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| Screen grab from Dartmouth press release |
A few outtakes from the press release:
Dartmouth has a new director of athletics, President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 announced today. Mike Harrity, the deputy athletics director and chief operating officer for the Army West Point Athletic Association, takes up leadership of Dartmouth’s athletics department on July 18.
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Among his many accomplishments during his two years at West Point, Harrity has had direct responsibility for several of the day-to-day functions of the 30-team, 1,100-cadet-athlete department—including as lead executive for the annual Army-Navy football game—and played a key role in strategizing a $95 million capital campaign to improve the academy’s historic Michie Stadium.Before West Point, Harrity served eight years as senior associate athletics director and one year as associate athletics director for student-athlete development and community programming at the University of Notre Dame. There, among other accomplishments, he partnered with the university counseling center to create dedicated counseling and sport psychologists, helped establish a leadership academy for student-athletes, and partnered to create Notre Dame’s first student-athlete accessible study-abroad program.
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In 2012, Harrity published Coaching Wisdom: Champion Coaches and Their Players Share Successful Leadership Principles, based on interviews with 13 top coaches in the NHL and NFL as well as at the NCAA Division I level.
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Harrity earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in education with a focus on sports administration from the University of Kansas.
Find the full press release HERE.
