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Paul Schlickmann was named Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Stony Brook in August of 2003. In July of 2005, he was promoted to Executive Associate Director of Athletics. Schlickmann has nineteen years experience in intercollegiate athletics, including sixteen as a Division I athletics administrator, one in a conference office, and three as an assistant college basketball coach. As the Executive Associate Director of Athletics at Stony Brook University, Schlickmann is the Chief Operating Officer, managing the daily operations of the department. As part of the senior management team, Schlickmann manages department strategic planning initiatives, policy and procedure development and implementation, the coordination of short- and long-term facility improvements and capital projects, and all facets of fund raising, corporate development and revenue generation. Over the course of his tenure at Stony Brook, Schlickmann has directly supervised every functional area and every sport program during various stages of departmental growth and progression. He currently has direct oversight of, and responsibility for, approximately 30 full-time professional staff in several functional areas of the department, including External Services, Business Operations, Facility Operations, Planning and Capital Projects and all personnel matters. In addition, he serves as the Sport Administrator for the Football, Men's Basketball and Men's Lacrosse programs that include an additional 20 head and assistant coaches. Schlickmann has overseen a dramatic overhaul of Stony Brook's athletic facilities that include the $1.5 million enhancement of LaValle Stadium's South Building, which provided Stony Brook's Football and Men's and Women's Lacrosse programs with state-of-the-art locker rooms and meeting rooms, the new $1.5 million Goldstein Academic Center, a $1.5 million renovation of Pritchard Gymnasium and the $1.5 million construction of state of the art locker, meeting and video rooms for the Men's and Women's Basketball programs. Schlickmann will also oversee the future $20 million renovation of Stony Brook Arena. Schlickmann has a history of active involvement with campus, conference, and NCAA committees. He recently completed a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee and served as Chair of that committee in 2007. Schlickmann currently represents Stony Brook on the America East Championship/Competition Cabinet. During the 2005-06 academic year, he served as the chair of Stony Brook's organizing committee that hosted the 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Quarterfinals. At Stony Brook, Schlickmann has been active on three strategic committees appointed by the President including the Five Year Plan Task Force on Student Experience, the Campus Climate Task Force and the Campus Council on Diversity and Affirmative Action. Schlickmann is a 2008 graduate of the highly regarded Sports Management Institute and has been invited to attend the Division IA Athletic Director's Institute in the summer of 2008 and 2009. Schlickmann arrived at Stony Brook after 10 years as an athletic administrator at Yale, where he was Associate Director of Athletics for Varsity Program Administration and Football Operations, working in all facets of the school's daily programmatic operations. Over the course of his final four years at Yale, Schlickmann supervised the daily internal operations of 35 intercollegiate programs as a member of the senior management team. He was the Sport Administrator for the Men's Soccer and Men's Lacrosse programs while also overseeing event operations, developed and managed sport program operating budgets totaling nearly $2.5 million, administered athlete initial eligibility, and coordinated team travel, contest scheduling and the management of conference and post season championships. His football operations duties included the oversight of 150 game day personnel in the 60,000-seat Yale Bowl which had an average attendance of over 23,000 for Yale home games. In addition, he served as the athletics department liaison to undergraduate admissions and financial aid. During his tenure at Yale, Schlickmann was active in conference administrative roles, acting as the Ivy League coaches' liaison for men's soccer and men's and women's squash, serving on the ECAC Championships Committee and the ECAC Robbin's Division I Scholar-Athlete Award Committee. Schlickmann began his career in college athletics in 1989 as an assistant men's basketball coach at Worcester State College where he stayed for two years before moving on Springfield College. At Springfield, he worked as both an assistant men's basketball coach and a graduate assistant to the Director of Athletics. In the fall of 1992, Schlickmann was selected to the prestigious Asa S. Bushnell internship program with the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). In the fall of 1994, he was hired as Assistant Director of Athletics for Varsity Program Administration at Yale. In 1999 he was promoted to Senior Assistant Athletics Director for Varsity Program Administration and Football Operations and then to Senior Assistant Associate Director for Varsity Program Administration and football operations in 2001. At the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Schlickmann served as a Sector Coordinator where he coordinated various aspects of facility preparation and event planning for the men's and women's soccer venue. He also worked as the Deputy Commissioner of the Special Olympics World Games in the summer of 1995. Schlickmann earned his Bachelor or Arts in American Studies in 1989 from Trinity College, where he was a four year member of the Men's Basketball team. He earned his Master of Science degree in Sport Administration from Springfield College in 1995. |
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