Marianne Vydra - Oregon State University Athletics

MARIANNE VYDRA

Associate Director/Senior Women’s Administrator

Marianne Vydra joined OSU in the summer of 1992 in the position of assistant coordinator of student-athlete services. In 1998 she was promoted to the role of senior women’s administrator (SWA)/Director of Academic Services, and in 2001 she fully took on the role of SWA and is currently part of the leadership team with respect to strategic planning for the department.

Vydra supervises several sports programs, leads the student-athlete welfare units and directs the athletic department's Leadership Institute as part of the “everyday champions” Program; she also represents OSU in several important committees in the Pac-10 and NCAA.

As OSU’s SWA, she has served as Pac-10 liaison for wrestling, men’s soccer, women’s gymnastic, softball, and is currently the Pac-10 women’s soccer liaison. She was named Pac-10 Administrator of the Year in 2000 for women’s gymnastics and in 2008 was tabbed the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Administrator of the Year. Vydra has also served on the Pac-10 Executive Committee and she recently chaired the Pac-10 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She has also been a member of the Pac-10 Women’s Basketball Tournament committee and recently served on the SWAC Television Committee. She currently serves as a member on the PAC-10 Diversity Initiative Committee.

Vydra served on the NCAA certification steering committee for Oregon State and was on the gender equity and minority issues sub-committee (2000-2001). She was a member of the NCAA softball rules committee (2000-01) and has served as a NCAA Division I regional championship representative for women’s volleyball, women’s soccer and women’s basketball. She also spent six years on the NCAA Division I Softball Committee (Chair 2005-2007), and was just recently nominated for a four-year term to the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee.

At OSU, she is a member of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women (ex-officio – 1998 - present) and has been a member of the Student Conduct Committee (2001-2005). She is a former member and chair of OSU’s Academic Standing Committee.

Vydra is a member/co-chair of OSU’s Athletic Advisory Committee and in the fall of 2002, chaired the Sports Sponsorship Subcommittee. As a result of that committee’s work, a recommendation was accepted by the Advisory Board and the Athletic Director to add the sports of women’s cross country/track to OSU’s current sponsorship of 17 sports in the Fall of 2004.

Vydra also worked as a graduate assistant in Academic Services for Student-Athletes at the University of Maine in Orono before coming to Corvallis.

Vydra grew up in Springfield, Mo. and has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Missouri State and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Maine. Marianne will be leading a 100-mile backpacking expedition this summer on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada range in California and is currently building a cabin on Bull Shoals lake near Branson, Missouri with her sisters.