Santa Clara College President Julie Sullivan has introduced the appointment of Heather M. Owen J.D. ’03, Stanford College deputy athletics director/SWA (Senior Girl Administrator) as the following Broncos director of athletics. Owen, who earned a J.D. from Santa Clara College’s College of Regulation, is a former student-athlete and WNBA participant and is an completed athletics administrator who has risen quickly in positions of accountability at Stanford Athletics over the previous 15 years.
Sullivan cited Owen’s values-based strategy to supporting student-athletes, expertise with a number of points of athletics administration, and confirmed management accomplishment as key elements in her appointment.
“We’re in a transformative second for school athletics general, and several other essential qualities stood out that make Heather the best particular person to guide Santa Clara Athletics,” stated Sullivan. “She has excessive tutorial and athletic aspirations for her student-athletes, and the expertise, dedication, and observe file to assist them in achieving each. Her success as a student-athlete and WNBA participant reveals her aggressive nature and dedication to excellence. As a frontrunner, she has the smarts and strategic and operational acumen wanted to realize it—and, importantly, the candor, calm, and trustworthiness required to efficiently handle the challenges confronted in constructing a extremely aggressive program. In Heather, we have now discovered the right match.”
Owen seems ahead to rejoining the Bronco household at a pivotal second in its trajectory.
“I’m a proud Bronco with deep ties to the Bay Space, and am excited by the chance to guide Santa Clara Athletics, an excellent program that, just like the College, has been on the rise and acknowledged nationally for its excellence and development trajectory,” stated Owen. “I couldn’t be extra thrilled to imagine this management place and work with an unbelievable Bronco group of coaches, employees, student-athletes, alumni, and the College general to proceed the ascent and assist outline what an excellent athletics program will be for the Bronco household.”
Owen joined Stanford Athletics in 2008 and has served in a variety of positions that embody main the division’s growth efforts, serving as a sport administrator for girls’s basketball, soccer, males’s golf, ladies’s golf, and area hockey, and overseeing student-athlete assist companies, comparable to athletic coaching, bodily remedy, sport psychology, sports activities diet, and sports activities efficiency. She was a standout basketball student-athlete at Stanford and a two-time Pac-10 All-Educational choice who helped lead the Cardinal to a few NCAA Last 4 appearances. Owen performed professionally within the WNBA and overseas in France, whereas additionally pursuing a legislation diploma from Santa Clara, which she earned in 2003. She labored for 4 years as a working towards lawyer earlier than getting into athletics administration.
Owen will assume management of Santa Clara Athletics efficient September 17. She and her spouse Maggie are the proud mother and father of a three-year-old son. Owen succeeds Renee Baumgartner, who served 9 years within the position earlier than stepping down on June 30 to return dwelling to Oregon to take care of household well being points.
