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Athletic Administration
Athletic Administration
the assistant athletic trainer and administrative
assistant after spending a year as a graduate
assistant.
She was a member of the Indiana Athletic
Trainers Associaton and is currently a member of the
Kentucky Athletic Trainers’ Society. She is a NATA
certified athletic trainer with CPR certification.
A 1984 graduate of West Virginia University,
with a bachelors of science in secondary education,
she earned a master’s in health, physical education
and recreation in 1985 from Eastern Illinois
University.
Brad Brad Barber
Barber
Asst. Asst. Asst. Asst. Asst. Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic
Director Director Director Director Director for for for for for
Operations Operations Operations Operations Operations and and and and and
Tickets Tickets Tickets Tickets Tickets
Brad Barber is in
his 16th year as
Assistant Athletic
Director for Operations
and Tickets after
serving as assistant
ticket manager for three
seasons with U of L.
Barber coordinates all football and basketball
season ticket sales, along with ticketing for all single
game and post-season events. Freedom Hall is sold
out on a season basis while the U of L football team
has maintained a substantial season ticket base,
including a record 36,000 season ticket sales in 2006.
He also serves in the game management and
operations aspect for all varsity sports.
Barber earned his bachelor’s degree in education
from Rio Grande College in 1986. While completing
his undergraduate studies, he served as an assistant
basketball coach for Rio Grande from 1982-86.
He is married to the former Kim Morgan. They
have three children: Ryan, Kyle and Catie.
Rob
Rob
Brawner,
Brawner,
Jr.
Jr.
Asst. Asst. Asst. Asst. Asst. Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic
Director Director Director Director Director
for for for for for Internal Internal Internal Internal Internal
Affairs Affairs Affairs Affairs Affairs
Rob Brawner
is in his 21st year
on the U of L staff,
including the last
13 as Assistant
Athletic Director
for Internal Affairs.
He served as
assistant athletic director for operations and tickets his
initial five years.
Before joining the U of L staff, Brawner was the
Director of Admission Control for the Kentucky Fair
and Exposition Center, serving as the KFEC liaison
with the Ticketron corporation and operating the
KFEC Ticket Office.
A native of Springfield, Ill., Brawner received a
B.S. degree from Cincinnati Bible College in 1977.
He earned a Master’s Degree in Sports Administration
from Ohio University in 1985.
Brawner has also served as the Director of Tickets
of the Ohio High School class AAA, AA and A
sectional, district and regional basketball
tournaments. He served as assistant basketball coach at
Cincinnati Bible College in 1978-79.
He is married to the former Lori Higgins. They
have two children: Chris and Kelsey Morgan.
Alicia Alicia Alicia Clark Clark
Clark
Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic
Director Director Director Director Director for for for for for
Business Business Business Business Business
Alicia Clark, a U of
L employee for the past
16 years, is in her
eighth year as Assistant
Athletic Director for
Business.
Clark was a senior
auditor in the U of L
Internal Audit
department from 1990 until joining the athletic
department. An accounting graduate from the
University of Kentucky, she is a Certified Internal
Auditor and is a member of the Institute of Internal
Auditors and the Collegiate Athletic Business
Managers Association. Prior to working at U of L,
Clark was a bookkeeper for First State Bank in
Irvington, Ky.
Clark oversees the financial operations of the
business office and assists in the preparation of
financial statements.
A native of Brandenburg, she and her husband
Gary have two children: Ashton and Drew.
Cooper Cooper Jones
Jones
Asst. Asst. Asst. Asst. Asst. Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic
Director Director Director Director Director for for for for for
Development
Development
Development
Development
Development
Cooper Jones is in
his second year at U
of L as Assistant
Athletic Director for
Development and
Major Gifts.
Prior to joining the
U of L staff, Jones
served as Director of Major Gifts for four years at
the University of Maryland. In that role, he was the
primary fundraiser for capital campaigns focused
on the Terrapins' football, basketball, soccer, golf,
baseball and lacrosse programs. He aided in
facility campaigns that upgraded, expanded or built
eight new competition sites. He also participated in
the total men's basketball reseating of the 17,400seat
Comcast Center in 2002 and 2005.
Jones was Athletics Development Officer at
Georgia Tech before his stint at Maryland. While in
Atlanta, he was a member of the five-person
fundraising team for the Building a Competitive
Advantage Campaign, with a public goal of $80
million. He also was primarily responsible for the
project evaluation for the addition of skyboxes and
club level seating to Bobby Dodd Stadium. Among
his other responsibilities, Jones served as an Annual
Fund and Major Gift fundraiser for Georgia Tech
throughout the southeast United States.
A native of Conyers, Georgia, Jones earned a
bachelor’s degree in journalism & public relations,
with a Minor in history and health care
communications, in 2000 from Ohio University,
where he was a three-year football letterwinner and
senior tri-captain for the Bobcats.
Bryan Bryan Hicks Hicks
Hicks
Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic
Director Director Director Director Director for for for for for
Academics
Academics
Academics
Academics
Academics
Bryan Hicks is in
his 11th year with the
U of L Athletic
Department and fifth as
Assistant Athletic
Director for
Academics. He is
responsible for
overseeing academics
for the Cardinal football team and managing the Papa
John’s Cardinal Stadium Computer Lab.
Hicks serves on the University's Commission on
Diversity and Racial Equality (CODRE), the
Directors Council for University Wide Advising and
is coordinator for the athletics department program
S.C.O.R.E. (Student-Athletes of Color Combining
Opportunity and Responsibility for Excellence).
A native of Huntsville, Ala., Hicks attended
Tuskegee University and played on the basketball and
baseball teams there. He received his bachelors
degree in Marketing from Alabama A&M University
in 1992 and went on to receive his Masters in Public
Administration (MPA) degree from Portland State
University in 1996.
Hicks came to U of L after serving as assistant
men’s basketball coach and coordinator of
multicultural admissions at Warner Pacific College in
Portland, Oregon. While with the Cardinals, Hicks
has served as the compliance coordinator over
education and monitoring and as an academic
counselor.
Hicks and his wife, Kellie, are the parents of
three children -- two daughters, Hailey and Sydney,
and one son, Garrett.
Jim Jim McGhee
McGhee
Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant
Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Athletic Direc- Direc- Direc- Direc- Director
tor tor tor tor for for for for for Varsity Varsity Varsity Varsity Varsity
Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports and and and and and
Student Student Student Student Student Life Life Life Life Life
Jim McGhee, a
member of the U of L
athletic staff since
1977, is in his 13th year
as Assistant Athletic
Director for Varsity
Sports and Student Life at U of L.
McGhee assists with the operation of nearly all U
of L varsity sports programs (all except football and
men’s basketball) and has a number of additional
duties. He operated the NCAA National Youth Sports
Program, a summer program for at-risk boys and girls,
for the athletic department for 20 years.
McGhee joined the U of L athletic department in
1977 as assistant athletic trainer and football
equipment manager. After nine years in that role, he
became U of L’s equipment and facilities manager in
1986, a position he held until his most recent
appointment.
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