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Rick George Wins NACDA’s Athletic Director of the Year

On March 20, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Rick George was named the 2023-24 Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. The NACDA is in its 59th year with 22,000 athletic administrators across 2,200 institutions and is the largest gathering of college athletic staff in the country. George was named CU Boulder’s sixth-ever athletic director in 2013, and since then has overseen the school’s massive athletic department growth.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams finished with successful 2023-24 seasons, with the men’s team finishing with their most amount of wins in a season and the women’s team reaching a No.