Judy Van Horn

Judy Van Horn, Deputy Athletics Director for Internal Operations and Risk Management/Deputy Title IX Coordinator, has been an integral part of the athletics department senior staff since January 2011. She is primary sport administrator for men’s tennis, women’s tennis, and swimming and diving. Van Horn also oversees Gamecock Sports Science departments which include sports medicine, sport performance, sports nutrition, and mental health/performance. She is involved in troubleshooting with department-wide issues as well as compliance with Title IX gender equity regulations.

Van Horn participates on various University committees such as the Emergency Management Team, Title IX Continuum of Care, Hazing Prevention and Education Committee, and the USC Digital Accessibility ADA Working Group. She previously helped lead Athletics’ response to COVID and participated on the University’s Healthcare Delivery Systems Committee. A regular presenter and panelist, Van Horn currently serves on Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Board of Directors Executive Committee and on the United States Tennis Association’s (USTA) College Athletics Advisory Group. She helped lead a joint ITA/USTA Task Force, and is a former two-year chair of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis and Women’s Tennis Committee. Van Horn’s extensive national committee service includes the Executive Committee of the NCAA Committee on Institutional Performance where she chaired the Inclusion Subcommittee and lead efforts to develop new metrics to assist NCAA Division I institutions in assessing their athletics programs and develop best practices. In 2015 she served on the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Beach Volleyball Selection Committee.

Van Horn came to South Carolina after a nine-year stint at the University of Michigan as Associate Director of Athletics/SWA. Van Horn oversaw the Office of Compliance Services and was integrally involved in addressing a major infractions cases involving the football program as well as the high profile “Fab Five” men’s basketball case. She also served on the steering committee for the President’s Ethics in Public Life Initiative. Van Horn was involved in Big Ten governance and worked on various Big Ten committees including Legislative Review, Drug Testing Review, and Compliance and Reinstatement.

Prior to her tenure at Michigan, Van Horn spent four years in the Department of Athletics at Michigan State University where she rose to Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance with oversight for NCAA compliance efforts and taught a course, “Ethics in Sport.” Van Horn began her athletics administration career at her alma mater, Central Michigan University, working there 8 years.

Van Horn served a two-year term as President of the National Association for Athletics Compliance (NAAC) during which she led a major restructuring of the organization. NAAC honored her with the 2010 Frank Kara Leadership Award, the premier award bestowed on a member of the compliance profession, and in 2005 the Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2009 she became the inaugural recipient of the Women in Sport Leadership’s Claire Van Ummersen Leadership Award.

Van Horn holds a master’s degree in sport administration and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Central Michigan University. She is working on a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy. Van Horn and her husband, Dave, have three adult children and six grandchildren.