TULANE UNIVERSITY

Rick Dickson, Tulane University’s longtime Director of Athletics, has announced that he will retire in May 2016. Dickson has served as the Green Wave’s AD since 2000, guiding the athletics program through some of the most tumultuous periods in its history, including the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed the university’s athletics facilities. Dickson leaves an athletics program that in the last few years has joined the American Athletic Conference, opened Yulman Stadium and built or renovated numerous other facilities, including Greer Field at Turchin Stadium, Avron B. Fogelman Arena at Devlin Fieldhouse and the Hertz Center.