LSU reportedly reaches into Big 12 to hire No. 2 person in athletics department
By Keith Farner
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LSU has made a hire for one of its senior positions in the athletics department.
Pete Thamel of ESPN reported that West Virginia Deputy AD/COO Keli Zinn is expected to become the next LSU executive deputy atheltic director/COO. She replaces Stephanie Rempe as the No. 2 in LSU’s athletics department.
Keli Zinn is responsible for assisting the AD with the overall administration of the athletics department. She’s also the department’s primary liaison to the central administration, and works closely with WVU’s general counsel, strategic initiatives, finance and human resources. Zinn serves as the administrator to WVU’s football program with oversight to the daily operations, including areas such as finances, capital projects and infrastructure, contract negotiations, game day and postseason administration.
Zinn was West Virginia’s interim AD for about 3 months between 2014 and 2015, and been involved in numerous national, Big 12 conference and university committees over the years.
Those include the NCAA Division I Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement, NCAA Division I Legislative Committee, National Association for Athletics Compliance Education Committee, the NAAC Reasonable Standards Committee, the NAAC Professional Development Committee, the Atlantic Coast Conference Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, the BIG EAST Conference Sport and Championship Committee for Men’s and Women’s Tennis, Big 12 Bylaw Committee, the WVU Office of the President’s Social Justice Committee and the WVU College of Physical Activity and Social Sciences Advisory Committee. She is currently serving at the conference level as the Big 12 liaison for Gymnastics and Swimming & Diving. Regionally, Zinn serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Morgantown Convention and Visitors Bureau.
She previously worked in the Big East, and has 2 degrees from West Virginia.
Here’s her WVU bio.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
