coach

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. Castiglione's decision quickly paid off as Stoops, a first-time head coach, immediately began work rejuvenating a program that had experienced a 10-year decline. Within two seasons, Stoops guided OU to its first national football title in 15 years and first conference championship since 1987. After 18 seasons that included 10

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titles, victories in all four

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games (Orange, Rose, Sugar and Fiesta), and four

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Winners ( Jason White in 2003,

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in 2008,

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in 2017 and

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in 2018), Stoops retired in June 2017 as the program's all-time leader in victories with 190. Castiglione received the 2004

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Award for athletic director of the year. He was named National Athletic Director of the Year in May 2009 by the SportsBusiness Journal. On February 19, 2018, it was announced he would be inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of fame.

Personal life

He also earned a Master's in Education from Oklahoma in 2007. A native of

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, Castiglione is married to the former Kristen Bartel, a 1990 graduate of the

. They are the parents of two sons, Joseph Jr. and Jonathan.

References

External links

Oklahoma profile
1957 births Living people Maryland Terrapins football players Missouri Tigers athletic directors Oklahoma Sooners athletic directors Sportspeople from Fort Lauderdale, Florida Castiglione, Joe College Football Playoff Selection Committee members {{Oklahoma-sport-stub