NCAA taps Lynda Tealer as SVP/Championships

Univ. of Florida Deputy AD Lynda Tealer has been hired by the NCAA as its new SVP/Championships. She will begin her job on May 6. In her new role, Tealer will "oversee 84 NCAA championships, including functions in event operations, media coordination and statistics, playing rules, ticket operations and marketing, merchandise and licensing, and social and digital media." Besides serving as Florida’s Deputy AD, she is also a University Athletic Association board member at Florida and the athletics department’s Deputy Title IX Coordinator. Tealer has also "served in several leadership positions" in the NCAA governance structure. She is currently Chair of the D-I Council and is a member of the D-I BOD and NCAA BOG. She has served on the council’s Competition Oversight Committee, NIL Working Group and Council Coordination Committee. She also held roles on the Division I Transformation Committee and the SEC/ESPN Content Board (ON3, 4/30).