Donna Lopiano, PhD, is the former chief executive officer of the Women’s Sports Foundation. According to The Sporting News, she is listed as one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Sports.” She received her bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University and her master and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. She has been a college coach of men’s and women’s volleyball, and women’s basketball, and softball.
As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame, and the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame.
Lopiano previously served as the University of Texas director of Women’s Athletics for 17 years, and the president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. She is a former member of the United States Olympic Committees Executive Board.
Lopiano is currently the president and founder of Sports Management Resources, a consulting firm that focuses on bringing the knowledge of experienced, expert former athletics directors to assist scholastic and collegiate athletics departments in solving growth and development challenges.
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