May 15, 2014
Tom Calder will be honored on June 11 at the NACDA Convention in Orlando. |
CLEVELAND, OH - Johns Hopkins University Director of Athletics Tom Calder has been selected as one of four NCAA Division III winners of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award for 2013-14.
The NACDA Athletic Director of the Year Award spans seven divisions (NCAA FBS, FCS; Division I-AAA, II, III, NAIA/Other Four-Year Institutions and Junior College/Community Colleges) with four winners in each division (selected regionally). Winners will receive their awards during the James J. Corbett Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, June 11 at NACDA's 49th Annual Convention at the World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Calder is in his 26th year at Johns Hopkins, including his 19th year as Director of Athletics, and leads an athletics program that sponsors 24 varsity sports and is one of the most successful in the nation.
Currently, Johns Hopkins ranks third in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings with the program's first top five finish well within reach. Six different spring teams qualified for NCAA Championship competition this year, including the men's lacrosse, men's tennis and women's tennis teams, which have all advanced to the quarterfinal round. In addition, a school-record number of athletes from the men's & women's track teams have qualified for next week's NCAA championships.
Highlighting the fall and winter seasons at the national level for Johns Hopkins were a second consecutive NCAA championship in women's cross country, a third place finish at the NCAA Championships for the women's swimming team, a fourth-place showing for the men's swimming team and a national quarterfinal appearance for women's soccer. In all, 17 of Johns Hopkins' 24 teams will have competed in NCAA Championship play this year.
In addition to the success at the national level, Johns Hopkins won a school-record 14 conference championships this year, including five each in the fall and winter and four in the spring. In the last four years, Hopkins has claimed 45 conference titles with at least 10 in each of those four years. Johns Hopkins had never won 10 in any year prior to the current four-year run.
The success of Johns Hopkins teams in competition is matched only by the success Blue Jay student-athletes achieve in the classroom. This year alone, Johns Hopkins has produced a National Football Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, two NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients and four CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (with still the spring selections to be announced). Since Calder took over as the Director of Athletics in 1995, Johns Hopkins has produced 86 Academic All-Americans and 20 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients.
While it's easy to focus on Johns Hopkins' remarkable record of success during Calder's tenure as Director of Athletics, he has also worked tirelessly to provide each team with the facilities necessary to compete at the highest level.
The completion of the Cordish Lacrosse Center, a state-of-the-art building that houses the Johns Hopkins men's and women's lacrosse teams, is the latest in a long line of facility developments that have been completed during his tenure. The $10 million Cordish Lacrosse Center includes locker rooms, coaches offices, team meeting rooms, hospitality space, an athletic training room, a study room and more. Completed in August, 2012, the facility is the first of its kind built for men's and women's lacrosse.
Other recent facility enhancements include the opening of the Wall-O'Mahoney Student Athlete Lounge (2012), the installation of a $1 million video board at Homewood Field (2011), the construction of a full competition track and field complex (2009), the renovation of the main lobby of the Newton White Athletic Center to include display cases and recognition areas for each of Johns Hopkins' 24 athletic teams (2009-10) and the opening of the O'Connor Recreation Center (2002).
In addition, the University is close to completing a $6 million renovation on the baseball and tennis facilities on the Homewood Campus.
Johns Hopkins By the Numbers Under Tom Calder (1995 -)
4 - NCAA Team Championships
20 - NCAA Postgraduate Scholars
86 - CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
120 - Conference Championships
Winners of the 2013-14 Under Armour AD of the Year Awards are:
Football Bowl Subdivision
Scott Barnes, Utah State
Thomas Boeh, Fresno State
Dan Guerrero, UCLA
Jim Weaver, Virginia Tech
Football Championship Subdivision
Rob Bernardi, Nicholls State
Troy Dannen, Northern Iowa
Sandy Hatfield Clubb, Drake
Hunter Yurachek, Coastal Carolina
Division I-AAA
Chris May, St. Louis
Jack McDonald, Quinnipiac
Kim Record, UNC Greensboro
Eric Sexton, Wichita State
Division II
Kevin Buisman, Minnesota State Mankato
Jim Johnson Pittsburg State
Joan McDermott, Metro State
David Scott, West Florida
Division III
Thomas Calder, Johns Hopkins
Tim Downes, Emory
Tracey Ranieri, SUNY Oneonta
Don Tencher, Rhode Island College
NAIA
Jack Hank, Our Lady of the Lake
Troy Plummer, Grand View
Keith Spataro, Menlo
Shay Wyatt, Westminster
Junior/Community Colleges
Richard Holler, Westmoreland County CC
John Jackson, Dean College
Greg Silcox, Paradise Valley CC
Jack Sullivan, County College of Morris
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