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KULL
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NORDMANN
Sport oversight | Fifth YEAR
ATHLETIC TRAINER | SECOND YEAR
COMPLIANCE | FOURTH YEAR
Scott Kull is in his fifth year as associate athletics director for External Operations. Kull came to TCU after spending eight years at Florida State University, where he held the position of associate athletics director for marketing and general manager of Seminole athletics marketing.
Assistant athletic trainer Junko Yazawa came to TCU from Long Island University in 2009. The Nagoya, Japan, native works primarily with the Horned Frogs track and field teams, attending to the teams' daily injury prevention and treatment.
At TCU, Kull is responsible for overseeing the marketing, ticket office and media relations operations, as well as serving as the liaison to ISP Sports Network. He is also the administrator for men's and women's golf, men's basketball and men's and women's track & field. Kull originally moved to Tallahassee in 1997 to become the director of athletics marketing. In 1999, Kull was named the general manager of Host Communications and director of sales for Seminole athletics marketing. At Florida State, Kull sold the first collegiate football sideline headset deal with Alltel and oversaw the creation of Seminole Village, which provides fans with interactive entertainment at home games as well as additional opportunities for advertisers. Kull also developed a plan to add a state-of-the-art video board/scoreboard to Florida State's $10 million baseball stadium renovation project. In Kullʼs last two years at FSU, the Sminolesʼ marketing staff earned 10 national sports marketing awards and was responsible for increasing sales revenues by landing millions of dollars in athletic advertising contracts. Kull has also worked in the athletics marketing departments at Florida, Ohio State and Georgia Tech. He earned his bachelor's degree in business and organizational communications from Otterbein College, where he played football and was on the track & field team. The native of New London, N.H., earned his master's degree in sport management from The Ohio State University.
In addition, she is also responsible for maintaining health records for incoming and returning athletes to ensure that they are physically cleared for NCAA competition. Yazawa brought a wealth of athletic training experience with her to Fort Worth. Prior to her stint at Long Island University in Brooklyn, Yazawa spent a year as an athletic training intern at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she worked with the Roadrunners' baseball team. Yazawa also spent the 2004 season with the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football League. Yazawa has served three stints as an athletic trainer with the U.S. Track and Field Team, most recently at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Yazawa also worked at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan. She also worked with the team in 2004 at the International Chiba Ekiden in Japan. In March 2004, she spent spring training in Peoria, Ariz., working with the San Diego Padres. Yazawa attended Texas State, where she also worked as a student athletic trainer for the football, track and field, tennis, cheerleading programs. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Mukogawa Women's University in Hyogo, Japan, in 1997. Yazawa completed her Master of Education degree in physical education at Texas State in 2002 and augmented that degree with another bachelor's degree in exercise sport science from Texas State in 2004. She holds licenses from the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification and the Texas Department of Health.
Andrea Nordmann joined the TCU staff in 2007 as associate athletics director for compiance. Nordmann came to the Horned Frogs after serving as the assistant director of compliance for financial aid at the University of Miami (Fla.). She spent six years with the Hurricanes. In June 2003, she was promoted from compliance coordinator to her current position. A 1993 graduate of Bowling Green State, Nordmann was a member of the Falconʼs womenʼs basketball team. She later played professionally in Belgium. After her playing career ended, Nordmann served two seasons as an assistant womenʼs basketball coach at Central Michigan. She then moved on to Eastern Michigan as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator from 1998-01. She received a Masterʼs of Business Administration from Bowling Green State in 1999.
Kim
JOHNSON SENIOR WOMAN ADMIN. | SECOND YEAR
Kim Johnson came to TCU in May 2008 as associate athletics director and senior woman administrator. Johnson joined the Horned Frogs after working the previous three years at the University of Alabama. She was the assistant director of compliance for two years before being promoted to assistant athletics director. With the Crimson Tide, Johnson's myriad of responsibilities included compliance, eligibility and overseeing the CHAMPS/Life Skills program. She was also the department liaison to the Office of Admissions and Housing and Residential Services. Prior to arriving in Tuscaloosa in May 2005, Johnson worked one year as the assistant director of compliance at Tulane University. Included among her duties were managing the admissions process for 15 sports and overseeing the financial aid requirements for the NCAA. Johnson is a 2001 graduate of Northwestern University, where she received a degree in communications. Upon her graduation, Johnson was hired by Northwestern as a compliance assistant. She worked three years at her alma mater before heading to Tulane. Johnson received a Master's of Science degree in human environmental science with a sport management emphasis from Alabama in December 2007.
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