Waterfield Joins Miami Athletics Department
May 13, 2011
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst announced the hiring of Steve Waterfield to the position of Senior Associate Athletic Director for Strategic Planning at the University of Miami.
“I am extremely pleased that Steve will be joining our senior management team at the U,” said Eichorst. “I have had the great pleasure of working with him the past five years and he is one of the most talented and well-respected young administrators in college athletics.”
Waterfield will join the senior management team within the athletics department and will have the following primary responsibilities:
– Sport oversight of men’s and women’s basketball
– Strategic operations
– Facilities and maintenance
– Departmental policies and procedures
– Capital projects and construction
– Sports medicine and drug testing
“I am excited to join the University of Miami Department of Athletics and appreciate this opportunity,” said Waterfield. “I look forward to continuing to work with Shawn Eichorst and to starting to work with athletic department and university staff members to achieve continued athletic and academic excellence at the U.”
Waterfield joins UM after seven years at the University of Wisconsin (UW), where he served under Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez and with Eichorst on senior staff for three years. Before departing UW, Waterfield was an associate athletics director for student services and oversaw compliance, academic services, sports medicine, drug testing, student-athlete discipline, departmental policies, coordinated department head meetings, direct sport oversight of men’s and women’s soccer and the men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs. Waterfield came to UW after spending five years as an assistant director of compliance at Ohio State University.
In June 2004, Waterfield earned an MBA from Ohio State, where he also received a master’s degree in sports management (1999) and jurist doctor (1997), all of which followed his B.A. in political science from Kenyon College (1994).
Waterfield was admitted to the Ohio bar and U.S. Federal District Court in 1997 and worked for a year as an assistant attorney general in the Ohio Attorney General’s office before accepting a graduate administrative associateship at Ohio State.
A native of Sandusky, Ohio, Waterfield and his wife, Jaime, have two sons, Davis and Austin.
