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Resa Lovelace

Resa Lovelace

  • Title
    Associate AD - Student-Athlete Development and Inclusive Excellence
  • Email
    rlove9@umd.edu
  • Phone
    301-405-8212
Resa Lovelace was promoted to Associate Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Development and Inclusive Excellence in July 2023. Overall, she enters her seventh school year working with the Gossett Center in 2024-25. 

Lovelace came home to Maryland in September 2018, where she led the student-athlete development program. Lovelace now also leads and guides the department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives in addition to managing the Maryland Made program, which includes the Gossett Fellows program, the Kubasik First Impact program, the InTERPship Academy, World Wide Terps and Pre-Health Terps. 

Prior to Maryland, she worked at the University of Oregon at the Director of Student-Athlete Development, after being promoted from Student-Athlete Development Coordinator. Her responsibilities included: developing programs for career and leadership development of student-athletes, creating programs of diversity and inclusion for the department and oversees the Student-Athlete Advisory Council. Also, serves as the Director of O Heroes, a non-profit organization for community engagement programs with the student-athletes. She was instrumental in the Diversity & Inclusion campaign, BEOREGON, which started conversations with student-athletes, coaches and administrators about “Being your authentic self.” Within the campus, Lovelace is the Chairperson of the Black Strategies Group, which facilitates retention of black faculty, staff and students at the University.

An advocate for diversity & inclusion, she has been named Founders Club Chair for LGBTSportSafe organization. She has also been a speaker at the NCAA Inclusion Forum and University of Oregon Law School, to discuss LGBTQ issues in sport. Most recently, she was invited to participate in the NCAA Common Ground discussions with religious institutions regarding LGBTQ topics.

Prior to Oregon, Lovelace was the Coordinator of Student-Athlete Affairs at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. In her four-year stint at George Mason, Lovelace developed career and personal growth programs, advised the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, organized NCAA required drug & alcohol, gambling and other educational programs, and represented Intercollegiate Athletics on campus.

Lovelace has been extended herself to many initiatives, projects and programs through the NCAA. In 2016 she completed the NCAA Leadership Institute, in 2012 she was a facilitator of the NCAA Career in Sports Forum. For one year during 2014-15 she was a member of the NCAA Life Skills Yearly Initiatives Action Team, where she helped assist with the growing student-athlete development demands at the institution, conference and campus levels.

She has been an active member of the Women Leaders in College Sports for the past five years. As an active member of Women Leaders, she is the Co-Chair of the Academics & Student-Athlete Development circle & on the Mentor Program Committee, and had previously served for two years on the Education & Professional Development Committee.

A native of College Park, Md, Lovelace holds a Master’s in Education in Sports Management from Old Dominion University and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Sports Management from Hampton University. She was a NCAA Collegiate bowler for Hampton University.

Updated July 6, 2023