FRANKFORT, Kentucky -- Etienne M. Thomas has big plans for Kentucky State University athletics.Considering where she came from that comes as no surprise.
Thomas was named KSU’s new director of athletics on Friday, a hire the school is calling historic. Thomas comes to Frankfort from Kansas University, where she was associate athletics director for student life.
“This is historic,” school president M. Christopher Brown II said. “Not just for Kentucky State University, but we’ve been talking to the NCAA and they’re double-checking, as well as the SIAC (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference). This will be the first time that any of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities has recruited an athletic director from one of the power five conferences.”
In her role at Kansas, Thomas monitored, communicated with and advocated for student-athletes in the housing and university student code hearing proceedings, as well as partnered with the sexual assault prevention and education center to provide education, empowerment and prevention of sexual assault.
She previously served in athletics and compliance administrative positions at North Carolina Central, San Jose State, Howard and Saint Paul’s College.
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