VanderZwaag appointed athletic director

VanderZwaag

G eorge VanderZwaag, a longtime athletic administrator at Princeton University, has been named director of athletics and recreation effective July 1.

VanderZwaag comes to the University after serving in three different capacities at Princeton since 1991, most recently as senior associate director of athletics. He has a strong background in NCAA and Title IX compliance issues and serves as institutional liaison for NCAA certification. His primary emphasis at Princeton is for regulatory, academic, and student affairs issues for a 38-sport varsity intercollegiate athletic program.

He has coordinated championships on national, regional, and conference levels in a variety of sports, most notably men's soccer, men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, swimming and diving, softball, men's tennis, indoor track and field, volleyball, field hockey, and baseball.

VanderZwaag graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He earned his master of science degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1989.

At Rochester, he will oversee an athletic department that has 22 varsity intercollegiate sports as well as extensive recreation and intramural sports activities. Last month the University began a comprehensive renovation of the athletic and recreation complex.

VanderZwaag succeeds Jeffrey Vennell, who has served as the University's director of sports and recreation since November 1987.