COOKEVILLE – Following 21 years leading the Tennessee Tech athletic department to new levels of success across the playing fields, the classroom and the community, Mark Wilson is resigning as director of athletics for the Golden Eagles effective June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
A national search will begin immediately for a director of athletics.
Wilson assumed his role as Tennessee Tech University’s director of athletics in July 2004.
Over his more than 20 years at the helm of the department, he has led the Golden Eagles to 45 Ohio Valley Conference regular season and tournament championships and 18 appearances in NCAA Championships, highlighted by the 2018 baseball team’s Super Regional appearance.
He has also championed Tennessee Tech’s commitment to academic achievement, with Golden Eagle student-athletes achieving 32 straight semesters with a department GPA above 3.0. In his tenure, 19 individual members of the purple and gold have taken home the OVC Scholar Athlete Award, the league’s highest honor presented to student-athletes.
As a whole, Tech has claimed 23 OVC Team Academic Awards and earned two OVC Institutional Sportsmanship Awards.
“It has been a great privilege and my absolute honor to serve the thousands of amazing, high-achieving student-athletes of Tennessee Tech over the last 21 years,” Wilson expressed.
“I am proud of the academic, athletic, and community successes they achieved, with excellent teaching and leadership from the TTU faculty, coaches, and staff.”