Austin Peay Vice President and Director of Athletics Gerald Harrison named Dr. Kristal McGreggor the Associate Director of Athletics for Student-Athlete Success, March 2023.
Dr. McGreggor most recently served as the Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Development at Yale, where she recruited and coached over 50 student-athletes for leadership positions and served as the liaison for five affinity groups to create an inclusive campus for all student-athletes. During her time in New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. McGreggor also conducted quantitative research with over 900 student-athletes to effectively assess the student-athlete experience and monitor the cultural pulse of the athletic department.
Before her time at Yale, Dr. McGreggor worked as an academic mentor in the Michigan athletics department where she conducted one-on-one strategy sessions to examine student-athletes' strengths and weaknesses and created a realistic, holistic support plan to improve their time management, reading, writing, test-taking, and note-taking skills.
Dr. McGreggor also served as a research associate at the Center For Race & Ethnicity in Sport in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was the lead researcher on four projects to document and examine Black consumers' Historically Black Colleges and University's (HBCU) sport consumption experience. Dr. McGreggor also spent two years as a graduate teaching assistant and five years as the HBCU Alliance Liaison for the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology.
Dr. McGreggor began her career in college athletics as an assistant coach and director of operations for the track and field team at Hampton, where she received her bachelor's degree in marketing in 2011 and her master's degree in sports administration in 2015. Dr. McGreggor earned a Ph.D. in sport management from Michigan in 2020.
