University of Nevada Athletics

Women’s Basketball (1981-85) & Athletics Administration (1987-2000)
Played for the Wolf Pack women’s basketball team after starring at Reno’s Hug High School… joined the athletics staff at her alma mater in 1987 as women’s sports information officer… was promoted to assistant director of athletics and senior woman administrator in 1990 where she oversee a staff of 35 and a $2.8 million budget… was promoted to senior associate athletics director and second in command in athletics in 1999… founded Pack PAWS in 1995, a membership organization committed to Promoting and Advancing Women in Sports at the University of Nevada… secured the first $1 million gift to the Nevada’s women’s athletics program from the Wilbur May Foundation in 1997… also helped secure a second $1 million gift from the E.L Wiegand Foundation that primarily benefitted Wolf Pack women’s basketball.. Wolf Pack teams she oversaw won five conference titles… was instrumental in securing additional funding from the Nevada State Legislature that fully funded scholarships for existing women’s sports and allowed Wolf Pack Women’s Athletics to add women’s golf, women’s soccer and softball… helped Nevada increase its women’s athletics budget from about $700,000 to over $2 million in the 1990s… was active in the world of college athletics as a member of the NCAA Management Council and the NCAA Woman of the Year Committee and as a board member for the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators… left athletics in 2000 to become Nevada’s director of alumni relations… has continued to serve the northern Nevada community in both leadership and community service positions… was appointed to the Washoe County School District's Board of Trustees in the fall of 2014, becoming the first African American to serve in that capacity… also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for Guardian Quest, Inc., an organization that provides training, organizational development and leadership solutions for corporate, government, educational and military clients across North America.