Bruce Van De Velde, former AD at ISU, among 5 EIU finalists February 5, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: Bruce Van De Velde, Iowa State University Cyclones, Jean Berger, Larry Eustachy, Sports Administration
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From Journal Gazette/Times-Courier (Illinois):
… Van De Velde has experience as a major college AD in 2000-06 during the time Iowa State received negative publicity when basketball coach Larry Eustachy’s problems with alcohol [LINK] led to him being ousted.“Whenever you’re in a leadership role you have to make difficult decisions, you do that with the student-athletes best interest and when you do that you can’t go wrong,” Van De Velde said.Van De Velde soon departed from Iowa State as well.“I felt in five years I had done our work there and accomplished our goals there and it was time to turn the page and take on a new challenge,” he said. …
[Finalist Jean] Berger has been with Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, since August 1991, and currently serves as associate athletic director for student services/senior woman administrator. …
[...] February LIAI post about Van De Velde here: Bruce Van De Velde, former AD at ISU, among 5 EIU finalists. [...]