UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

Sources told College AD, June 17th Tamica Smith Jones, the senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator at the University of Texas-San Antonio, would be hired to lead UCR’s athletic department. Today, the school announced hire. When she officially takes over on July 1, at what the school announced is a $225,000 salary, she will be UCR’s second female athletic director — Janet Lucas, who oversaw the department on an interim basis since last October, will return to her executive associate AD role — and its first African-American athletic director. More importantly, she will be a ball of energy from the moment she hits town, if her visit to the campus in early June was any indication at all. – BE. Read more.