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Missy Conboy, an 19-year veteran of the Notre Dame athletic department staff, was promoted in October of 2004 to Deputy Director of Athletics. Conboy was appointed senior associate athletics director in August of 2002 following 11 years as associate athletic director and five years as assistant athletic director. A 1982 graduate of the University, she oversees the legal affairs of the athletic department and has responsibility for the master plan for facilities, human resources, legal contracts and is the liaison to the Athletic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. Conboy is the sp0rt administrator for the volleyball, women's tennis, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's swimming and rowing programs. During her tenure at Notre Dame, she also has overseen business affairs, NCAA compliance and event management for the athletic department. She was a member of the NCAA's Legislative Review Committee, serving as chair for her final two years. Conboy also served as a four-year member of the NCAA Interpretations Committee. She was a six-year member of the NCAA Men's Tennis Committee and was instrumental in bringing both the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships and 1998 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships to the Notre Dame campus. She has served as a member of the BIG EAST Academic Honors Committee and the BIG EAST Finance Committee, and currently serves on both the BIG EAST Volleyball Committee and on the BIG EAST Executive Committee. Conboy is also the former chair of the BIG EAST Senior Women Administrators' Committee. Conboy joined the NCAA staff in 1985 as an enforcement representative. In that capacity, she spent two years investigating infraction reports and helped process cases for the NCAA's committee on infractions. She joined the Notre Dame staff in August of 1987. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., who was born April 19, 1960, Conboy was a four-year member of the Notre Dame women's basketball team from 1978-82. A forward, Conboy captained the Irish in her senior year. Conboy graduated from Notre Dame with a degree in English and received her juris doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1985. She was married in July of 1991 to William Mountford, a graduate of Notre Dame's MBA program and the U.S. Naval Academy, and the couple has three daughters - Darby, Delaney and Killian Rose Mountford. |
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