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Julie Cromer is the athletic director at
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in
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and served as a co-chair of the
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Transformation Committee. She is the first female athletic director for the
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.


Early years

Julie Cromer grew up in Southern Missouri. She received her
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from
Missouri State University Missouri State University (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second-largest u ...
in 1993. She earned a
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in Policy Analysis from the
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at
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in 2010.


Career

She began her career in athletics working for the
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. She later served as Assistant Athletic Director at
Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in ...
. She left Wright State to begin a ten-year duration at the
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(NCAA) where she served as Director of Academic and Membership Affairs. She then served as Executive Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator (SWA) at
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for four years and the Senior Deputy Athletics Director at the
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for six years. As interim Athletic Director at Arkansas after Jeff Long was fired, she fired football coach
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.


Ohio

On August 31, 2019, she was hired by Ohio University to become the schools Athletic Director following Jim Schaus who left to become the Commissioner of the
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. During her first year, the Ohio Football Team won the Idaho Potato Bowl. The following year the Ohio Men's Basketball Team won the
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and upset
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(AAC) regular season champion
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in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This was the school's first tournament win since a sweet sixteen appearance in
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. On July 14, Cromer promoted long time
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to head football coach at Ohio following the unexpected retirement of Solich prior to the
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. After struggling to a 3–9 record in 2021, Albin led the Bobcats to a 7–1 mark in the
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in
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as Ohio won the MAC East for the first time since
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. They lost to
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in the
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. Ohio defeated
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in the Arizona Bowl The Bobcat's football team had their 2nd straight 10 win season in
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. Ohio played
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in the Myrtle Beach Bowl where they scored 41 points with the aid of five forced turnovers by the defense to cruise to a 41–21 victory. In 2024 the
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had a third straight ten win season. At 7–1 in MAC play they qualified to play
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in the
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Ohio defeated
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in the
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to give the Bobcats their first conference championship since 1968.
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left the team to accept the head coaching position at Charlotte She named asscociate head coach Brian Smith as the next head coach Ohio then won the
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by as score and Ohio its first ever 11 win season, and extended Ohio's bowl winning streak to six games. On August 15, 2023 she was named NCAA Division I FBS Nike Executive of the Year. On March 20, 2024, she was named NACDA Athletics Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.


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Ohio Bobcats Athletics bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cromer, Julie 1971 births Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Ohio Bobcats athletic directors Arkansas Razorbacks athletic directors Missouri State University alumni Indiana University alumni Women college athletic directors in the United States Indiana University staff