July 6, 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Recently retired Penn State Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator Sue Delaney-Scheetz has been named a 2011 NACWAA Administrator of the Year award recipient. After 29 years at Penn State, Delaney-Scheetz retired from her post on March 31, 2011.
"I was very surprised when Tim (Curley) informed me that I was to receive an NACWAA Administrator of the Year Award in Division I," said Delaney-Scheetz. "I feel honored to be included with this year's other award winners in various categories and am humbled knowing many of the past recipients in Division I."
Delaney-Scheetz is one of eight winners to receive the award this year. Other recipients to be honored at the NACWAA National Convention are: ThemyAdachi (Mills College), Wendy Taylor May (University of California San Diego), Karen Morrison (NCAA), Carolyn O'Connell (Loyola University Chicago), CarolHowe-Veenstra (College of Saint Benedict), Donna Woodruff (Stony Brook University) and Theresa Yetmar (Baker University).
Delaney-Scheetz won two national championships as head coach of the Nittany Lions' women's lacrosse team. During her time as an administrator, Penn State women's teams have won four NCAA championships, 46 regular season Big Ten championships, and 11 conference tournament titles. Penn State also won three combined national titles in fencing during her time as SWA.
Since the fall of 2008, six Penn State's women's teams have won a combined 12 Big Ten titles. In addition to tremendous athletic success, Penn State's women's programs earned a combined 3.26 grade point average in 2008-09.
"I would like to congratulate Sue Delaney-Scheetz for receiving such a prestigious award," said Penn State Director of Athletics Tim Curley. "After making numerous contributions to our athletic department during her tenure as an educator, coach and administrator, Sue is an outstanding choice for this honor. This award recognizes the great accomplishments that women administrators in college athletics have made totheir respective institutions, and Sue is certainly very deserving of such an honor."
The Administrator of the Year Award, sponsored by Jostens, is presented annually to NACWAA members for significant contributions made as administrators in intercollegiate athletics. Selected by the NACWAA Awards Committee, top nominees are awarded from seven categories: NCAA Division I FBS, FCS, and Division I; NCAA Division II; NCAA Division III; NAIA/NJCAA/Community College and Association/Organization.
"NACWAA is a great organization for women athletic administrators throughout the country," said Delaney-Scheetz. "It has been my pleasure to work with so many truly outstanding women in this profession over the years."
Delaney-Scheetz joined the Penn State staff as an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach in 1982. She became the head lacrosse coach in 1986, spending four years in that position. She led Penn State to two national championships (1987 and 1989),accumulating a superb 67-9 record while also earning two National Coach of the Year awards.
She was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director in 1989 and became Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator in 2002.
Delaney-Scheetz has served on numerous committees nationally as well as at the conference and University levels. Most recently, Delaney-Scheetz represented the Big Ten and Penn State as a member of the NCAA Championships Cabinet from 2005 to the summer of 2010. She also twice served as a member of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Committee, first from 1987-93 and again from 1999-2003 as the committee's chair. She assisted with the U.S. National Lacrosse team, accompanying the team to the 1986 World Cup and to England and Scotland in 1987.
At the Big Ten level, Delaney-Scheetz served on the conference's Program and Budget Committee, Joint Group, Administrators Council, Legislative Review Committee, Sport Management Committee, and Sport Management Executive Committee at various times throughout her administrative tenure.
After notable achievements at all levels in the lacrosse community, Delaney-Scheetz was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2000, and is also amember of the U.S. Lacrosse Pennsylvania Chapter Hall of Fame. Additionally, the American Lacrosse Conference, of which Penn State is a member, recently established the Susan Delaney-Scheetz Senior Scholar Athlete Award, an honor to be presented annually to the graduating senior with the highest overall grade point average among the league's student-athletes.
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