Strategy

Series Strategic Plan

The NIRSA Championship Series is dedicated to providing experiential learning through sport.

Supported by hundreds of NIRSA member volunteers, the Series offers a variety of regional and national championships for college students in an effort to contribute to a culture of health and wellbeing that positively impacts student success.

Our Principles

To ensure the integrity of the Series, staff and volunteers will:

Foster a culture that promotes positive participant experiences
Manage operational resources responsibly
Facilitate and encourage student and professional development opportunities
Assess, evaluate, and implement standards of excellence
Lead with open and honest communication

Contributors

NIRSA intentionally sought to make this planning process as inclusive as possible; the varied scope of individual lenses and experiences put forth allowed for identification of the priorities most needed by the Series.

To do this, the Task Force directly engaged with NIRSA members and participants during the data gathering and feedback stages of the planning process.

Series Strategic Plan NIRSA Championship Series Task Force (2024-2025)

Vice Chair: Stephanie Calhoun, Chair NIRSA Championship Series Committee, Georgia Southern University

2nd Vice Chair: Nikki Vance, Chair NIRSA Championship Series Committee, University of Oregon

Max Miller, Swarthmore College

Paden Alie, Purdue University

Yadira Soto, University of California – Irvine

Series 2.0 NIRSA Championship Series Task Force (2018-2019)

Co-Chair: Randall Ford, Chair NIRSA Championship Series Committee, The University of Texas at Austin

Co-Chair: Valerie McCutchan, Director of National Sport Programs, NIRSA HQ

Amanda Deml, University of Oregon

Marty Dempsey, University of Florida

Scott Flickinger, Cornell University

Dan Hazlett, Host, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ashley Lax, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Stephanie McAlpine, University of Texas at Arlington

David Peters, Florida State University

Gene Sherry, Georgia Southern University

Ben Shrunk, North Carolina State University

Jacob Tingle, Trinity University

Brooke Turner, University of Alabama

Mark Williams, University of Notre Dame

Nicole Jackson, NIRSA HQ

Need more information?

For more information contact NIRSA Director of National Sport Programs, Valerie McCutchan, or reach out to the current NIRSA Championship Committee.