Jamie Pollard will provide an update on current events in Cyclone athletics including a recap of the football team’s trip to Ireland, and he will provide an update on the University’s CyTown project.
Pollard, the longest-tenured athletic director in Iowa State history and the third longest in the country, is beginning his 21st year leading the Cyclones’ 18-sport intercollegiate athletics program. His vision for ISU student-athletes’ academic and athletic success has had a major impact within the campus community, throughout the Big 12 Conference, and across the collegiate industry.
He is a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and is a 1987 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he lettered in cross country and track & field. He was the school’s first cross country All-American as a senior in 1986, then capped his collegiate career by winning the 1987 NCAA Division III Outdoor 5,000-meter title.
Jamie and his wife, Ellen, have four children: Thomas, Annie, Maggie, and James.