College of Utah athletic director Mark Harlan poses for a portrait exterior of the Huntsman Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis, on Thursday, Might 30, 2019. On Monday, March 27, 2023, Harlan was named the Athletic Director of the Yr. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
College of Utah Athletic Director Mark Harlan and President Taylor Randall unveil a present to the household of late Utes participant Wat Misaka throughout a ceremony on the Huntsman Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information
College of Utah athletic director Mark Harlan was chosen 2022-23 Soccer Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Cushman & Wakefield Athletics Director of the Yr.
The award was introduced Monday by the Nationwide Affiliation of Collegiate Administrators of Athletics.
“It’s extraordinarily gratifying and humbling to see the large work and the achievements of our student-athletes, coaches and workers be acknowledged on this manner,” Harlan stated in an announcement. “The College of Utah is a particular place, and I’m grateful to guide our group throughout a time of such extraordinary achievement.
“The dedication and assist of President Taylor Randall, the college group, Salt Lake Metropolis, the state of Utah and our nice followers make it really a good time to be a Ute! I'm honored to be a part of the Utah Household.”
Utah President Taylor Randall congratulated Harlan on receiving the 2022-23 award.
“Mark’s regular steering has anchored a division that has endured nice tragedy and emerged stronger and extra completed each on and off the sector,” Randall stated. “I'm very completely satisfied for Mark. His management fashion, and imaginative and prescient to construct a tradition that retains the very best pursuits of our student-athletes entrance and heart has earned him this award.”
In accordance with the college, underneath Harlan’s management of the athletic division, Utah has “loved record-breaking success in fundraising and continues to see development in amenities and in providers that elevate the student-athlete expertise, steadily positioning Utah Athletics as a nationwide energy in intercollegiate athletics. His deal with student-athlete psychological well being providers has resulted in additional than doubling the variety of full-time workers on this necessary space.”
Amongst Utah’s accomplishments in 2021-22, per the College of Utah:
- Essentially the most groups certified for NCAA championships competitors or a bowl sport (8) in class historical past.
- The Utes had 4 groups win convention championships (together with two Pac-12), essentially the most in a single faculty 12 months for Utah since becoming a member of the Pac-12.
- The Utah soccer group gained its second consecutive Pac-12 championship and performed within the Rose Bowl for the second 12 months in a row. Utah has performed in 4 of the final 5 Pac-12 soccer championship video games.
- One other nationwide championship for the Utah ski group, its third in a row underneath head coach Fredrik Landstedt, Harlan’s first head coach rent at Utah in 2018.
- Utah gymnastics completed third on the 2022 NCAA championship meet — its second consecutive top-three end — and achieved its second consecutive Pac-12 championship.
- Utah earned its highest rating by way of the ultimate 2022 Winter standings within the Learfield Director’s Cup since 1997-98, rating twenty fifth in Division I, second amongst all Pac-12 faculties behind Stanford. The ultimate 2021-22 standings additionally noticed Utah garner its highest end since 1997-98, inserting forty fourth.
Academically, Utah’s student-athletes achieved excessive marks in NCAA APR and GSR stories underneath Harlan’s management.
- The Utes’ 93% Commencement Success Fee in the latest NCAA GSR report (November 2022) tied for the fourth-highest amongst all Energy 5 public establishments, and tied for second within the Pac-12, whereas marking the fifth 12 months in a row with a rating of 93% or greater.
- The division’s 5 highest common semester GPAs have come within the final six semesters, because the Utes’ student-athletes recorded a 3.329 in spring 2022 (fourth-highest all-time) and three.328 in fall 2022 (fifth-highest all-time).
- Utah additionally excelled in the latest NCAA Educational Progress Fee (APR) report, with 4 groups incomes good multi-year marks of 1,000, and 9 groups incomes good 1,000 single-year scores for the 2020-21 report launched in June 2022.
Utah has skilled two years of sold-out capability within the Ken Garff Purple Zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium, an growth of Rice-Eccles Stadium that opened in 2021 and reworked the game-day expertise at Utah soccer video games. And the growth and improve of the Dumke Gymnastics facility broke floor in March 2022 and is scheduled to be accomplished in April 2023, and the on-campus golf coaching facility, the David S. Layton Golf Academy, opened in January 2021, backed up by fundraising of $2.9 million.
College of Utah Athletic Director Mark Harlan and President Taylor Randall unveil a present to the household of late Utes participant Wat Misaka throughout a ceremony on the Huntsman Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.
Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information