Ike Ukaegbu serves as WSU’s Deputy Director of Athletics after being named to the position in June of 2022. Ukaegbu leads the group of sport administrators charged with providing day-to-day oversight of WSU’s varsity sports. Ukaegbu serves as sport administrator for three of WSU’s 17 sports – football, men’s basketball and women’s tennis. He also supervises several department units, including strength and conditioning, athletic medicine, equipment operations, nutrition and WSU Athletics’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts.
Prior to WSU, Ukaegbu served as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Compliance at Texas Christian University (TCU) from 2014-2022. While there, he oversaw all areas of TCU’s comprehensive athletics compliance operations for the department’s 22 sport programs, was the sport administrator for the men’s basketball, swimming & diving and rifle programs, and was also a member of the Athletic Director’s Executive Team. Prior to TCU, Ukaegbu held compliance positions at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Boise State, Cal State Fullerton, American University and Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
In August 2020, he was selected as the TCU Chancellor’s Staff Award recipient, which recognizes a university staff member noted for exemplary service and above and beyond contributions to the welfare of the campus community.
Ukaegbu earned a B.A. in Political Science with a Minor in Pre-Law from the University of Arizona in 2007 and a Master’s of Science in Sports Administration from St. Thomas University (Miami, Fla.) in 2008.
