AD Search ends with Greenspan

After three months of searching for a new athletics director, IU President Adam Herbert annouced today that Rick Greenspan would be the next athletics director at IU, effictive September 15.\nIn coming to IU, Greenspan left the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he served as director of intercollegiate athletics since 1999.\nGreenspan, will be IU's fourth athletics director in the last five years. He will be replacing Terry Clapacs, who served as both the athletics director and vice president and chief adminstrative officer since November 2002.\nThe athletics director search commmittee, led by IU Alumni Association President Ken Beckley interviewd 100 applicants, with intent of finding a director with great leadership skills and integrity, Herbert said.\n"We have found a leader who has a depth and breadth of experience in athletics admistration that addresses all of the criteria we sought," Herbert said. "We have found a leader who clearly understands the overarching significance of our academic mission and priorities at Indiana Univeristy"