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Andrea Seger named to 2022 MAC Hall of Fame Class
March 11, 2022 | General
Former administrator inducted into league’s hall of fame
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former Ball State administrator Andrea Seger has been selected into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2022, the league office announced Friday.
Seger served as the director of women's athletics at Ball State from 1983-95 under the school's split department system. In January 1995, after a 12-year tenure heading the women's athletics program, the university combined its men's and women's programs and selected Seger as the director of athletics for its newly combined program.
Her appointment made her one of only four women in the country to oversee a combined NCAA Division I-A athletics department and the first female to oversee all sports in Ball State history.
During Seger's tenure, the women's athletics programs captured 45 Mid-American Conference championships, including regular season, division and tournament titles. The men's programs added 27 championships during her seven-year term as director of athletics. In total, Seger guided athletics programs to 72 conference crowns.
While serving as the director of athletics, Ball State boasted graduation rates in the top 10 in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and was named a FBS Champs Program of Excellence.
Prior to being named the school's women's athletics director in 1983, Seger spent eight years as an assistant professor and assistant athletics trainer at BSU.
Seger has a bachelor's degree from Cortland State University and a master's degree from Indiana State University. She served for eight years on the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification and four years on the NCAA Division I Management Council. She retired from Ball State in 2002.
She was inducted into the Ball State Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Cortland State Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Award from the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) in 2010 after serving as the interim executive director.
During the fall of 2004, Seger joined Alden and Associates, an athletics search and consulting firm, as a senior associate counsel focusing on feasibility studies, Title IX reviews, compliance reviews and strategic planning.
Seger is one of 12 inductees in the 2022 class, joining Kay Piper (Akron), Dorothy Luedtke (Bowling Green), Nan Harvey (Buffalo), Linda (Pagett) Young (Central Michigan), Lucy Parker (Eastern Michigan), Laing Kennedy (Kent State), Karen Womack (Miami), Cary Groth (Northern Illinois), Peggy Pruitt (Ohio), Cheryl Sprangel (Toledo) and Kathy Beauregard (Western Michigan).
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The MAC Hall of Fame was approved by the MAC Council of Presidents in 1987. The charter class was inducted in 1988 and subsequent classes were added in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994. After six induction classes, the MAC Hall of Fame maintained 52 members until it was reinstated in May of 2012. This year's class brings the number of MAC Hall of Fame inductees to 114 individuals from 16 classes.
Seger served as the director of women's athletics at Ball State from 1983-95 under the school's split department system. In January 1995, after a 12-year tenure heading the women's athletics program, the university combined its men's and women's programs and selected Seger as the director of athletics for its newly combined program.
Her appointment made her one of only four women in the country to oversee a combined NCAA Division I-A athletics department and the first female to oversee all sports in Ball State history.
During Seger's tenure, the women's athletics programs captured 45 Mid-American Conference championships, including regular season, division and tournament titles. The men's programs added 27 championships during her seven-year term as director of athletics. In total, Seger guided athletics programs to 72 conference crowns.
While serving as the director of athletics, Ball State boasted graduation rates in the top 10 in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and was named a FBS Champs Program of Excellence.
Prior to being named the school's women's athletics director in 1983, Seger spent eight years as an assistant professor and assistant athletics trainer at BSU.
Seger has a bachelor's degree from Cortland State University and a master's degree from Indiana State University. She served for eight years on the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification and four years on the NCAA Division I Management Council. She retired from Ball State in 2002.
She was inducted into the Ball State Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Cortland State Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Award from the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) in 2010 after serving as the interim executive director.
During the fall of 2004, Seger joined Alden and Associates, an athletics search and consulting firm, as a senior associate counsel focusing on feasibility studies, Title IX reviews, compliance reviews and strategic planning.
Seger is one of 12 inductees in the 2022 class, joining Kay Piper (Akron), Dorothy Luedtke (Bowling Green), Nan Harvey (Buffalo), Linda (Pagett) Young (Central Michigan), Lucy Parker (Eastern Michigan), Laing Kennedy (Kent State), Karen Womack (Miami), Cary Groth (Northern Illinois), Peggy Pruitt (Ohio), Cheryl Sprangel (Toledo) and Kathy Beauregard (Western Michigan).
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The MAC Hall of Fame was approved by the MAC Council of Presidents in 1987. The charter class was inducted in 1988 and subsequent classes were added in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994. After six induction classes, the MAC Hall of Fame maintained 52 members until it was reinstated in May of 2012. This year's class brings the number of MAC Hall of Fame inductees to 114 individuals from 16 classes.
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