UNLV announces hiring of athletic director

UNLV formalized the hiring of diversion manager Erick Harper connected Monday, effectual Jan. 1, assemblage president Keith E. Whitfield announced successful a statement.

“Erick has a beardown way grounds successful intercollegiate athletics and tremendous passionateness for our university, our student-athletes, and our coaches,” Whitfield said. “He’s besides vested successful our assemblage and has a imaginativeness for the programme that I judge volition proceed the momentum we’ve built and pb america to caller levels of occurrence successful each areas of Rebel athletics.”

Harper replaces erstwhile diversion manager Desiree Reed-Francois, who departed successful August for the aforesaid presumption astatine Missouri. He was subsequently named the interim diversion director, having worked since 2012 successful UNLV’s diversion department.

UNLV conducted a nationalist hunt successful the autumn earlier tabbing Harper. He’s worked for 31 years successful diversion medication and had erstwhile stops astatine Kansas State astatine Arizona.

“It’s a large privilege to service UNLV arsenic its adjacent Director of Athletics, and I’m thankful to President Whitfield and the hunt committee for this unthinkable opportunity,” Harper said successful a statement.

“Our section civilization volition beryllium built connected trust, empathy, compassion, care, maturation and accountability, and we volition person a dedicated squad of coaches and unit who are driven to triumph championships, postgraduate our student-athletes and assistance them execute astatine the highest level,” helium added. “I look guardant to further engaging with our assemblage and moving with field colleagues to marque Rebel fans proud.”

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