Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Activities
Timeline
Generic

Kurt McAfee

Athletic Director
Wichita,KS

Summary

Team-oriented Athletic Director proudly offering over [Number] years' experience overseeing the department's annual budget, recruiting valuable coaches and staff and arranging transportation for athletes. Personable professional experienced in managing student eligibility and ensuring that staff members observe all federal and state rules and regulations. Promoting effective organizational and communication skills.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Athletic Director

Wichita Collegiate School
Wichita, KS
08.2022 - Current
  • Manage all facets of an athletic program, including scheduling, hiring coaches, promoting programs and events, ordering equipment, constructing budgets, and facilitating operations
  • Serve as mentor to student-athletes and provide guidance when needed
  • Resolve administrative issues and work closely with individual coaches to ensure there are no scheduling conflicts with shared equipment and workout rooms, game days, practice days, and days off
  • Work with school administrators and faculty student-athletes, maintaining their academic eligibility
  • Arranging travel logistics for all sports teams to attend away games
  • Maintaining and overseeing the athletic and sports facilities
  • Building community relations and handling media inquiries
  • Developing and implementing processes and procedures for the athletics department to ensure the school complies with athletic rules and regulations
  • Participate in fundraising events and manage the athletics department's budget
  • Ensuring both boys' and girls' sports teams receive the same amount of attention and dedication.

Athletic Director

The Independent School
Wichita, KS
08.2016 - 06.2022
  • Daily management and operation of the Middle and High School, reporting directly to the Head of Schools and serving as a cabinet member responsible for successfully implementing the athletic department's mission, vision, and strategic plan
  • Evaluated the bottom line to design a new athletic department budget process that relieved the administration of an annual systemic deficit, resulting in a balanced budget since my arrival and a reduced budget by 15%
  • Excellent experience as a coach and athletic director
  • Select and maintain a staff of highly qualified and successful head coaches
  • Reduced staff turnover by 30%
  • Through the NIAAA accredited program, a certification of completion as a national board-certified Registered Athletic Administrator
  • Maintained and managed eligibility requirements and a strong familiarity with KSHSAA rules and regulations
  • Directed recruitment of student-athletes by college coaches
  • Proficiency with MS Office, Windows OS, email, and Internet usage/research.

Vice President of Marketing and Event Planning

Wichita Sports Commission
Wichita, KS
07.1998 - 11.2018
  • Recruiting new sports-related conventions, events, and other sports-related business, as well as maintaining relationships with national governing bodies, conducting direct sales efforts through targeted sales missions, sales calls, and participation in trade shows designed to reach planners and events rights holders to collect Request for Proposals (RFP) and respond accordingly
  • Responsible for appropriate and timely follow-up
  • Manage respective clients from initial contact through the event’s conclusion and assist with the follow-up of the post-event evaluation and next bidding opportunity
  • Prospect new events and contact planners via various methods, including but not limited to telephone calls, letters, and email correspondence
  • Represent The Greater Wichita Sports Commission at local, regional, and state exhibitions or conferences such as Sports Events & Tourism Association (Sports ETA), NASC and TEAMS, or other organizations/associations as directed
  • Responsible for enhancing economic growth in The Greater Wichita Area by marketing, promoting, developing, and coordinating meetings, conventions, conferences, tradeshows, and special events for the city by working closely with meeting planners, event coordinators, and executive directors
  • Developed a department's database to maintain accurate and detailed records of prospects, leads, new business, sales calls, existing client interaction, and group servicing activity.

Athletic Director/Vice President

Pratt Community College
Pratt, KS
06.2006 - 08.2016
  • Provide administrative oversight for the department's internal operations, including day-to-day business operations, cost centers, institutional audits, NJCAA financial reporting, EADA Report, Clery Act reporting, ticketing, and concessions operations
  • Develop, analyze, and review ancillary and PCC budgetary and financial data; control and authorize expenditures related to the Athletic Department
  • Launched Academic enhancements and initiatives by creating PASS: Program for Academic Success of Student-Athletes; increased retention by 5 % and raised the overall athletic department GPA
  • Establish positive relationships with various campus offices, including Academic Affairs, Admissions, and Development/Foundation
  • Primary emphasis on increasing Community and Alumni partnerships in the local community and focusing on cultivating regional and national partnerships
  • Cut insurance cost by 35% by negotiating a discount on MRI and eliminating student insurance on students covered by parents' insurance
  • Successfully raised $385,000 to renovate the Denis Lesh Sports Arena, added a soccer pitch to the Stanion Sports Complex, and raised all the funds for a new indoor softball hitting facility under budget
  • Business development, profit, and loss analysis while remaining on the positive side of the budget
  • Re-started the wrestling program and added men and women's soccer
  • Re-established the Booster Club, an athletic fundraising organization that had been dormant for 20 years
  • Procured an all-school agreement with Under Amour.

Director of Marketing Projects

Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
11.2005 - 06.2006
  • Responsible for developing and supporting the University’s branding and marketing communications strategy, overseeing budget-restricted projects and events while supervising a small, qualified workforce
  • Managing, placing, tracking, and analyzing the advertising program through all media, liaising with agencies and vendors to ensure efficient and proactive use of promotional funding
  • Counseling internal university clients as needed on the practical application of marketing communications, media and advertising, interactive communications, and marketing strategy to meet customers and college marketing goals.

Education

Master -

Wichita State University

Associate of Science -

Wichita State University

Skills

  • Staff Recruiting
  • Game Management
  • Student Safety Programs
  • Team Building
  • Good Work Ethic
  • Athletic Department Services
  • Customer Service
  • Planning & Organizing
  • Microsoft Office
  • Effective Customer Communication

Activities

  • Bryce Roderick Award of Excellence KJCC Region VI Athletic Director of the Year
  • National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region VI Director
  • NJCAA National Cross Country Chair
  • NJCAA National Committee Member (Football, Basketball, and Baseball)
  • Graduate of the Kansas Community College Leadership Institute (KCCLI)
  • Past President of the Pratt Chamber of Commerce
  • Past President of the Kansas Collegiate Officials Association
  • Past President of The Greater Wichita Officials Association
  • 2019 Greater Wichita Officials Associations Hall of Fame
  • 2014 Biddy Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee
  • Voting and original member of the Buster Posey Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award
  • Supervisor of Officials - Kansas Collegiate Athletic Association
  • Kansas Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (KIAAA) Athletic Director of the Week
  • NCAA D-II Football and Basketball Official
  • Officiated the 2006 NJCAA National Championship Football Game
  • Officiated the 2014 NJCAA National Championship Basketball Tournament
  • Officiated over 30 Kansas State High School Championships
  • Big XII Play Clock Operator
  • Two Year Starter and Captain of the Pratt Community College Baseball Team

Timeline

Assistant Athletic Director

Wichita Collegiate School
08.2022 - Current

Athletic Director

The Independent School
08.2016 - 06.2022

Athletic Director/Vice President

Pratt Community College
06.2006 - 08.2016

Director of Marketing Projects

Wichita State University
11.2005 - 06.2006

Vice President of Marketing and Event Planning

Wichita Sports Commission
07.1998 - 11.2018

Master -

Wichita State University

Associate of Science -

Wichita State University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Kurt McAfeeAthletic Director