2019 NACDA and Affiliates Annual Convention

Jim Senter
Vice President/Director of Athletics
UTEP


Jim Senter was named UTEP’s Director of Athletics on Nov. 22, 2017 and currently serves as Vice President and Director of Athletics. To say that Senter has been busy since arriving in the Sun City would be quite the understatement. He has hired head coaches for football (Dana Dimel), men’s basketball (Joe Golding), men's golf (Aaron Puetz), women's golf (Steve Sims), rifle (Andrea Palafox), soccer (Gibbs Keeton), softball (T.J. Hubbard) and volleyball (Ben Wallis). With a firm belief that “Every Person Makes a Difference,” Senter has engaged Miner supporters far and wide. He ushered in sweeping changes to the iconic Sun Bowl Stadium, with the addition of indoor and outdoor club seating, loge boxes, suites, the GECU Terrace, Hunt Family Sky Lounge and Paul and Alejandra Foster Tower. He also orchestrated the addition of UTEP's 17th Division I sport, beach volleyball, which began competing in the spring of 2023. On the field, highlights from the Senter era have included the football team earning its first bowl appearance in seven years, volleyball reaching postseason play for the first time ever, women’s cross country capturing its first conference championship, and women’s track and field winning the Conference USA Indoor title. In 2022, a school-record 207 UTEP student-athletes made the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll (minimum 3.0 GPA). In 2023, 72 Miners were recipients of C-USA Academic Medals (minimum 3.75 GPA), another school standard. Senter served as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, from 2014-17. During that time he hired head coaches in football, men’s basketball, baseball, soccer and volleyball.

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