WSU promotes Grant to athletic director
Thursday, June 05, 2008
FAIRBORN — "Two words," Dr. Dan Abrahamowicz said. "Bob Grant."
That's what the Wright State vice president of student affairs said this afternoon, June 5, as he confirmed that current WSU associate AD Bob Grant will be the new athletic director at the school, replacing retiring Mike Cusack.
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Bob Grant"He has a clear vision for where he wants to take the athletic program," Abrahamowicz said. "He also competed on a national level with some of the best candidates (there were about 50 applicants). He did a truly outstanding job in the search process. He hit a home run."
A press conference will be held Friday morning at the school to introduce Grant, an introduction he probably will not need. At WSU, Grant is well known.
Grant was the only in-house product among the final four candidates, which included assistant athletic directors Kevin McNamee of George Mason and Stephen Downing of Texas Tech and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi athletics director Brian Teter, who withdrew from consideration Tuesday night.
Not only was Grant the only in-house finalist, he is 100 percent local, having graduated from West Carrollton High School. He also has two degrees from Wright State, his undergrad in business administration in 1988 and an MBA in marketing in 2000.
At 43, he is also the youngest among the four finalists.
He worked part-time in the athletic department and became a senior development officer from 1992-95, assistant athletic director from 1996-2002 and has been an associate athletic director since 2003.
Grant will be only the third athletic director at Wright State. Don Mohr was the first. When he retired, Cusack took over 26 years ago.
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