CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- It wasn’t easy to get Jacqie Carpenter to sit still for an interview during last week’s CIAA basketball tournament. Carpenter, in her first year as the conference commissioner, spent time talking with sponsors, posing for pictures with sponsors presenting checks and talking to and meeting with her bosses, the CIAAs 12 chancellors and presidents. Every now and then, she even had time to watch a little basketball.
“It’s all just part of it,” she said Friday night during the men’s semifinals.
The tournament has thrived in eight years at Time Warner Cable Arena, but Carpenter and her staff made many tweaks and made a concerted effort to crack down on illegal use of the CIAA name for parties or the sale of unlicensed merchandise.
Carpenter, a former basketball star at Hampton and a 1991 graduate, worked for the NCAA for nine years and helped run many of its championships.
She’s still a little bothered that she never won a CIAA title as a player, but being back as commissioner brought her full circle.
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