Tim Wise has been named the University of Notre Dame’s Senior Associate Athletics Director, Facilities, Events and Revenue. Wise joins the Irish after serving as the Senior Associate Athletics Director, Facilities and Event Operations at the University of Miami since 2012.
“We are excited to have Tim Wise join the Notre Dame Family,” said Executive Deputy Athletic Director Mario Morris. “We will benefit greatly from Tim’s vast experience and leadership in capital project planning, and facility and event management. Tim is well known as a national leader in facility and event management having served in several leadership positions, including serving as the President of the Collegiate Event and Facility Management Association (CEFMA).”
Wise oversaw numerous areas within the department at Miami: facilities and maintenance services, capital projects/construction, facilities master planning, event management and guest services, camps/clinics, risk management and information technology.
He also served as the liaison to the Watsco Center and Hard Rock Stadium, as well as the sport administrator for Miami’s rowing team. In July 2020, he was named to the ACC Rowing Committee and was appointed Vice Chair.
Wise completed approximately $78 million in projects during his time at Miami. Notably, the Schwartz Center for Athletic Excellence, the Carol Soffer Indoor Practice Facility, and the Jim and Kim Klotz Player Development Center.
“I am excited to join the University of Notre Dame and the Notre Dame Athletics family,” Wise said. “Notre Dame has a rich history and tradition, an excellent academic institution and is internationally recognized. I am grateful to Jack Swarbrick and Mario Morris for this special opportunity to serve a great athletics program.”
Wise, who has more than 25 years of experience in college athletics as an event manager, facilities director and administrator, was hired by the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department as assistant athletic director for events and facilities in August 2008. In January 2012, he was named interim associate athletic director and elevated to the senior management team with additional oversight of the University Ridge Golf Course and $125 million in capital projects.
Wise also had supervisory oversight of the UW Athletics event management, facilities, food and beverage and guest services units and oversaw an annual budget of approximately $15 million. He also served in a lead role in administrative coordination of UW Athletics concerts, summer camps and event parking.
Wise served as the director of facility maintenance at the University of Connecticut from August 2005 to August 2008. He oversaw daily operations of athletic facilities, projects and event operations as the assistant athletics director for facilities and operations at Eastern Michigan University from November 2003 to June 2005.
Wise was hired as the athletics event manager at the University of Denver in August 2000 and promoted to the director of athletics events in August 2001 and served in that role until October 2003. Prior to his time at Denver, Wise was the event services manager at The Ohio State University’s Schottenstein
Wise was an event operations manager intern at Michigan State University from August 1998 to May 1999. His first position upon graduation from college was as a conference coordinator at the University of South Carolina from December 1996 to January 1998.
Wise has extensive experience working at NCAA and conference championship events. At Wisconsin, he served on the departments Diversity Integration Group and was the representative to the City of Madison and UW Campus Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee. In the past, he served on Connecticut’s Environmental Compliance Team as well as the school’s Environmental Policy Advisory Council. He also served on the NCAA Woman of the Year Selection Committee and the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee, three years as the Vice Chair. Wise earned the University of Denver Center for Multicultural Excellence Outstanding Staff Award in 2002-03.
Wise is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc. and served as the President of the local Mu Eta Lambda alumni chapter. He is a member of the Collegiate Event and Facility Management Association and was named to the Board of Directors in September 2011 and the 3rd Vice President in June 2012, 2nd Vice President in June 2013, 1st Vice President in June 2014 and served as The President for 2015-16. Wise also has membership in the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
In February 2017, Wise was named to the MOAA Board of Directors, and in 2019, he was named to the organization’s Executive Committee. In June 2021, Wise was appointed 2nd Vice President. He has participated in the NCAA Leadership Institute Continuing Education Series, the NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males, the NACDA Mentoring Institute, the NCAA Diversity Education Training and the NCAA Achieving Communications Success Workshop. In 2009-10, Wise completed and graduated from the highly prestigious collegiate athletics executive leadership training program at the Sports Management Institute.
Wise is a 1996 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and earned a masters’ degree in human performance and sport studies from the University of Tennessee in 1998.