NC A&T names Katreshia Louis-Verrett athletics director

NORTH CAROLINA A&T ATHLETICS

Katreshia Louis-Verrett returns to North Carolina A&T as the Aggies' new athletics director. She was associate AD from 2011-17.

North Carolina A&T is turning to a familiar face as athletics director.

Katreshia Louis-Verrett, Alabama-Birmingham’s deputy athletics director, is returning to Greensboro as the Aggies’ top athletics administrator. She starts on Sept. 1. 

Louis-Verrett, who succeeds Earl Hilton, was A&T’s associate athletics director from 2011-17, where she was responsible for compliance and human resources. 

“I am humbled, honored and excited to serve North Carolina A&T State during this transformative period for college athletics,” Louis-Verrett said in a statement. “I look forward to supporting and expanding the reach of this university’s historic mission of academic excellence and supporting the performance of our student-athletes, coaches and staff, as well as taking advantage of new opportunities for growth and success.”

Over 20 years as an administrator, Louis-Verrett worked five years as assistant athletics director at Georgia Tech as well as NCAA committees that helped shape oversight of collegiate athletics nationally.

“At North Carolina A&T, our commitment to student success is our No. 1 priority, and that certainly includes the success of our student athletes,” Chancellor James R. Martin II said. “Katreshia is equally passionate about that commitment, as well as ensuring that our athletics teams and student athletes have the resources, guidance and support to succeed in competition. She is fiercely competitive herself and will expect excellence from our coaches, staff and student athletes.”

Louis-Verrett takes over an Aggies program in transition. Football and men’s basketball are struggling to make an impact after three years in the Coastal Athletic Conference. The track and field programs are coming off a strong season in which the men had the best finish ever for a Division I historically Black college at the NCAA championships.

The college sports landscape is also shifting with Division I schools now sharing athletics-generated revenue directly with student athletes, and the cap per school is rising to $21.3 million. Louis-Verrett’s experience in Title IX and name, image and likeness regulation will also be used at A&T.

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