Lindsey Babcock - Deputy AD, SWA, Deputy Title IX Coordinator - Staff Directory

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Lindsey Babcock

Title:
Deputy AD, SWA, Deputy Title IX Coordinator
Email:
Phone:
336-758-1028

Lindsey Babcock, a veteran collegiate athletics leader at both the institutional and conference level, is the Deputy Athletic Director, Chief Operating Officer
SWA, Deputy Title IX Coordinator at Wake Forest University and was hired in January, 2020.

Babcock, who has worked at three Power 5 schools and two league offices, including the Atlantic Coast Conference (2004-12), manages Wake Forest's Athletics Internal Operations, including Student-Athlete Services, Student-Athlete Development, Compliance and Human Resources.

Hired by Currie at Kansas State in 2012, Babcock spent the past seven-plus years as a member of the Wildcats athletic department executive and senior management team. As Executive Associate AD she led the K-State's compliance operation and served as campus Deputy Title IX Coordinator for athletics. She served as K-State's governance representative for the Big 12 Conference, conducting evaluations and investigations when needed and maintaining regular and consistent communication with various campus officials, such as the President, Faculty Athletics Representative and Dean of Students.In addition, Babcock was K-State's sport administrator for women's soccer, women's rowing, women's tennis and equestrian.

Over the course of her tenure in Manhattan, she spent four years (2015-19) on the NCAA Student-Athlete Experience Committee as part of the NCAA Division I governance process.

Babcock went to K-State from the ACC, where she served eight years (2004-12) as Assistant Commissioner of Compliance and Governance. In her role with the conference office, Babcock served as the primary contact for ACC institutional compliance staff members for all day-to-day issues as well as coordinating the conferences governing process.

Babcock spearheaded the conference's rules education with its membership as it related to timely or nationally significant issues while also monitoring NCAA proposed legislation and national trends for the league's member institutions. Her role and relationships with the league's Faculty Athletics Representatives were also crucial in the growth and development of the ACC's various governance groups.

Prior to joining the ACC staff, Babcock served two years as the assistant director of compliance at the University of Colorado (2003-04) where she led its compliance department. Babcock began her professional career in compliance in 2000 at West Virginia University where she served as a graduate assistant for two years while simultaneously working as an assistant women's basketball coach at Bethany College (1999-2001). After earning her master's degree at West Virginia, Babcock served two years as a compliance assistant at the Big East Conference (2001-02) before heading to the University of Colorado.

A native of Bloomsburg, Penn., Babcock was a women's basketball and softball student-athlete at Elmira College where she graduated in 1999 with her bachelor's degree in business administration. She then earned her master's degree in sport management at West Virginia University in 2001. She and her husband, Craig, have two children, Alexa and Brayden.