Ian McCaw Position: Director of Athletics Alma Mater: Laurentian University

Ian McCaw was named Director of Athletics of Baylor's 19-sport, Big 12 intercollegiate athletics program Sept. 8, 2003. Under McCaw's leadership, the department has achieved extraordinary athletics, academic and administrative success.

Since 2003, Baylor has enjoyed the most competitively successful period in the history of its intercollegiate athletics program. During that time, Baylor has captured two NCAA team championships and 33 Big 12 conference championships. In McCaw's tenure at Baylor, only the University of Texas and Texas A&M have won more conference titles.

This period also includes Baylor's five highest finishes in the NACDA Directors' Cup standings highlighted by its best finish ever in 2004-05 with a ranking of 25th. A school-record 14 teams advanced to post-season competition in 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Baylor played in its first bowl game since 1994 when it advanced to the Texas Bowl in 2010. McCaw was named 2010 Waco Tribune Herald Central Texas Sportsman of the Year.

Student-athletes have thrived in the classroom as Baylor led the Big 12 in graduation success rate for three consecutive years and student-athletes recorded their highest cumulative grade point average on record during 2010-11 at 3.10.

While Baylor Athletics enjoyed extraordinary academic and athletic success, the department has made dramatic strides administratively as well.

A five-year strategic plan for intercollegiate athletics, Above and Beyond, was developed and implemented inclusive of department goals and objectives. An outgrowth of this plan was the creation and successful completion of the five-year, $95 million development campaign Victory with Integrity.

Increased athletics development activity has led to the funding and completion of the Highers Athletics Complex including the Simpson Athletics and Academic Center and Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility; the Grant Teaff and Letterwinners Plazas at Floyd Casey Stadium; the Lt. Jack Whetsel Jr. Basketball Practice Facility; the Willis Family Equestrian Center; Getterman Softball Practice Facility; and, numerous other physical improvements. Since McCaw's arrival, the athletics endowment has grown from $14 million to more than $24 million. In each of the last seven years, the Baylor Bear Foundation has posted a new record for annual funds raised highlighted by its best year ever in 2010-11 when more than $7.6 million was raised.

McCaw is Baylor's 12th athletic director and arrived from the University of Massachusetts, where he spent the previous year as director of athletics. McCaw was responsible for a 23-sport program and helped develop and implement a five-year strategic plan and secure funding for basketball locker room renovations.

McCaw previously served as director of intercollegiate athletics and campus recreation at Northeastern University from 1997-2002. During his five years at Northeastern, where he implemented a five-year strategic plan for Northeastern athletics inclusive of department goals and objectives. Northeastern graduated 65 percent of its student-athletes during McCaw's final year at the Boston institution, 14 points higher than the institutional average. Husky student-athletes also gave back to the community, as each team was required to participate in at least one community service project annually. The success of the Northeastern athletic program on McCaw's watch extended beyond the classroom, as the program captured a school-record six America East conference titles in 2001-2002, and five teams finished among the nation's top 20.

McCaw went to Northeastern from Tulane University, where he served as senior associate athletic director for development and associate athletic director for external affairs from 1992-1997, being named Tulane's co-interim director of athletics in 1996. Prior to his years at Tulane, McCaw worked in a variety of athletic administrative posts at the University of Maine from 1986 to 1992 including sports information, marketing and external affairs.

Recognized as a national leader in intercollegiate athletics, McCaw serves as chair of the NCAA Recruiting and Personnel Cabinet. He is a member of the Big 12 television and game management and officiating committees, and Division I-A Athletics Directors Executive Committee. He previously served on the National Association of Collegiate Director's of Athletics Executive Committee.

McCaw earned his master's degree in sport management from Massachusetts in 1987, after receiving a bachelor's degree in sports administration at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1985. McCaw and his wife, Heather, are members of First Baptist Church of Woodway where he serves as a deacon. They are the parents of four children: Christy, Paul, Callie and Corinne.