Nicole Kaupp Named as Assistant Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Development

CHICAGO – College of Chicago Director of Athletics & Recreation Angie Torain introduced the hiring of Nicole Kaupp because the division’s Assistant Athletic Director for Pupil-Athlete Improvement. She’s going to start her new position on April 17.

“We’re blissful to have Nicole assist us give attention to the wholistic expertise of our athletes,” Torain stated. “Nicole has a ardour for main and creating programming for student-athletes, as seen along with her work with SAAC. She can be a terrific chief and mentor for our athletes.”

Inside her place as Assistant Athletic Director, Kaupp will assist present programming for UChicago student-athletes with focuses on areas comparable to psychological well being, management, profession improvement and group service. She can even preserve and construct connections with campus companions and liaisons in an effort to offer assets to the division and student-athletes.

Now in her fourth yr on campus, Kaupp joined UChicago’s Division of Athletics & Recreation in June 2019 because the assistant swimming coach and assistant aquatics director. She has additionally served as advisor for the Pupil-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

Throughout her tenure with the swimming & diving applications, the Maroons skilled unprecedented success on the nationwide degree. The 2022-23 season noticed two UChicago swimmers win NCAA particular person nationwide championships – Garrett Clasen (200-yard IM) and Alesha Kelly (200-yard Butterfly). The boys’s squad positioned third general within the crew standings on the NCAAs – their highest placement ever – and the ladies took seventh. All instructed, 30 swimmers and divers earned 75 complete All-American awards on the meet’s conclusion. Since 2019, UChicago swimming & diving has received six NCAA particular person occasion titles and 92 Maroons have collected 213 All-American awards. UChicago has additionally stood out on the convention degree with three College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) Swimmers of the 12 months, two UAA Rookies of the 12 months, three UAA Divers of the 12 months and three UAA Swim Teaching Staffs of the 12 months.

Previous to her arrival in Hyde Park, Kaupp served because the Head Males’s and Girls’s Swimming & Diving Coach and Director of Aquatics at Luther Faculty from 2016-19. Her teaching expertise additionally consists of tenures at Washington College – St. Louis and Southwestern College (Texas).

Kaupp graduated from Lewis & Clark Faculty with a bachelor’s diploma in historical past.

“I am grateful for the chance to maneuver into athletic administration and this new place for our division,” Kaupp stated. “I wish to thank Jason Weber, for hiring me 4 years in the past and being part of his workers and unimaginable program, and Angie Torain, for entrusting me with this new place. It is an incredible alternative for me to study and develop, as I transfer out of teaching and into administration. I can not wait to proceed to work alongside our wonderful athletic division workers and serve our student-athletes, specializing in their improvement and wellness, in addition to creating stronger partnerships throughout campus. It’s an thrilling time to be an athlete at UChicago and I am trying ahead to seeing the impression this place can have on our division.”