Kentucky athletics has lost one of its senior administrators as DePaul University announced that it has hired DeWayne Peevy to be its next athletics director.

Peevy will take over at DePaul on Sept. 1. He is currently the deputy athletics director at UK with a special focus on men’s basketball.
“From the moment I met DeWayne, I knew immediately that his integrity and passion combined with his impressive collegiate athletics experience would elevate DePaul and its student-athletes to even higher levels,” DePaul President A. Gabriel Esteban said in a statement. “A visionary leader who cares deeply about his community, DeWayne demonstrates the Vincentian personalism we value so much at DePaul. Jo and I look forward to welcoming DeWayne, Allison and their two children to the DePaul family.”

Peevy was at UK for 12 years at Kentucky, and worked in fundraising efforts, strategic planning and media relations. He served as the liaison to the SEC and SEC Network offices, and oversaw Kentucky men’s basketball, considered the most successful NCAA Division I basketball program in history both in terms of all-time wins and winning percentage.

“DeWayne is someone I trust wholeheartedly, to the point where he became the center of our scheduling and worked hand-in-hand with me on just about everything we do. It made it so that he and I talked every day, oftentimes multiple times a day,” Kentucky men’s basketball head coach John Calipari said. “DePaul will see quickly that DeWayne is a gatherer, a listener, a consensus builder and an idea man who gathers the right people in place to execute. I can’t wait to see what happens for the athletic department at DePaul and for DeWayne personally.”