Player Profiles - of College Football Games

Tim W. W.
Selgo Selg - Director of Athletics
Tim W. Selgo enters his 12th year as athletic director at Grand Valley State. He was appointed athletic director
on February 12, 1996 and has put his own stamp of leadership on Laker athletics.
A promoter of a well-rounded athletic department, Selgo has been a key figure in the Lakers’ rise to the top
of Division II athletics. Grand Valley State University won its fourth straight United States Sports Academy
Directors' Cup in 2006-07, staking a claim as the top all-around athletic department in the country. The prestigious
award is presented annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA),
the United States Sports Academy and the USA TODAY to the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the
country. In addition to the Lakers’ four straight Directors’ Cup titles (2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07),
GVSU finished second in 2001-02 and 2002-03 in the Directors’ Cup standings. Selgo was named the Division
II Central Region Astroturf Athletic Director of the Year in 2006-07. Selgo was also honored as the Central
Region AD of the Year in 2002-03. A well respected leader in college athletics, Selgo has been appointed the
the NCAA DII Management Council and will be the president of the GLIAC for 2007-08.
Grand Valley State turned in another record setting year, scoring 995.75 points as 12-of-14 teams that counted
points towards the Directors’ Cup recorded top-10 finishes. In the fall, the Lakers took home the Division II
national championship in football, while also finishing runner-up in women's soccer, third in women's cross country
and fifth in men's cross country. Women's volleyball finished 17th. In the winter championships, GVSU finished third in women's indoor track &
field, and fifth in both the men's indoor track & field and men's basketball. Women's swimming & diving finished 23rd and men's swimming & diving
28th. The Lakers continued their stellar play in the spring, highlighted a fifth
place finish by women's outdoor track and field. Men's outdoor track and field
finished eighth, while baseball, women's golf and softball each finished ninth.
Rounding out the scoring was the 17th place finish in women's tennis and 36th
place finish in men's golf. Men's tennis was 33rd and men's golf 36th. GVSU
scored in 19 total sports, but only 14 sports count towards the final total, seven
sports in each gender. The Laker women scored 507.5 points (72.5 pps) and the
GVSU men tallied 488.25 points (69.75 pps). GVSU scored 400 points in the
fall, 299.5 poins in the winter and 296.25 points in the spring. The Lakers averaged
an incredible 71 points per sport as all 19 Laker sports advanced to NCAA
DII Championship play for the second straight year. In addition to team awards,
Grand Valley State coaches have earned several awards under Selgo’s helm.
Seven have been national coach of the year by respective agencies, while 12
have been named GLIAC Coach of the Year.
In addition, GVSU has won nine straight Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference President’s Cup titles as the top athletic program in the 13-team
GLIAC. GVSU has 70 GLIAC titles since 2000.
Selgo has been the key figure in the development of the athletic facilities and
programs at Grand Valley State. Construction has begun on the Movement Science and Recreation facility that will allow classes and athletic teams
the opportunity to work inside in inclement weather. The 137,662 square foot facility will have a 100 x 55-yard fieldturf surface, a six-lane track with
nine sprint lanes and batting cages that will drop from the ceiling. The Laker softball team will begin play on its new field in 2008. GVSU has expanded
its football stadium seating capacity to 8,550, added executive suites and added a new scoreboard the the added feature of a ProStar video display
board. The GVSU Football Center, located in the north end zone of Lubbers Stadium, has been expanded by more than 4,000 feet, and a new track
around the football field was installed in the summer of 1998. Lights were installed at Lubbers Stadium and the Rob Odejewski Weight Room was
built in honor of the late Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing and Promotions. The baseball and soccer fields have added press boxes, storage
space and concession areas. In addition, the fieldhouse locker room project, that enabled every varsity sport at Grand Valley State to have its own locker
room, was spearheaded by Selgo.
While at Toledo, Selgo was responsible for the day-to-day operations for Toledo’s 10 women’s and nine men’s sports teams that competed at the
Division I level in the Mid-American Conference. Selgo was instrumental in the marketing and promoting of all 19 sports that the Toledo athletic
department sponsored.
A native of Pettisville, Ohio, Selgo was inducted into the Toledo Athletic Hall of Fame in February of 2001. He was a standout basketball player
at Toledo from 1977-80, earning four varsity letters. The Rockets posted a four-year record of 87-26 during Selgo’s playing days on the hardwood.
Selgo participated in two NCAA Midwest Regional Tournaments for Toledo. His 1978-79 Rocket squad claimed a first-round, 74-72, win over Iowa,
before dropping a 79-71 decision to Notre Dame in the second round. In 1980, Selgo scored 18 points in Toledo’s 94-91 loss to Florida State in a firstround
NCAA Tournament game. Selgo was part of two MAC Championship teams (1978-79 and 1979-80) and was co-captain of the ‘79-80 squad.
He earned Mid-American Conference All-Academic honors in 1978, 1979 and 1980 and was named Senior Scholar/Athlete-of-the-Year at Toledo in
1980. Known as an outstanding shooter, Selgo still holds the UT record for free throw percentage in a single-season, converting 92.3 percent (48-of-
52) during the 1978-79 season. He also holds the Toledo career free throw percentage record in MAC games, hitting 86.1 percent (62-of-72) and the
single-season Rocket mark for MAC games of 93.9 percent (31-of-33).
Selgo graduated from Toledo in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a minor in mathematics. Following graduation, Selgo
remained at Toledo as a graduate assistant for the Toledo men’s basketball program and earned his master’s degree in education administration in 1982.
He then served as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Toledo from 1982-1985.
In 1985 he was named head women’s basketball coach at Toledo. Selgo served as head coach of the Rockets women’s basketball program for three
years, turning around a program that is now at the top of the MAC.
Selgo is married to the former Terry Bush and together the couple have three children: Jennifer (22), Rachel (20), and Daniel (14).