Dr. Jody BISCOE
#PrideAndPurpose
Faculty Athletics Representative 13TH YEAR AT NSU Joseph (Jody) Biscoe has served as Northwestern State University’s Faculty Athletic Representative (FAR) since 2006, which includes the role as chairperson for the NSU Athletic Council. Currently, Jody serves as the chairperson for the Southland Conference Faculty Athlete Representatives and is a member of both the Compliance and Awards Committees. Additionally, Jody holds a tenured faculty position in the Psychology Department. Jody also is the Coordinator for the undergraduate Addiction Studies program and the Director for the Louisiana Addiction Technology Transfer Center. The Biscoes have lived in Natchitoches since 2002. Jody’s wife, Roni, is an avid runner and their daughter Roxy is a graduate of Northwestern’s Nursing program (BSN). You might often see Jody and Roni spending time with 4-year-old Jaxson, who already is training to be a future Demon multi-sport athlete whose favorite character is “Vic.”
Chance CREPPEL
Assistant Director of Facilities/Event Management 1ST YEAR AT NSU Chance Creppel joined his alma mater's athletic department as the assistant director of facilities and event management in October. A 2017 magna cum laude Northwestern State graduate in business administration, Creppel spent a year as in inside sales consultant with the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans. During his time with the two properties, Creppel developed more than $100,000 in new business. While a student at Northwestern State, Creppel spent three years as an athletic facilities coordinator, assisting with setup and management of all NSU athletic events as well as special events on campus. He worked closely with the Southland Conference staff when NSU hosted the 2014 conference cross country and volleyball championships and the 2015 softball tournament. Creppel spent time as an intern with the Amateur Athletic Union in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and as a manager's assistant with SMG, which operates the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and Smoothie King Center in his hometown of New Orleans.
Dustin EUBANKS
Associate AD/NCAA Compliance Director 22ND YEAR AT NSU Dustin Eubanks is in his 22nd year in the NSU athletic department and his 18th year at the helm of NSU’s compliance department, keeping all athletics personnel current and in accordance with NCAA and Southland Conference guidelines. Eubanks was inducted into the N-Club Hall of Fame in October 2015, becoming just the fourth non-competitor to do so. A 1996 education graduate of Northwestern, the 44-year-old avid fan of all teams that hail from Pittsburgh seized an opportunity to serve as a graduate assistant in the sports information department at Northwestern while beginning the pursuit of his master’s degree in health and physical education (concentration in sports administration), which he obtained in May of 2003, and was impressive enough to earn a promotion to full-time status in November 1998. Eubanks is married to the former Dawn Hornsby of Branch and the couple has two daughters, Taylor (12) and Emilie (23), the latter being a recent summa cum laude graduate of NSU. The sisters share the same birthdate. Dustin and Dawn, who is the associate bursar at NSU, celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary this summer.
Roxanne FREEMAN Athletic Business Manager
36TH YEAR AT NSU Roxanne Freeman began working at NSU in 1983 as an accounting clerk in business affairs. She transferred to the athletics department as football/baseball/track secretary and served under Sam Goodwin, Leon Johnson and several baseball coaches for eight seasons before graduating with a B.S. in accounting in May 1995. Freeman then became the compliance coordinator and academic advisor during a three-year span before leaving in 1998. She returned to NSU in the Fall of 2000 in her current position as Business Manager where she now serves as liaison between the athletic department and business affairs. She has one son, Aaron Pizani, who is also a NSU alum.
Mike DOTY
Mike JACKLICH
Director of Athletic Facilities/Event Management
Assistant AD for Ticketing and Special Events
2ND YEAR AT NSU
5TH YEAR AT NSU
Mike Doty begins his second year as Northwestern State’s director of athletic facilities and event management. In his position, Doty oversees scheduling and maintenance for all of NSU’s athletic facilities. He also is the event manager for football and softball and is the co-event manager for both men’s and women’s basketball. Prior to arriving in Natchitoches in July 2017, Doty spent the previous two years as the athletic facilities coordinator at Missouri Southern State in Joplin, Missouri. While there, Doty managed all the university’s athletic facilities, coordinated logistics of all events held in those facilities, maintained the athletic facilities and grounds and wrote all event and facility contracts. He also was the university’s primary event manager for the 2015 DII XC Championship, 2017 MIAA Indoor Track Championship, and 2017 MIAA Baseball Tournament. A 2010 political science and international studies graduate of the University of Nebraska, Doty spent four years as an admissions counselor at Nebraska. After two years, he was promoted to senior admissions counselor, a position he held for two years before attending graduate school at Ohio University. While earning his master’s of sports administration from Ohio in 2015, Doty was an operations graduate assistant in Ohio’s Event Services department. He also served as the manager of game day operations and promotions for the Southern Ohio Copperheads, a member of the Great Lakes Summer League. While with the Copperheads, Doty also worked with the other 11 teams to craft the schedule for the summer wooden-bat league. During his time as a student at Ohio, he worked on a study of the Football Bowl Association, which earned a Best Project Award. He also worked with the Pro Football Hall of Fame and with the New York Giants, dealing with football analytics.
After making an immediate impact on NSU’s ticket revenue upon his arrival in October 2014, Mike Jacklich was promoted to assistant athletic director for ticketing and special events in March 2017. In addition to increasing basketball ticketing revenue by more than 60 percent from the 201314 season, Jacklich spearheaded the re-seating project at Turpin Stadium, which saw the installation of 2,360 uniformly purple chairback seats that debuted during the 2016 season. Currently, he is overseeing the conversion of NSU’s primary ticketing system for the 2018-19 athletic year. Jacklich came to Natchitoches from suburban Chicago, where he was the director of ticketing for the Schaumburg Boomers of independent baseball’s Frontier League. While with the Boomers, Jacklich worked closely with the Boomers general manager to shape and enhance all aspects of fan services. He was responsible for creating and executing all ticketing and sales reports, while training a full-time sales staff and overseeing a group of 15 interns. Jacklich also wore a variety of hats outside of the Boomers ticket office, including serving as a tour guide at Boomers Stadium and filling in as “Coop,” the Boomers’ mascot. Jacklich earned his bachelor of arts degree in mass communication from the University of Tulsa in 2001. Following graduation, he returned to Chicago where he began a six-year run as the assistant audience services manager for the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company. While with Steppenwolf, Jacklich helped implement Tessitura, an innovative ticketing software system. Jacklich, a Lisle, Ill., native, is married to Krishni, whose family lives in nearby DeRidder and who can totally do better than him.
2018-19 Northwestern State Women’s Basketball Media Guide Southland Conference Champions: 1994-95 • 1998-99 • 2003-04 Southland Conference Tournament Champions: 2004 • 2014 • 2015
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