Women Leaders Members Are Celebrating March Madness Victories!

Cherie Swarthout, athletic director from Queens Charlotte, is on a roll: Their men's and women's swimming and diving teams took home their third straight national championship. Plus, Queens Charlotte took down three DII records over the weekend. Read more here!

Congratulations to NEC Commissioner Noreen Morris, on her induction into the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hall of Fame Class pf 2017. Read more here!

#ThisisHUGE! Congratulations to Samantha Huge on the position of director of athletics at William and Mary. Thank you for moving the needle! Read more here!

Congratulations to Stevie Baker-Watson, athletic director at DePauw, for surpassing the school's original goal of $300 million in gifts and commitments to The Campaign for DePauw. Read more here!

Way to go Pennie Parker, athletic director and Women Leaders board member from Rollins College on making it to the elite 8! 

Congratulations to our UMKC Roos and Carla Wilson, UMKC athletic director for punching the ticket to the dance for the first time in school history! 

Congratulations to Kayleigh McCauley on her new title as the director of student-athlete development/deputy Title IX coordinator at Lewis and Clark.

Kudos to Janna Blais and the Northwestern men's basketball team for reaching the NCAA DI tournament for the first time in 78 years! Read more here!

Go Bulldogs! Athletic director at Drake University, Sandy Hatfield Clubb, women's basketball team is going to the dance! Read more here!

Congratulations to athletic director at Hostos Community College, Krishna Dass—2016 Women Leaders Administrator of the Year NJCAA award winner—on a fabulous season and bid to the national tournament. Read more here!
Congratulations to 2016 Women Leaders convention Nike Awards host, Debbie Antonelli, on kicking glass and being chosen as an on-air analyst for two rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Read more here!

The Women@Forbes' "Day in the Life" series follows Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman during her hectic March Madness stretch. Read more here! March Madness is one of our favorite times of the year, and it must be Val's too! With the Big East getting seventy percent of its MBB programs into the dance. Hear more from Val in her 1.Q podcast.

Kudos to each of you!

A warm welcome to our newest members:

Kendall Luy - Frostburg State University 
Sahar Rashid - NCAA
Rachel Wyman - Great Northwest Athletic Conference
Randi Napientek - Northern Illinois University 
Shawna Laurendine - Sewanee: The University of The South
Arielle Patterson - Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 

Have a member news to share? Email it to Natalie Martinez to be featured in the next Shout Out!