The 2025-26 athletic year will mark the 13th season for Lee Glenn as a member of the University of North Georgia athletic department's senior administrative staff. The 25+ year veteran of college athletics administration was promoted to Senior Associate Athletic Director in August of 2022 and added the role of Chief Communications Officer (CCO) in August of 2024. In his role as the CCO he serves as the department’s strategic communicator to internal and external stakeholders as a member of the athletics department's executive leadership staff and oversees department planning and strategic initiatives.
In addition to sport administrative oversight for seven sports (baseball, men's/women's basketball, men's/women's golf and men's/women's tennis), Glenn provides the strategic vision and leadership for the department’s external units, including championships/revenue events, brand management, marketing, communications, creative services, external facility usage, licensing/retail, in-venue and digital fan experience and digital media properties - UNGAthletics.com and the award-winning Nighthawk Sports Network.
Glenn led the launching of a new re-brand of athletics, which was a phased three-year project that included a newly designed NG monogram and coordinating institutional athletics wordmarks.
Glenn is also involved administratively at the national level, having served, or participated on several NCAA programs and committees. He’s served a four-year stint (2015-2020) on the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s cross country/track & field national committee, including being voted the cross country committee chair for the 2019-20 year. He is currently serving a term on the men's golf South/Southeast Regional Advisory Committee. Glenn also leads all NCAA hosting and championship events including the 2022 NCAA Division II Women's Golf National Championship and the 2026 NCAA Division I/II/III Rowing National Championship, both in Gainesville.
Glenn has been active across campus serving on various search and planning committees to include UNG's Sesquicentennial Planning Committee, Strategic Enrollment Management Marketing sub-committee and the Enrollment Optimization, Student Success & Marketing Expansion Task Force. He also co-chaired the Strategic Facility Usage & Prioritization committee, the Re-Opening UNG Working Group for Athletics in the summer of 2020 and served on the campus-wide Diversity Action Plan Steering Committee as the co-chair of the student recruitment and retention sub-committee.
In 2020, Glenn was selected to take part in the year-long UNG Staff Leadership Development Program, a comprehensive leadership development program for UNG staff and administrative faculty in director, department head or vice president positions.
In 2019, Glenn was awarded the UNG Boar's Head Brigade Commandant of Cadets Certificate of Achievement for outstanding service to the Corps' mission of producing leaders that can assess situations, make decisions, and lead those in their charge, regardless of the career path they choose to pursue (military or civilian).
In 2017, the department’s Operation Nighthawks of Honor was bestowed the NCAA's highest honor when it was awarded the NCAA Award of Excellence at the NCAA National Convention in Nashville, Tenn. The award recognizes positive campus and community engagement events hosted during the past year.
Prior to UNG, Glenn gained senior administration and coaching experience as the Assistant Director of Athletics at two NCAA Division III schools - Piedmont College (Demorest, Ga.) and Methodist University (Fayetteville, N.C.).
During his tenure at Piedmont, he served in various capacities including assistant athletic director, head men’s basketball coach, director of golf, head men’s & women’s golf coach, head men’s & women’s cross country coach and Director of Athletic Communications. He is the only coach in the history of the Great South Athletic Conference to earn Coach of the Year honors in two different sports – men’s basketball in 2011 and men’s cross country in 2002.
As the school's first-ever NCAA Division III men's basketball coach, his program mentored numerous academic and athletic achievements highlighted by a Josten’s Trophy finalist and D3Hoops.com All-American (Jake Baldwin) in 2008. His squads also claimed a pair of tournament titles during his tenure capturing both the 2009 New York City Tournament of Heroes title and the 2007 Roger Taylor Invitational championship.
While at Methodist, Glenn provided oversight to the school’s 21 NCAA Division III sports through media relations and event operations. In his role as assistant athletic director, he promoted three NCAA Division III Women's Golf National Championships from 2000 to 2002.
Glenn carries active administrative professional development memberships in NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) and D2 Athletic Directors Association (D2ADA).
He married the former Jocelyn Stallings in December of 2004 and the two reside in Dahlonega with their son Hagen and daughter Hadley.
Updated: July 2025
