CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference concluded its annual fall meetings today after individual and joint sessions attended by the league’s Athletic Directors (AD) and Faculty Athletic Representatives (FAR). and Senior Women Administrators (SWA). As part of the league’s ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, each school was also represented by an additional senior athletics administrator.
In addition to ACC Among the 15 current member institutions, the league’s newest members – the University of California at Berkeley (Cal), Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Stanford University – also participated in the meeting.
“It was an exceptional moment two days of ACC fall meetings with incredible excitement around what’s happening in this league right now – including the current fall seasons – and as we look to the future,” said the ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “We have tremendous leadership within our 18 member institutions, and as a conference we all remain committed to the collective priorities surrounding our student-athletes, our programs on a large scale and the overall success of the league. »
Joint sessions, attended by AD, FAR, SWAAthletic administrators and senior athletic administrators presented an agenda that included updates and presentations on the ACC Network, the future of college sports and the ACC’s CORE (Champions of Racial Equity) initiatives.
Collaboration meetings also includeddiscussions surrounding future regular season schedules and championships for the 28 sponsored sports. The new schedules align with the addition of our three new members starting in the 2024-2025 sports year.
ACC Student-Athletes Duke’s Piper Hampsch (field hockey), Pitt’s Chloe Minas (women’s soccer) and Virginia Tech’s Olivia Summiel (women’s basketball) attended meetings and spoke with ADs, FARs, SWAs and senior administrators of the sports. Hampsch is the chair of the ACC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), Minas is the vice chair of the ACC SAAC and Summiel is the ACC representative to the NCAA SAAC.
ACC Fall Meetings wThis is the first league-wide meeting to take place in Charlotte since the conference moved its offices to the Queen City in September 2023. As part of the meetings, the league office hosted a reception in its new headquarters located in the Bank of America at Legacy Union. Tour in downtown Charlotte.
Immediately after the meetings, dates and locations of 2024 ACC Winter Championships were announced. This includes Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships (February 20-24, 2024), Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships (February 22-24, 2024), Men’s and Women’s Fencing Championships (February 24-25, 2024) ) , Women’s Basketball Championship (March 6-10, 2024), Wrestling Championships (March 10, 2024), Men’s Basketball Championship (March 12-16, 2024), and ACC Gymnastics Championships (March 23, 2024 ).
As part of the CAC Introducing CORE, plans for a third annual Unity Tour will take place in Charleston, South Carolina. The tour is part of the ACC’s commitment to supporting student-athletes through meaningful educational opportunities, including in the area of social justice, and is part of the league’s social justice platform, ACC UNITE. The ACC’s first Unity Tour was a trip to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, in 2022, while last year’s tour took place in Washington, DC. Specific dates for this summer’s event will be announced at a later date.
Other topics covered at the meetings included, but were not limited to:
- ACC football and women’s and men’s basketball
- Business, Finance and Income Generation
- Legislation Federation
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Visit to the ACC unit
- Disney Network, ESPN and ACC
- The future of college sports
- NCAA Division I Council
- ACC Strategic Marketing and Branding Initiative
- ACC Olympic Sports Policies and Championships
