Sandy Barbour

[2] In 2018, she was named one of five finalists for Sports Business Journal’s prestigious Athletic Director of the Year.

[3] Barbour is a member of the NCAA Football Oversight Committee, serving as Chair beginning in July 2021 for a term to end June 2023[4] and represents the Big Ten Conference on the NCAA Division I Council.

[5] In 2017, she was selected as one of the inaugural members of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s (USOC) Collegiate Sports Sustainability Think Tank.

The Think Tank is charged with bridging the gap between high-contributing collegiate stakeholders and the Olympic Movement.

In March 2022, Barbour announced she would retire from Penn State in Summer 2022.