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Campus Review
January 31, 2014
McAloose Resigns as Athletic Director
by Gid Rowell
Director of Athletics Carl McAloose has
announced that he will be stepping down
from his position at Clayton State
University after accepting the Director of
Collegiate Athletics position at Edison
State College in Fort Myers, Fla.
McAloose was named Clayton State’s
second athletic director in the spring of
2012 overseeing the institution’s 12-sport
NCAADivision II intercollegiate athletics
program that competes in the Peach Belt
Conference. He took over after long-time
athletic director Mason Barfield retired in
the fall of 2011.
“I want to thank Dr. (Tim) Hynes, the
coaching staff, administrators, and stu-
dent-athletes at Clayton State for their
support during my time at Clayton State,”
said McAloose. “I am only leaving
Clayton State because of having an oppor-
tunity to once again start an athletics pro-
gram from its inception and the chance to
get back home with family and friends.
With the personnel in place, Clayton State
is in a very good position to reach our goal
of being one of the top universities in
NCAA II.”
Edison State College is located in Fort
Myers, FL, and a member of the Florida
College System. The college is planning
to bring back intercollegiate athletics to
its campus in the fall of 2015 and
McAloose will lead that effort.
“In a very brief period of time, Carl was
able to contribute significantly to the pres-
ent and future of Laker athletics. He has
reinforced throughout the athletic pro-
gram its role in the success of our entire
institution,” said Clayton State President
Hynes. “He has been a consistent advo-
cate for supporting academic performance
for our student athletes. He has built on
traditions of community based service for
participants of the program. And he has
done that while creating the conditions for
student and athletic success for all of our
teams. And he has been a key contributor
to our institutional leadership team, find-
ing ways for dreams to be made real.”
McAloose will begin at Edison State in
mid-February and his last day at Clayton
State will be
February 16th.
University offi-
cials say an
interim Director
of Athletics will
be named short-
ly.
Among
the
a c c o m p l i s h -
ments in his two
years at Clayton State, McAloose directed
the renovating of the University’s
Athletics Center gymnasium and the later
naming of Mason Barfield Court. He also
initiated a new corporate partners pro-
gram within the Department of Athletics
and helped lead the establishment of the
school’s first Hall of Fame.
Clayton State was also successful on the
playing field during in his two years, as
the Lakers captured five Peach Belt
Conference Championships and one
NCAA Division II Southeast Regional
Championship. Clayton State finished
third last year in the 14-school Peach Belt
Conference Commissioner’s Cup stand-
ings.
Prior to joining Clayton State, McAloose
last served as an athletic director at
Florida Gulf Coast University, which is
also in Fort Myers from 2000 to 2008. He
built the FGCU program from scratch in
2000, overseeing a program with 14
sports.
A few of his more notable achievements
at FGCU include: leading the program’s
move to NCAA Division I and the A-Sun
Conference in 2007, the fastest in NCAA
history; overseeing the construction of the
University’s $30 million athletic complex,
which included multiple facilities; and
helping secure a $5 million gift, the
largest cash contribution in the school’s
10-year history, for the construction of the
school’s $20 million Alico Arena. The
teams won nearly 80 percent of their con-
tests and student-athletes volunteered
over 7,500 hours of community service
each year. In 2008, McAloose was named
the FGCU Staff Member of the Year by
the FGCU student body.
Along with his past experience as an ath-
letic director, McAloose has served in
athletic conference administration. He
served as the commissioner of the NCAA
Division II Great Lakes Valley
Conference from 1996 to 2000 after serv-
ing as the associate commissioner in the
Big South Conference from 1992 to
1996. He also served in associate athletic
director roles at both Coast Carolina
University and at West Chester
University.
He
currently
is
President/CEO of Athletics Staffing and
Consultants where he assists University
athletic departments throughout the
United States.
He earned a master’s degree in education
from Frostburg State University in 1988
and holds a bachelor’s degree in physical
education from McDaniel College.
McAloose has three children Krista, 21;
Savannah, 18; and Hunter, 16. His oldest
daughter Krista attends the Air Force
Academy in Colorado Springs, while
Savannah and Hunter attend Fort Myers
High School.
McAloose