Eric Ziady, who spent the previous 23 years working in collegiate athletics administration in the Boston area, has been named the new director of athletics and recreation services at the University of Delaware.
Ziady, a native of Andover, Mass., becomes just the fifth director of athletics at Delaware since 1940. He replaces Bernard Muir, who left UD this past summer after three years at the helm to become director of athletics at Stanford University. Deputy Director of Athletics Samantha K. Huge has served as interim director of athletics since August.
He will come to a university with a solid athletic tradition and a nationally ranked women’s basketball team, but will also face a number of challenges, including bitterness in some quarters over the end of the track program and changes in season tickets for football games.
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via UD selects Eric Ziady as director of intercollegiate athletics, recreation services.
