BELMONT UNIVERSITY

Mike Strickland, the only athletic director of Belmont University’s NCAA Division I era and the longest-tenured AD in the Ohio Valley Conference, announced Monday he will retire effective June 30. The ascension of Belmont Athletics is nothing short of extraordinary. Under Strickland’s tenure the Bruin program completed transformational facility enhancement projects in the Curb Event Center and E.S. Rose Park, added six sports (women’s soccer, women’s golf, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field), transitioned from an NCAA Division I independent to the Atlantic Sun Conference – now the Ohio Valley Conference – all while claiming 45 conference championships and rising to national prominence. –Read More