Staff Directory

Erin O’Connell

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Senior Deputy Athletic Director & Chief Operating Officer
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Erin O’Connell serves as the Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Operating Officer. Her role includes overseeing event management, facilities and operations, government relations, sport operations and IT staff. O’Connell is also sport administrator for football and women's basketball.

Prior to joining the athletic department executive staff, O’Connell was the Director of Athletics at Seattle Pacific University from 2009-2015. She also served as the President and Chair of the US Rowing Board of Directors from 2014-16.

A UW graduate and student-athlete, O’Connell served as an Assistant Women’s Rowing coach at Washington for seven seasons, before moving into the athletic department at Seattle Pacific.

O’Connell was a four-year student-athlete at the University of Washington, a coxswain on the Washington rowing team from 1993-96. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s in English in 1996, and went on to earn a Master’s degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in Sports Administration in 2001 from Seattle Pacific University.

As a sports family, O’Connell and her husband Ken love to support their son Declan in all his athletic endeavors.